SUERF Policy Brief When They Care about It: European Politicians,

European Politicians and Financial Education: Financial Instability Matters With the goal to use political voices on financial education as a metric for activism, the first question to address is the identification of both the sender and the devise (Ferrara et al. [...] It is a matter of fact, after the adoption of the Lisbon Treaty (2009), the EP has been even transformed in a co-legislator, influencing the legislative process both at the European and national levels (Burn 2021). [...] The exploration could be extended applying the “sentiment analysis”, as well as the more complicated “word embedding.” Finally, the results obtained using the speeches of MEP as our metric can be expanded in two directions, exploring on the one side the speeches of the Members of national Parliaments, and using on the other side the media coverage as a proxy for the political voice. [...] (2021), “In the Eye of the Storm? The European Parliament, the Environment and the EU’s Crisis, Journal of European Integration, 41(3), 311-327. [...] In the same University he has been Head of the Department of Economics (2008-2010, 2013-2017), and from 2018 he is Director of the Baffi Centre on Economics, Finance and Regulation, while from 2023 he is Director of the Area on Economics, Politics and Decision Sciences in the SDA Bocconi Business School.