Activity of scientific research
Credit and Banking History: research is devoted to the complex
network of credit institutions in early modern Bologna and aims at
identifying long term shared ethical features, from the
Monti di
pietà to saving banks, to the more recent forms of ethical
banks.
History of Corporate Finance: research is designed to explore
the role of the regional Mediocredito in supporting the
development of small and medium-sized firms in Emilia-Romagna
during the 1950s and 1960s.
History of Fund Raising and Non Profit Organizations: current
research studies the ethical motives of donors as well as how
funding of Italian charitable agencies evolved between 1860 and the
1950s.
History of Education
in relation to economic
development
