UniCredit & Universities Foundation

Welcome to UniCredit & Universities!

UniCredit & Universities Foundation launches the new on-line publication "UniCredit & Universities Working Paper Series", which gathers the best works produced by all UniCredit Group employees as well as those produced by outside economists such as the Foundation’s scholars and fellows. The Working Paper Series purpose is to promote the circulation of the research results, with the aim of stimulating comments and suggestions.

The first Working Papers are already online with the Top- 10 works selected by the Foundation’s Scientific Committee for the Best Paper Award competition, which was open to all Group employees and has just concluded. In addition, the series includes, the work of Manuel Mayer, winner of the Leopold Gratz Scholarship - 1^ edition.

All Group employees can contribute to enriching the UniCredit & Universities Working Paper Series, by sending their work to the Foundation. The works received will be selected by the Scientific Committee, on the basis of an assessment of the techniques employed and scientific value of the paper.

Papers must be written in English and may cover many different fields of interest , such as economics, banking, finance, political and social sciences. The subjects and methods of investigation chosen reflect the views of the authors, who are entirely responsible for the opinions expressed and the conclusions drawn, without committing Unicredit Group and the Foundation in any way. Papers must be sent via e-mail, both in pdf and word formats, to the following contacts: annalisa.aleati@unicreditgroup.eu and giannantonio.deroni@unicreditgroup.eu . In addition, the certifications for the privacy and the authorization to publish the work have to be attached to the e-mail. Both the forms have also to be sent via ordinary mail to the Foundation' address.

UniCredit & Universities Working Paper Series

2010