Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance

Mission

The Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance produces world-class research, with an emphasis on policy relevant topics. It also aims to improve the quality of higher education in economics and finance in Italy by organizing advanced graduate level courses, high-quality seminars and conferences.

Overview

The Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF) is an independent research institute, created in 2008 by the Bank of Italy. EIEF realizes the idea, formulated in the mid ‘90 by Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, then President of EIEF’s predecessor, the Ente Luigi Einaudi, of transforming the latter into a center with resident researchers, producing frontier research and high quality training.

EIEF produces world-class research in economics and finance, generates ideas which are useful in the policy debate, and creates an environment that can help reverse Italy’s “brain drain” by both attracting strong foreign scholars and inducing the best Italian scholars trained abroad to return to Italy. EIEF also aims to strengthen higher education in Italy co-operating with Italian universities. Teaching activities were initially focused on graduate research-oriented courses and on supervision of selected students enrolled in various existing PhD programs. Since 2017 EIEF launched, in cooperation with LUISS, the Rome Masters in Economics - RoME - a challenging two-year graduate program (Laurea Magistralis) addressed to a small group of high potential selected students. 

EIEF offers a working environment that adopts the standards of, and strives to be competitive with, the best international academic institutions. The result is an intellectually rich and dynamic environment, free from many of the bureaucratic constraints that burden the Italian academia, able to pay competitive salaries, strictly meritocratic in its selection criteria, and strongly research oriented.