Elena Carletti is Professor of Finance at Bocconi University. She is also at the Florence School of Banking and Finance at the European University Institute, is a member of Board of Directors of Unicredit SpA and a member of the Advisory Scientific Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB).
Her interests are in the areas of financial intermediation, financial crises, financial regulation, corporate governance, financial development, industrial organization and competition policy. She has published numerous articles in leading economic journals, including Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Accounting and Economics, and Journal of Financial Intermediation.