The advancement and diffusion of modeling techniques to capture and manage the new and different categories of risks in the social sciences is at the core of the activity of the AXA-Bocconi Chair in Risk.

This dedicated and permanent chair has been established thanks to a donation of the AXA Research Fund to Università Bocconi of an endowment of 2 million euro. The chair has been assigned to Massimo Marinacci, Professor in the Department of Decision Sciences of Bocconi University and IGIER Fellow, in recognition of his research work in the field of Decision Theory.

On June 12, 2012 Bocconi University hosted the Inaugural Lecture of the AXA-Bocconi Chair in Risk (click here for the complete program, as well as for the slides and videos of the lectures held by Itzhak Gilboa, Massimo Marinacci, and Thomas J. Sargent).

Lectio Inauguralis: The Beauty of Uncertainty

• Godefroy Beauvallet, Head, AXA Research Fund, Welcome and Introduction Video

• Andrea Rossi, CEO, AXA Assicurazioni

• Guido Tabellini, Rector, Bocconi University

• Massimo Marinacci, AXA-Bocconi Chair in Risk, The Beauty of Uncertainty Video Slides

• Thomas J. Sargent, Prof. of Economics, New York University, 2011 Nobel Prize Laureate, Risk, Uncertainty, Value and Public Policy Video Slides

• Itzhak Gilboa, AXA-HEC Chair for Decision Science, Retoric in Economics Video Slides

Round Table: Uncertainty in the Euro Zone

• Antonio Borges, Chairman, Bocconi International Advisory Council

• Eric Chaney, Chief Economist, AXA Group

• Alessandro Penati, Professor of Finance, Università Cattolica