Agriculture as an Alternative Investment: The Status Quo and Future Perspectives

Stefano Gatti is the Antin IP Professor of Infrastructure Finance at the Department of Finance at Bocconi University (Italy). He has been the Director of the Full Time MBA at SDA Bocconi School of Management (Italy). His main area of research is corporate finance and investment banking. He has published in these areas including publications in the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Financial Management, the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance and the European Journal of Operational Research. Professor Gatti has acted as a consultant to several financial and non-financial institutions and for the Italian Ministry of the Economy, the Financial Stability Board, The Asian Development Bank, The InterAmerican Development Bank and the OECD/Group of G20. He is financial advisor of the pension fund of health care professions, member of the compliance risk committee of Deutsche Bank and member of the Board of Directors and board of auditors of Italian industrial and financial corporations.

Carlo Chiarella is the Director of the Department of Finance and Accounting at CUNEF Universidad in Madrid (Spain) and a Fellow at the BAFFI CAREFIN Centre for Applied Research on International Markets, Banking, Finance and Regulation of the Bocconi University (Italy). His research focuses on corporate financing and investment decisions, especially in the contexts of capital markets, and mergers and acquisitions. He has authored several articles in these areas including publications in the Journal of Financial Econometrics, the Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, and the International Review of Economics and Finance.

Vitaliano Fiorillo is a Lecturer in Operations and Technology at SDA Bocconi School of Management (Italy). He is a Contract Professor of Management at Bocconi University. At SDA Bocconi he is the Director of AGRI Lab and Director of the Agribusiness Management Development Program. His research activities focus on supply chain management and sustainability with a particular focus on Agribusiness.