Margherita Bottero is an Advisor in the Monetary Analysis Division, DG Economics, of the Bank of Italy.
She obtained a B.Sc. in Economics at the Università Bocconi in 2005, in 2006 a M.Sc. in philosophy of the Social Sciences at LSE and a PhD in Economics in 2011 from the Stockholm School of economics. After that, she joined the Bank of Italy, first as a research fellow and later (October 2012) as an advisor for the Monetary Analysis division, DG Economics.
Her research interests are in empirical banking, with a focus on credit dynamics and monetary policy.

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