Caterina Cruciani received her PhD in Economics from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice in 2013 and joined its Department of Management in 2018 in the Financial Markets and Institutions research group. In collaboration with different members of her professional community, her research has focused on trust and financial advisory, behavioural biases in financial decision-making, and relationship lending and access to credit of opaque firms. She has more recently bridged her interest for behavioural decision-making with sustainable finance, to understand if and how these two dimensions interact and shape the incentives of market players. One line of upcoming research regards the role of women in the financial professions, building upon her research on trust in financial advisory. She currently leads the local unit of a Horizon project focussing on the role of trust in social media, where she can extensively use the experimental methods that characterise her approach to empirical research (surveys, lab and online experiments) and work in a vibrant, international and stimulating group of scholars from different disciplines. Strong believer in the importance of intellectual exchange and fruitful interactions to progress in life and not just in academia, she is enthusiastic about being part of the YLA community.
