Associate Professor
Department of Economics
Via Monte Generoso, 71 - 21100 Varese - Italy
Tel: +39 (0)332 395526
Fax: +39 (0)332 395509
E-mail: cristiana.schena@uninsubria.it

1986 – Degree in Economics – Catholic University of Milan – Italy
1989 – Researcher in Catholic University of Milan – Italy
1998 – Associate Professor in University of Macerata – Italy
2002 – Confirmed Associate Professor at the University of Insubria of Varese-Como, Italy

Associate Professor in the area “Economics of Financial Intermediaries”.

Financial markets, banking groups and organizational issues, credit risk collateral, local banks in Italian banking system, corporate social responsibility and social accountability, non-profit organisations and related financial issues.

- Teaching activities related to the courses Financial Markets A and B and Firms financing

- Member of Scientific Board and Responsible of Master in “Ethics and Social Responsibility in Business and Professions”, organized by School of Economics and School of Law, University of Insubria, academic year 2004-05

- Deputy Director and member of Research Center for Ethics in Business and Social Responsibility (CreaRes), Department of Economics, University of Insubria

- Member of Advisory Board of training course “International tax issues in financial consulting”, organized by School of Economics, University of Insubria, with Banking Studies Centre of Vezia (Lugano, Switzerland)

- Member of Scientific Board of quarterly review “Credit Cooperation” since 2001

- C. Schena, Wholesale activities of British clearing banks groups: recent trends (1984-86) e prospects [IT], in F. Cesarini - M. Grillo - M. Monti - M. Onado (eds), Banca e mercato. Riflessioni su evoluzione e prospettive dell'industria bancaria in Italia, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1988 (pp. 769-833).

- C. Schena, Expansion strategies and management policies in a banks sample [IT], in R. Locatelli (ed), Il sistema finanziario tedesco. Problemi e prospettive nell'ottica dell'integrazione comunitaria, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1991 (text: pp. 149-244; appendix: pp. 282-299; 306-321; 324-335; 338-350; 354-360).

- C. Schena, Credit intermediaries and merchant banking activities [IT], in F. Cesarini (ed), La gestione degli istituti di credito speciale tra riforme e mercato, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1992 (pp. 151-196).

- C. Schena, Subordinated loans: an overview of the experience of Italian banks [EN], Institute of European Finance - Research Papers in Banking and Finance, no.2, Bangor, 1995.

- C. Schena, Banks’ capital management [IT], Il Mulino, Bologna, 1996.

- P. Barbetta - C. Schena (eds) Regulation and control over non profit organizations [IT], Il Mulino, Bologna, 2000.

- C. Schena (ed) Antitrust regulation and banks strategies [IT], Bologna, 2002 (300 pp.).

- C. Schena, The prospect rule of Confidi in bank-firm relationship: risk mitigation and informative support [IT], in Pogliaghi P. - Vandali W. - Meglio C. (a cura di), Basilea 2, IAS e nuovo diritto societario. L’impatto sulle banche e sul rapporto banca-impresa, Bancaria Editrice, Roma, 2004 (Chapter 13).