Federico Carlo Maria Malerba

Studying how financial knowledge becomes financial decisions, from classrooms to small businesses.

PhD Candidate in Business for Society (Finance track)
Research Fellow
University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy

Research interests: Financial literacy, financial education, household finance, entrepreneurial and alternative finance, financial well-being.

I study how people and entrepreneurs turn financial knowledge into financial decisions. My work treats financial knowledge as the foundation of financial capability and asks how self-efficacy and access to financial options help put it into practice.

I combine cross-country survey data from the OECD/INFE  with field interventions in Italian schools. My PhD defense is expected in early 2027.

Email: federico.malerba@unimib.it 

CV
LinkedIn: it.linkedin.com/in/federico-malerba
ORCID: 0009-0004-3083-4783