Matteo Benetton
Assistant Professor | Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, UNITED STATES
Areas of Expertise (6)
Regulation in Lending Markets
Competition in Lending Markets
Household Finance
Mortgage Product Design
Housing Market
Mortgage Markets
About
Matteo Benetton is an assistant professor in the Finance Group at Berkeley Haas. His work centers on the intersection between competition in the lending market, mortgage product design, and regulation.
Education (4)
London School of Economics: PhD, Economics
London School of Economics: Master of Research, Economics
Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies: MS, Economics
University of Pisa: BS, Economics
Links (1)
Honors & Awards (4)
EARIE Paul Geroski Prize for the most significant policy contribution
August 2017
First CEPR-TFI Household Finance Best Student Paper Award
May 2017
Becker-Friedman Institute Macro-Financial Modelling Dissertation Fellowship
2016
LSE Student Union Teaching Excellence Award
Top 1% in student feedback 2014
Positions Held (1)
At Haas since 2018
2018 - present: Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business
Media Appearances (5)
Cash cow or climate killer? Finger Lakes power plant at heart of bitcoin mining debate
Daily Messenger online
2022-02-25
Bitcoin mining is driving a wedge through a small town in the Finger Lakes region of New York. A paper co-authored by Associate Professor Adair Morse, the Soloman P. Lee Chair in Business Ethics, and Assistant Professor Matteo Benetton, estimates that the power demands of cryptocurrency mining operations in upstate New York push up annual electric bills by about $165 million for small businesses and $79 million for individuals — with little or no local economic benefit. “The profits do not stay local,” Benetton said. “Bitcoin mining profits can be moved from upstate New York to Italy or Colombia or China in a second.”
Will Bitcoin Miners Leave You in the Cold This Winter?
The Washington Post online
2021-10-06
A study co-authored by Asst. Prof. Matteo Benetton estimated the burden placed on a community from a cryptominer operations in upstate New York. He said the estimated benefits of more taxes and jobs created paled in comparison to extra power costs, adding up to an estimated $165 million for small businesses and $79 million for individuals annually.
Why You’re Paying Bitcoin’s Energy Bill
Chicago Booth Review online
2021-09-14
The vast computing power needed to create new bitcoins consumes enormous amounts of electricity and has driven up energy bills for residents and businesses, according to research co-authored by Assoc. Prof. Adair Morse, the Soloman P. Lee Chair in Business Ethics, Asst. Prof. Matteo Benetton, and Giovanni Compiani, now at Chicago Booth. That could mean that crypto mining could cost residential and business ratepayers around $1 billion a year in the U.S. alone.
All The New Professors At The Leading Business Schools
Poets and Quants online
2018-12-19
This year Berkeley Haas welcomed new assistant professors Anastassia Fedyk, Matteo Benetton, and Giovanni Compiani.
At the age of 29, an Italian researcher becomes a professor at Berkeley, the California University
Corriere Quotidiano (Italian link) online
2018-08-16
Matteo Benetton will join Berkeley Haas as an assistant professor. He has a PhD from LSE.
Selected Papers & Publications (3)
Leverage Regulation and Market Structure: A Structural Model of the UK Mortgage Market
Working Paper
Matteo Benetton
2018
Competition and the Pass-Through of Unconventional Monetary Policy: Evidence from TLTROs
Working paper
Matteo Benetton & Davide Fantino
2018 A previous version appeared as Bank of Italy Working Paper No. 1187.
The Role of Prepayment Penalties in Mortgage Loans
Journal of Banking and Finance
Matteo Benetton, Andrea Beltratti, Alessandro Gavazza
September 2017
Teaching (1)
Finance
UGBA-103: Introduction to Finance
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