The Center, established by Mario Monti in 1984, is dedicated to the memory of Paolo Baffi's high academic, professional and moral standards. He studied at Bocconi and was Governor of the Bank of Italy from 1975 to 1979. Starting from January 2008 the BAFFI Center - jointly promoted by Ettore Bocconi Department of Economics by the Angelo Sraffa Department of Law and by the Department of Policy Analysis and Public Management - has had a strongly interdisciplinary feature characterized by scholars of economics, law and finance.

The Centre undertakes thoretical and applied multi-disciplinary research and dissemination of knowledge about international markets, money and regulation.