The Centre, 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 Paolo Baffi Centre - jointly promoted by Ettore Bocconi Department of Economics and by the Angelo Sraffa Department of Law - has had a strongly interdisciplinary feature characterized by scholars of economics, law and finance.

The Centre undertakes thoretical and applied interdisciplinary research and dissemination of knowledge about monetary economics and financial regulation on a national and international scale.