Vittoria Cerasi received her undergraduate degree in Economics from Bocconi University (Milan) and obtained her PhD in economics from the London School of Economics (London, UK) in 1996. Her research is in the area of  the microeconomics of banking, industrial organization and banking regulation.

She has been visiting researcher at the Financial Markets Group (LSE), at IDEI in Toulouse and recently, visiting scholar at BIS. She has published in the European Economic Review, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Financial Stability and Small Business Economics.