%0 Journal Article %T A formula for the Euler characteristic of $\bar{\cal M}_{2,n}$ %A G. Bini %A G. Gaiffi %A M. Polito %J Mathematics %D 1998 %I arXiv %X In this paper we compute the generating function for the Euler characteristic of the Deligne-Mumford compactification of the moduli space of smooth n-pointed genus 2 curves. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/math/9806048v1