Alumni 2014/2015
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Business Analyst at Invitalia
Stefania Almonte
Thesis: "Assessing the predictive ability of financial variables through a mixed frequency approach: some evidence from the Italian case" Supervisor: Prof. Gianluca Cubadda
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Market Risk Officer at ABN AMRO Bank N.V.
Raffaella Arnone
Thesis: "Econometric analysis of Value-at-Risk and Expected Shortfall" Supervisor: Prof. Tommaso Proietti
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Manager at EY, Luxembourg
Alessandro Avoli
Thesis: "The CDS spread and spread charge determinants in the US Market" Supervisor: Prof. Marianna Brunetti
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Administrative Assistant at Moore Stephens, Honduras
Douglas Baggia Zuniga
Thesis: "Succession Process In Family Owned Businesses in Honduras: Incorporating new young members" Supervisor: Prof. Luca Gnan
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Credit Analyst at AlmavivA
Salvatore Barrano
Thesis: "The Implied volatility as a risk predictor: the case of Brexit" Supervisor: Prof. Gianni Nicolini
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Freelance
Laura Carnevali
Thesis: "An Empirical Analysis of the Italian attitude toward Mortagage Refinancing" Supervisor: Prof. Rocco Ciciretti
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Investment Professional at Gardant, Rome
Lorenzo Cordiner
Thesis: "Statistical Arbitrage with Index Options: An Empirical Study of the European Option Market" Supervisor: Prof. Marianna Brunetti
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SAP BPC Consultant at Engineering Ingegneria Informatica Spa
Alessandro Cortesini
Thesis: "Test on Fama French factor on Hong Kong Singapore and India stock market" Supervisor: Prof. Rocco Ciciretti
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Risk Data Management at Cassa Centrale Group
Consuelo Giacomazzi
Thesis: "Optimization of CFDs portfolio implementing SMA technique" Supervisor: Prof. Gianni Nicolini
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Financial Advisor at Poste Italiane, Rome
Stefano Iasenzio
Thesis: "A Vector Heterogeneous Autoregressive Index Model for Realized Volatility: some empirical results for European Equity Indexes" Supervisor: Prof. Gianluca Cubadda
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Cross-boarding fashion luxury department at GENERTEC ITALIA SRL, Milan
Xuyang Jiao
Thesis: "Are There Tournaments in Mutual Funds?" Supervisor: Prof. Stefano Herzel
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Associate Director at Fitch Ratings, London
Francesco Luzzi
Thesis: "News related to macroeconomic variable as risk factors on equity returns: evidence from Asian markets" Supervisor: Prof. Rocco Ciciretti
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Financial Economics Research at SFI Swiss Finance Institute
Andrea Maino
Thesis: "Time Varying Dependence and Panic Copula model for Risk Measurements" Supervisor: Prof. Stefano Herzel
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Data Science Product Manager at Admiral Group, Rome
Luka Petrilli
Thesis: "Undirected Graphs for Large Scale Portfolios of European Stocks" Supervisor: Prof. Tommaso Proietti
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Cost Controller at Experian
Denitza Petrova
Thesis: "On Psychological Barriers and Price Behaviors: Evidence from Eastern European Markets" Supervisor: Prof. Gianni Nicolini
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Vice President, Equity Quant at Citi, London
Pier Francesco Procacci
Thesis: "Flexible Bayesian Framework in Portfolio Construction: Entropy Pooling" Supervisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
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Business Data Analyst at Intesa Sanpaolo, Turin
Antonio Riccardo
Thesis: "Vector Heterogeneous Autoregressive Index Model: an application on NYSE Major Banks' assets" Supervisor: Prof. Gianluca Cubadda
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Independent Junior Portfolio Manager
Francesco Rinaldi
Thesis: "Portfolio construction and valuation: machine learning techniques applied to quantitative trading system" Supervisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
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Sales Manager at Schroders, Milan
Christian Romaniello
Thesis: "Central Couterparties: A numerical implementation of the default waterfall" Supervisor: Prof. Stefano Herzel
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Global Functions Controller at Angelini Pharma
Simone Santurelli
Thesis: "The impact of reputation on banks liquidity risk: a study of Italian listed banks" Supervisor: Prof. Vincenzo Farina
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Senior Analytics Translator at ConTe.it - Admiral Group, Rome
Simone Sardo
Thesis: "Sovereign CDS: how the default probability influence the market" Supervisor: Prof. Gianni Nicolini
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Data Analyst at PRA Group, London
Roberto Scalia
Thesis: "Forecasting Real Estate Prices" Supervisor: Prof. Tommaso Proietti
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PhD Candidate at SFI Swiss Finance Institute
Korsaye Sofonias Alemu
Thesis: "Artificial Neural Networks for Implied Volatility Surface: Construction and Dynamics" Supervisor: Prof. Cesare Robotti
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Quoting Manager Lead at GTT
Bilyana Svetlomirova
Thesis: "Cryptocurrency: Nature and Features" Supervisor: Prof. William De Ascaniis
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Buyer at SILATECH SRL, Rome
Gessica Taraborelli
Thesis: "The management of a real estate fund" Supervisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
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Institutional Client Service & Sales Support at Banca Finnat Euramerica
Guglielmo Verneau
Thesis: "Loss estimation in structured credit products" Supervisor: Prof. Stefano Herzel