Thesis titles
MSc in Finance and Banking Theses Titles, by Academic Year
2024
Luigi Barbieri, Comparative Performance Analysis of Sustainable and Conventional Funds, Advisor: Prof. Rocco Ciciretti
Riccardo Battistelli, Drawdown Analysis, Advisor: Prof. Tommaso Proietti
Riccardo Cammarata, Bitcoin Impact on the World's Economic Landscape, Advisor: Prof. Nicoletta Ciocca
Aleksander Campus, Credit Losses in Peer-to-Peer Lending: A quantile Regression Approach, Advisor: Prof. Alessio Farcomeni
Carlo Cascini, State-Space Model for Pairs Trading: Kalman Filter Approach, Advisor: Prof. Tommaso Proietti
Matteo Colavita, Optimizing Italian Home-Biased Portfolios: A Black-Litterman Perspective on Italian Investor's Preference, Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
Anna Cursi, IPO and Covid-19 Pandemic: The Influence on the Underpricing Phenomenon in the Italian Market, Advisor: Prof. Vincenzo Farina
Giorgia D'Alessandro, The Impact Of Globalisation On Portfolio Diversification, Advisor, Prof. Ugo Pomante
Aurora D'Elia, Optimal Consumption, Investment and Life Insurance: Sensitivity Analysis and Model Misspecification, Advisor: Prof. Katia Colaneri
Nicolas De Matteo, The Impact of AI on Firms: An Event Study on Abnormal Returns Following AI Investment Announcements, Advisor: Prof. Vincenzo Farina
Andrea Di Guida, Covariance Matrix Estimatio: A Comparative Analysis, Advisor: Prof. Tommaso Proietti
Ulderico Di Tullio, Using A Penalized Forecast-Combination And Weighted-Quantile Approach To Forecast Risk Measures, Advisor: Prof. Tommaso Proietti
Fabiola Esposito, Forecasting Electricity Prices for the Italian Market : A Comparison of Statistical Methods and Machine Learning Algorithms, Advisor: Prof. Tommaso Proietti
Jacopo Failoni, A New Benchmark Interest Rate: From LIBOR to SOFR, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Herzel
Lorenzo Gallina, Multiple Yield-Curve Construction Using Quantlib, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Herzel
Cristiana Dana Ghidic, Revolutionizing Finance Through Artificial Intelligence: A Catalyst for Unprecedented Change in Asset Management, Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
Dan Joan Ilau, Portfolio Construction in an Increasingly ESG-Aware World, Advisor: Prof. ugo Pomante
Sadaf Khaghani, Analysis of Sharpe Ratio via Residual-Based Nodewise Regression Approach, Advisor: Prof. Tommaso Proietti
Andrea Lupascu, Assessing the Effects of ESG Scores on M&A Transactions: An Event Study Approach, Advisor: Prof. Rocco Ciciretti
Niyamaddin Mammadov, Cognitive Biases in Mbs Risk Perception: Insights From the 2008 Crisis Through the Lens of Behavioral Finance, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Herzel
Alessandro Cosimo Manca, Interest Rate Risk Management, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Herzel
Leonardo Marsano, Bond Portfolio Strategies: A Comparative Analysis of iShares iBonds, Traditional Bond ETFs and Individual Bonds Using the Black-Litterman Model, Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
Francesco Paolo Matera, Liquidity Premia in the European Sovereign Bond Market, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Herzel
Francesca Paesano, New Regulatory Frontiers and Legal Challenges of the Kill Function and Scenario Analysis in High-Frequency Trading, Advisor: Prof. Nicoletta Ciocca
Valeria Palombi, Realized Volatility Modeling with Time-Varying Dependencies, Advisor: Prof. Alessandro Casini
Francesca Passeri, Performance Comparison Between Sfdr Article 9 and Article 6 Funds, Advisor: Prof. Rocco Ciciretti
Sara Patrizi, ESG Rating and Regulation: EU vs US Fund Performance, Advisor: Prof. Rocco Ciciretti
Leonardo Pavone, Empirical Analysis of M&A Transactions: Evidence from the European Market, Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
Vincenzo Perrone, Endogenous Sampling in Financial Econometrics, Advisor: Prof. Davide Pirino
Francesca Rossetti, The Impact Of ESG Engagement On Downside Risk: Evidence From Norges Bank Investment Management's Portfolio Companies, Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
Davide Ruggeri, Does Corporate Social Responsibility Influence the Mean of Payment in M&A? Empirical Evidence from Asia Pacific, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Caiazza
Faezeh Safari Kooshali, Comparative Analysis of Green Bond Performance: Insights Into Conventional Bonds and Equity Markets, Advisor: Prof. Alessandro Ramponi
Lorenzo Saieva, Infrastructure-A Cushion Against Volatility, Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
Giulia Tagliafierro, Emerging Markets Opportunities in an ESG Funds Framework, Advisor: Prof. Rocco Ciciretti
Alexander Toernqvist, Generative Adversarial Networks: A Novel Approach to Predictive Modelling in Finance, Advisor: Prof. Alessandro Ramponi
2023
Carlo Emanuele Autiero, Robust Portfolio Optimisation Under Sparse Contamination, Advisor: Prof. Alessio Farcomeni
Vladyslava Bab'yak, Caviar and Cross-Sectional Quantile Regression Models to Assess Risk in SEP500 Sectors, Advisor: Prof. Tommaso Proietti
Francesco Bianchi, An Analysis of Small Businesses Loan Dynamics Using Inverse Probability Weighting, Advisor: Prof. Alesso Farcomeni
Chiara Cammeo, Arms Trade Network Analysis on R, Advisor: Prof. Alessio Farcomeni
Karin Carlsson, Covered Call on An Index - A Comparative Study of Two Strategies, Advisor: Prof. Shmuel Baruch
Laura Colozzi, The Put-Call Parity Mispricing: An Event Study, Advisor: Prof. Shmuel Baruch
Matteo Cosentino, Retail Investors Against Wall Street: The Role of Reddit in the Gamesstop Short Squeeze, Advisor: Prof. Alessio Farcomeni
Maddalena De Vivo, Factor Mimicking Portfolio and ESG Factor, Advisor: Prof. Alessandro Ramponi
Leonardo Di Filippo, Rough Heston Model: Montecarlo Simulation of the Volatility Surface Dynamics, Advisor: Prof. Alessandro Ramponi
Bruno Di Jeso, Fractional Shares and the Split Minimum, Advisor: Prof. Shmuel Baruch
Sabina Di Maro, Network Analysis and Vulnerability Indexes in Socially Responsible Investments, Advisor: Prof. Rocco Ciciretti
Claudia Esposito, Experimental Analysis of Emotional Engagement in Thematic Fund Advertisements: A Neuroeconomic Perspective, Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
Lucia Formisano, What Role Has the Festival Sector in the Global Economy, What Meaning Has in Our Personal Lives an In-depth Analysis: Elrow and Cinema Festival, Advisor: Prof. Maura Mezzetti
Federica Fubelli, Financial Attitudes of Italian Households and Their Determinants, Advisor: Prof. Maura Mezzetti
Simone Genna, Climate-related Risk and Ngfs Scenarios: A Financial Perspective on CO2 Emissions Correlations, Advisor: Prof. Maura Mezzetti
Leonid Grebinka, The Role and Performance of Accelerators in the Munich Startup Ecosystem, Advisor: Prof. Vincenzo Farina
Simone Grugni, Using Asset Prices to Predict Bank Defaults: A Quantitative Approach, Advisor: Prof. Shmuel Baruch
Ludvig HillenFjärd, Enhancing Forex Trading Strategies: An Investigation into the Integration of Technical Analysis and Portfolio Management, Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
Riccardo Mancini, An In-Depth Analysis of One-Factor Affine Term Structure Models: Cross-Sectional and Time Series Calibration of Vasicek and CIR Models, Advisor: Prof.Stefano Herzel
Angelo Mangieri, Sovereign Bond Yields: Climate Risk Impact, Advisor: Prof. Rocco Ciciretti
Fabio Marchese, The Impact of the Covid-19 Vaccine Announcement on Pfizer's Stock Price: A Single Firm Single Event Study, Advisor: Prof. Shmuel Baruch
Lorenzo Marcolini, Investment Strategies for Young Adults: Building a Dynamic Asset Allocation Model Using Genetic Algorithms, Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
Mattia Marletta, Merton's Portfolio Problem: Does Portfolio Rebalancing Really Affect Investor's Utility?, Advisor: Prof. Shmuel Baruch
Noemi Pandolfi, The Relationship Between Spot and Futures Prices of the EU Ets Market Focusing On Volatility Spillover and Dynamic Correlation, Advisor: Prof. Gianni Nicolini
Andrea Pasquali, Exploring the Relationship Between ESG Disagreement and Stock Returns. An Empirical Analysis, Advisor: Prof. Rocco Ciciretti
Anastasiia Polynskaia, ESG Scores and Acquisition Premia, Advisor: Prof. Shmuel Baruch
Giulia Proietti, Thematic Investments: Challenges and Perspectives for Asset Management, Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
Tommaso Roncacci, From the London Interbank Offered Rate to Risk-Free Rates: An Overview of LIBOR Success, Scandals, and Replacement Inside the Derivatives and Loan Markets, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Herzel
Alessandra Rusu, Financial Drawdown and CO2 Emissions in Sustainable Investments, Advisor: Prof. Rocco Ciciretti
Alina Mihaela Sandu, Econometric Investigation of Volatility Clustering and Asymmetry Effects on the Italian Stock Market, Advisor: Prof. Shmuel Baruch
Lucia Sansone, An Empirical Study of the Weekend Effect in Stock Markets, Advisor: Prof. Lucia Sansone
Sara Scollo, Gender Inequality in the Italian Academia, Advisor: Prof. Maura Mezzetti
Allesandra Tallarico, The Effect of Uncertainty on Firms Investments in Green Technology, Advisor: Prof.Katia Colaneri
Chiara Tenerini, Optimal Portfolio Design for European Regulatory Compliance: Exploring Genetic Algorithms Techniques, Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
Francesco Torlai, Legislative Impacts and Quantitative Insights: Investigating EU ESG Benchmarks for Sustainable Investing, Advisor: Prof. Maura Mezzetti
Cristiano Vasallucci, An Empirical Analyses of the Nordic Banking Sector, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Caiazza
Khaled Youssef, An Empirical Analysis of the Put/Call Ratio Sentiment Indicator, Advisor: Prof. Shmuel Baruch
Valerio Zarrelli, Modelling Rough Volatility: The Rough Heston Model, Advisor: Prof. Alessandro Ramponi
2022
Mehran Akbari, Performance assessment of dimension reduction techniques in market prediction in cross section of present values, Advisor: Prof. Gianluca Cubadda
Massimo Ziad Ammar, A Look into Variance Ratio: Are All Markets Becoming More Efficient with Time?, Advisor: Prof. Tommaso Proietti
Emanuel Andrei, Swap spread arbitrage strategy: a new approach using the Secured Overnight Financing Rate, Advisor: Stefano Herzel
Roberto Bauer, Machine Learning applied to dynamic Hedging strategies: a comparison between ANNs and linear regression models., Advisor: Prof. Alessandro Ramponi
Andrea Caputo, The Socially Responsible Funds, Advisor: Rocco Ciciretti
Stefano Caputo, Bitcoin Trading Strategy on Twitter Sentiment Analysis, Advisor: Prof. Vincenzo Farina
Andrei Carp, Machine Learning applications to predict stock prices based on technical indicators, Advisor: Prof. Alessandro Ramponi
Lorenzo Cianciullo, Investing in corporate socially responsible activities: a robust analysis of deletion event effects, Advisor: Rocco Ciciretti
Maria Ciobanu, Behaviour of Healthcare Index: A GARCH forecasting approach to predict volatility, Advisor: Prof. Tommaso Proietti
Domenico Roberto Curciarello, Does Bitcoin hedge inflation risk? A multivariate time series analysis, Advisor: Prof. Tommaso Proietti
Valerio D'Agostini, The Hard Landing of the Chinese Shadow Banking: how China’s printing machine and financial system practices may overwhelm its and other countries’ economy., Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
Michele Dimartino, Legal and Ethical characteristics of Sukuk to be a Sharia Compliant Financial Instrument, Advisor: Prof. Amalia Diurni
Diana Andrea Dudas, Are Cat Bonds better than Reinsurance? A numerical study., Advisor: Prof. Katia Colaneri
Thiago Ely Tatsch, Does Alternative Data Improve Financial Forecasting? A series of cases, Advisor: Prof. Vincenzo Farina
Luciana Fauceglia, Portfolio selection with ESG score: a new "optimization" approach to include investors' ESG preferences, Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
Fakhteh Ghalami, Mean-Variance efficient portfolio and skewed assets performance comparison, Advisor: Prof. Shmuel Baruch
Mihael Huzun, Portfolio Performance Analysis: Combining Cryptocurrencies with Traditional Assets, Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
Fatemeh Khazaei, The Effect of Knowledge and Experience of Board of Companies on Mergers and Acquisitions, Advisor: Prof. Rocco Ciciretti
Eduard Andrei Kiss, Forecasting Exchange Rates: An Empirical Analysis, Advisor: Prof. Marianna Brunetti
Domenico Leone, Central bank, monetary policy and interest rates, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Herzel
Francesco Milani, The Integration of ESG Factors into the Investment Process: an application in the Portfolio Construction Model, Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
Mirabela Cristina Niscoveanu, Can ESG investing do well while doing good? An analysis of the ESG European funds from 2000 to nowadays, Advisor: Prof. Rocco Ciciretti
Marco Piazza, Can the performance measurement influence mutual funds' valuation?, Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
Davide Radicioni, The Black-Litterman Model: Rigorous Review, Implementation and Application to the Market, Advisor: Prof. Shmuel Baruch
Sebastian Richter, Neural Network assisted Option Pricing under Rough Volatility: An Empirical Validation., Advisor: Prof. Alessandro Ramponi
Paiman Sobati, GANs and their application in option pricing, Advisor: Prof. Alessandro Ramponi
Gianluca Varrenti, Correlation between assets during market down phases: analysis on the Dow Jones Index, Advisor: Prof. Shmuel Baruch
2021
Assel Altynbek, European Cooperative Banking Group, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Caiazza
Riccardo Angeli, The Covid-19 Effect on Oil Spot and Futures Market and Potential Hedging Strategies, Advisor: Prof. Gianni Nicolini
Nils Anton Ludvig Anner, Explaining Credit Default Swap Spreads with the Equity Volatility and Jump Risks of Individual Firms, Advisor: Prof. Alessandro Ramponi
Masumeh Babaei, Empirical Analysis of the Cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin Price Dynamics, Advisor: Prof. Vincenzo Farina
Riccardo Bruno, Electricity Price Forecasting with Unobserved Components Models, Advisor: Prof. Tommaso Proietti
Giorgia Carena, Stochastic models for simultaneous trading in the lit market and a dark pool: a numerical study, Advisor: Prof. Katia Colaneri
Asia Ciaramella, Hedge Funds and Mutual Funds Performance: A Comparison Analysis, Advisor: Prof. Rocco Ciciretti
Gaetano Cipriani, Volatility Estimation in Presence of Microstructure Noise, Advisor: Prof. Davide Pirino
Lavinia Del Treste, The announcement effect of green bond issuers on their listed share price, Advisor: Prof. Rocco Ciciretti
Paola Di Stasi, Black Litteman Model and Risk Budgeting, Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
Valentina Federici, Different Trends in SRI: The Case of Europe and Usa, Advisor: Prof. Rocco Ciciretti
Michela Fiore, Reinforcement Learning for Automatic Option Hedging, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Herzel
Gianluca Franceschini, The Effectiveness of Weather Derivatives as Risk Mitigating Tool in Wine Industry, Advisor: Prof. Gianni Nicolini
Emanuele Gatta, ESG Portfolios Premia: A Comparison Between Risks and Characteristics, Advisor: Prof. Rocco Ciciretti
Omar Gaye, ESG Factors and Performance in Portfolio Construction: Energy and Power Utility Sector, Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
Saeid Hosseinzadehfarahami, On Rough Fractional Stochastic Volatility andthe Turbocharging Monte Carlo simulation for rBergomi model, Advisor: Prof. Alessandro Ramponi
Alessandra Iacobone, A Comparison Between Italian Health System and American Health System, Advisor: Prof. Maura Mezzetti
Mina Ibrahim Tawfik Ibrahim, CFD Trading in Financial Markets, Advisor: Prof. Gianni Nicolini
Alessio Incelli, An Advanced Application of Black-Litterman Model: The EBL Approach, Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
Antonio Litterio, Detection of Structural Breaks in HAR Model, Advisor: Prof. Gianluca Cubadda
Daniele Maggio, Corporate Reputation: a Systematic ESG Risk Approach, Advisor: Prof. Rocco Ciciretti
Zaur Mammadov, Implied Volatility Surface: Difference Between Heston Model and SVI Parametrization, Advisor: Prof. Alessandro Ramponi
Daniele Martinelli, Reinforcement Learning for Trading Applications: The Q-Learning Algorithm, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Grassi
Laura Morrocchi, Risk-Return Optimization and ESG Opportunities in the Current Financial Market: an Empirical Study on Model Portfolios, Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
Francesca Romana Multari, Quantile Dependence and Directional Predictability in Economic and Financial Time Series, Advisor: Prof. Tommaso Proietti
Tiara Fatin Binti Nasip, A Comparison of Methods for Sentiment Analysis of Private Companies: The Case of Recent Tweets about Tesla Inc., Advisor: Prof. Alessio Farcomeni
Alberto Noe’, The Determinants of Italian Households Financial Planning, Advisor: Prof. Rocco Ciciretti
Saeedeh Ostovari, Investigating the Statistical Properties of the Hurst Exponent Estimator of Rough Volatility Model, Advisor: Prof. Tommaso Proietti
Dario Piperni, Green Minus Black: The Risk-adjusted Performance of SRI, Advisor: Prof. Vincenzo Farina
Meruyert Ramazanova, A review of volatility estimators for financial assets, Advisor: Prof. Davide Pirino
Matteo Ronci, Volatility Analysis of Bitcoin and Ethereum Before and After the Introduction of Futures, Advisor: Prof. Gianni Nicolini
Roberto Rosina, The Determinants of Financial Derivatives Use: an Empirical Analysis From European Banking Industry, Advisor: Prof. Gianni Nicolini
Edoardo Sabetta, Doing Well While Doing Good? A Performance Comparison Analysis of European Mutual Funds in Pandemic Times, Advisor: Prof. Vincenzo Farina
Flaminia Sarrantonio, Power market fundamental approach to study the dynamics of the electricity sector in Latin America, Advisor: Prof. Rocco Ciciretti
Roberta Maria Segatore, Estimation of a Structural Model for Stale Prices, Advisor: Prof. Davide Pirino
Noemi Viggiano, Does it matter to be green? The Effect of Green Investment on Corporate Behavior, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Herzel
Mario Viola, Tactical Asset Allocation : A Machine Learning Approach, Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
Aizhan Yermekova, Determinants of M&A premium: evidence from quantile regression analysis, Advisor: Prof. Alessio Farcomeni
2020
Faranak Alikhah, Time Reversibility of Financial Time Series, Advisor: Prof. Tommaso Proietti
Francesco Apa Eduardo, Integration between ethical activity and economic dynamics: the banking sector, Advisor: Prof. Amalia Diurni
Francesco Berretti, The Determinants of Italian Household Financial Planning, Advisor: Prof. Rocco Ciciretti
Andrea Bonelli, Forecasting Realized Volatility: Long vs Short Memory Processes, Advisor: Prof. Gianluca Cubadda
Ana Botorce, Corporate Social Responsibility in Canadian Firms, Advisor: Prof. Rocco Ciciretti
Marco Bruno, The determinants of the Reverse Takeovers: the case of Europe, Advisor: Prof. Vincenzo Farina
Andrea Bulla, Venture capital investments in cyber-security startups: a social network approach, Advisor: Prof. Vincenzo Farina
Veronica Cannas, What happens to options when the underlying returns are predictable?, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Herzel
Giulia Carbotti, A regime-switching cointegration approach to pairs trading, Advisor: Prof. Gianluca Cubadda
Andrea Carcani, Scenario analysis for the energy sector’s transition risk in the context of climate change, Advisor: Matteo Bissiri
Paolo Cianci, ESG rating and financial performance during the SARS-CoV-2, Advisor: Prof. Rocco Ciciretti
Antonio Colasanto, Monte-Carlo assessment of excess staleness estimators, Advisor: Prof. Davide Pirino
Gaia D'Angeli, DCC-NL: model validation for portfolio and risk management in a large dimensional setting, Advisor: Prof. Tommaso Proietti
Samy Zakria Moustafa El Hallag, Forecasting the Electricity Demand in the Italian Market through Supervised Learning Methods, Advisor: Prof. Gianluca Cubadda
Federico Fattinnanzi, Climate Change, Political Economy and Financial Distress, Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
Eric Festuccia, Predictability of Expected Returns, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Herzel
Marco Fioravanti, Anticipating market volatility using google trends data, Advisor: Prof. Vincenzo Farina
Diego Oswaldo Floreano Dominguez, Style-based Value at Risk: an investigation of equity emerging market mutual funds, Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
Emanuel Ignacio Gamboa Quintanilla, Pairs Trading Strategy Efficiency: Cointegration Analysis in Derivative Markets, Advisor: Prof. Gianni Nicolini
Yasaman Ghafarisomeh, Detecting Asymmetric Jumps and Semi-variation in Forecasting Realized Volatility, Advisor: Prof. Gianluca Cubadda
Fidan Huseynli, The Green Finance approach to financial performance, Advisor: Prof. Rocco Ciciretti
Edis Izejrosji, Measuring the connectedness between European stock indices with variance decomposition, Advisor: Prof. Tommaso Proietti
Lorenzo Lo Pinto, Multivariate Logit Models for Household Financial Hardship in Italy, Advisor: Prof. Maura Mezzetti
Marco Lorenzo, High-Dimensional Density Forecasting for Financial Time Series, Advisor: Prof. Tommaso Proietti
Veronica Lupi, Approximated MLE for diffusion models discretely sampled: Focus on Vasicek and CIR, Advisor: Prof. Davide Pirino
Irene Magni, Private Equity and Turnaround Funds: an Italian case study, Advisor: Prof. Vincenzo Farina
Francesco Marconi, A Model for Central Counterparty Risk with Stochastic Default Intensities, Advisor: Prof. Katia Colaneri
Simona Margareta Mare, Empirical Analysis of the Mortgage Market Granted to Italian Families, Advisor: Prof. Rocco Ciciretti
Gianluca Michienzi, ESG vs Blend Investments: Evidence from International Markets, Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
Hamed Molaei Shebilouysofla, The influence of corporate governance and firm performance on CEO compensation: panel analysis from the Canadian corporate sector, Advisor: Prof. Rocco Ciciretti
Simone Mosconi, Artificial Neural Networks for Option Pricing: an application to the Heston model Calibration, Advisor: Prof. Alessandro Ramponi
Merfat Nofal, Modelling Credit Risk with Big Data, Advisor: Prof. Tommaso Proietti
Alessandro Olivieri, Merger and Acquisition operations in the global energy sector: assessing Efficient Market Hypothesis, Advisor: Prof. Rocco Ciciretti
Saverio Piacenti, Value Creation Effect: Spin Off vs. Equity Carve Out, Advisor: Prof. Vincenzo Farina
Leonardo Procoli, The impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19) on market volatility, Advisor: Prof. Vincenzo Farina
Alberto Rainieri, Collateralized Interest Rate Swaps, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Herzel
Mohammad Rashidi Ranjbar, Comparison of volatility models for Bitcoin, Advisor: Prof. Tommaso Proietti
Daniele Ruffa, The Private Equity funds performance, Advisor: Prof. Vincenzo Farina
Cesare Russo, Portfolio construction considering the impact of shocks on higher moments, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Grassi
Mahshid Teimouri Toulabi, Machine Learning Algorithms in Default Loans Prediction, Advisor: Prof. Tommaso Proietti
Oscar Gustav Anders Thelander, Currency Options: Analytical Tractability versus Empirical Misspecification, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Herzel
Riccardo Traglia, A dynamic approach to Black-Litterman: Implementing a M-GARCH derived covariance matrix , Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
Duc Dieu Vinh Vu, Risk assessment with value at risk and expected shortfall during crises, Advisor: Prof. Tommaso Proietti
Chaotong Wang, The financial performance of professional manager succession in the family business-a case study in the Media group, Advisor: Prof. Luca Gnan
2019
Calascibetta Francesco, Crypto Coin and Applycation of Financial Derivatives on the ICOs, Advisor: Prof. Gianni Nicolini
Capoano Lorenzo, Optimal Combination of realised volatility estimators: a forecasting approach, Advisor: Prof. Gianluca Cubadda
Carosi Annalisa, Modeling the evolution of market uncertainty. Hedge Fund returns and Volatility of Aggregate Volatility within a dynamic perspective, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Herzel
Cascioli Aurora, High Dimensional Covariance Matrices Estimation: a comparison between Orthogonal GARCH and Generalized Orthogonal GARCH, Advisor: Prof. Tommaso Proietti
Cesaretta Claudio, Private Equity and Portfolio Performance, Risk and Diversification, Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
Chen Jinghui, The Effect of Horizon on Dynamic Asset Allocation without Parameter Uncertainty, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Herzel
Ciarletta Sara, Fintech: analysis of the relevance in the different activity’s areas of Italian Banks, Advisor: Prof. Vincenzo Farina
Corio Michele, Forecasting stock index volatility using the daily range of price, Advisor: Prof. Tommaso Proietti
Delghandi Maral, Impact of Political Events on Stock Market Returns: Empirical Evidence from Tehran Stock Exchange, Advisor: Prof. Vincenzo Farina
Di Geronimo Leonardo, Optimal financial resources for Central Counterparties. Introducing default dependence of clearing members: a mixed binomial approach, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Herzel
Di Lelio Andrea, An Investable Cryptocurrency Index: the CRT30 Index, Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
Di Matteo Alessandro, Modeling and forecasting the Italian yield curve with a dynamic Nelson-Siegel approach., Advisor: Prof. Alessandro Ramponi
Isernia Luigi, Weather risk management for utilities & energy: methodologies for estimating exposure and managing risk, Advisor: Prof. Gianni Nicolini
Krajenbrink Menno-Jan, Lockup Expiration Effects, Advisor: Prof. Vincenzo Farina
Li Zuho, Econometric Analysis of Skewness and Risk Premia in Asset Returns, Advisor: Prof. Tommaso Proietti
Molinaro Gianluca, A Financial Stress Index for Turkey, Advisor: Prof. Gianluca Cubadda
Monti Michela, Shrinkage estimation of the covariance matrix for portfolio optimization: an empirical assessment, Advisor: Prof. Gianluca Cubadda
Novikovs Rihards, Governance factors determining FDI inflows in emerging countries: cross-regional comparative study., Advisor: Prof. Vincenzo Farina
Sabbi Federica, The sentiment analysis: an application with the Black Litterman Model, Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
Saponaro Onofrio, Cointegrated market neutral portfolios: identification and performance analysis, Advisor: Prof. Gianluca Cubadda
Sorbo Michele, Risk volatility measures: a comparison., Advisor: Prof. Tommaso Proietti
Sperati Alfredo Paolo, The impacts of ESG Performances on Cost of Equity and Cost of Debt, Advisor: Prof. Vincenzo Farina
Stursa Zbynek, Thresholding for high-dimensional covariance matrix estimation, Advisor: Prof. Tommaso Proietti
Turmunkh Khongor, The use of Derivatives by Mutual funds, Advisor: Prof. Gianni Nicolini
Wang Yuming, Refining the father to son model with the cases of Chinese family firms, Advisor: Prof. Luca Gnan
Yusifli Parvana, Female Employees’ Job Burnout in Foreign Capital Enterprise in China, Advisor: Prof. Alessandro Hinna
Yusifzada Parviz, Professionalization and Managerialization in Small and Medium Family Firms, Advisor: Prof. Luca Gnan
Zeccolella Gianlorenzo, The effect of Mergers and Acquisitions on Bidder Default Risk in the Banking Sector, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Caiazza
2018
Bardeli Aurel, Attribution of ex-ante performance and risk to market sectors, Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
Bilardi Andrea, Dimension Reduction Methods and Har: forecasting analysis, Advisor: Prof. Prof. Gianluca Cubadda
Borin Carlo, A comparison of wrong-way risk Credit Value Adjustment using different techniques: change of measure, 2D Monte Carlo, Gaussian Copula resampling approach and Basel III, Advisor: Prof. Alessandro Ramponi
Caprasecca Mirko, Can market reaction on announcement date affect M&A failure? Evidence from financial deals in the U.S. market, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Caiazza
Ciolli Andrea, Target Cumulative Abnormal Return to M&As in US Banking Sector from 2000-2018, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Caiazza
Diaferia Savino, Merger Arbitrage: Profitability and Risk-Return Characteristic in the Italian Market, Advisor: Prof. Vincenzo Farina
Filippi Nicolò, The counterparty credit risk and its implication on profit and loss statement and regulatory capital, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Herzel
Forte Federica, Portfolio Optimization using Conditional Value at Risk: Application and Comparison with the Black-Litterman Model, Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
Gurbanli Orkhan, The Impact of Training and Motivation on Organizational Performance, Advisor: Prof. Alessandro Hinna
Iovino Valeria, A zombie bank is in town! Empirical analysis about the health condition of the Eurozone banking system in the 20th century, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Caiazza
Orlova Victoria, Estimating probability of sovereign defaults, Advisor: Prof. Maura Mezzetti
Porcaro Tommaso, Financial Applications of Time-Varying Copulas, Advisor: Prof. Tommaso Proietti
Rezaeighasemkheili Ali, The impact of news on the US dollar index futures, Advisor: Prof. Gianni Nicolini
Serafino Barbara, Renewable Energy Derivatives and the securitization of cash-flows, Advisor: Prof. Gianni Nicolini
Smorra Luca, The Italian market of NPL: Banca IFIS case study, Advisor: Prof. Vincenzo Farina
Zhang Ge, Derivatives Usage and Gender Diversity of Board of Directors, Advisor: Prof. Gianni Nicolini
2017
Cairone Simone, The inductive research of the change in decision-making of family business founder, Advisor: Prof. Tommaso Proietti
Genovese Jacopo, The Growth of Reits Market in East Asia, Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
Gentile Cristina, Measures of Asymmetric Information in Financial Markets, Advisor: Prof. Davide Pirino
Novikov Yurii, What are the country specific factors that influence the foreign direct investment?, Advisor: Prof. Vincenzo Farina
Renzetti Francesco, Empirical analysis on the phenomenon of delisting, Advisor: Prof. Vincenzo Farina
Schiavo Edoardo, Financial crisis, Buyout investments, and Corporate performance: the Italian case, Advisor: Prof. Vincenzo Farina
Fu Yite, The inductive research of the change in decision-making of family business founder, Advisor: Prof. Luca Gnan
Vittiglio Emanuele, Cointegration and trading opportunities: an empirical analysis Advisor: Prof. Vincenzo Farina
Rognone Lavinia, Pricing interest rate derivatives in a negative yield environment, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Herzel
Melone Alessandro, Understanding and Forecasting Financial Market Volatility Over Long Horizons, Advisor: Prof. Tommaso Proietti
D'Aria Marianna, The Credit Valuation Adjustment: Regulation and Implementation, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Herzel
Cesaroni Giulia, Contingent Convertible Bonds - A Market-Conform Equity Derivative Model, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Herzel
Carrozi Stefano, Negative Rates in the SABR Model, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Herzel
Bernardi Cristiano, Four Moments Portfolio Optimization: an Empirical Test, Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
2016
Almonte Stefania, Assessing the predictive ability of financial variables through a mixed frequency approach: some evidence from the Italian case, Advisor: Prof. Gianluca Cubadda
Baggia Douglas, Succession Process In Family Owned Businesses in Honduras: Incorporating new young members, Advisor: Prof. Luca Gnan
Barrano Salvatore, The Implied volatility as a risk predictor: the case of Brexit, Advisor: Prof. Gianni Nicolini
Giacomazzi Consuelo, Optimization of CFDs portfolio implementing SMA technique, Advisor: Prof. Gianni Nicolini
Moradi Hadi, The Determinants and Investigating of CANSLIM Method Profitability for Evaluation of Tehran Stock Exchange Stocks, Advisor: Prof. Sandro Brunelli
Maino Andrea, Time Varying Dependence and Panic Copula model for Risk Measurements, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Herzel
Petrova Denitza,On Psychological Barriers and Price Behaviors: Evidence from Eastern European Markets, Advisor: Prof. Gianni Nicolini
Riccardo Antonio, Vector Heterogeneous Autoregressive Index Model: an application on NYSE mahjor Banks'assets, Advisor: Prof. Gianluca Cubadda
Svetlomirova Biliana, Cryptocurrency:Nature and Features, Advisor: Prof. Williams De Ascaniis
Verneau Guglielmo, Loss Estimation in Structured Credit Products, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Herzel
Taraborrelli Jessica, The Management of A Real Estate Fund, Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
Scalia Roberto, Forecasting Real Estate Prices, Advisor: Prof. Tommaso Proietti
Sardo Simone, Sovereign CDS: how the default probability influence the market, Advisor: Prof. Gianni Nicolini
Santurelli Simone, The impact of reputation on banks liquidity risk: a study of italian listed banks, Advisor: Prof. Vincenzo Farina
Rinaldi Francesco, Portfolio construction and valuation: machine learning techniques applied to quantitative trading system, Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
Procacci Pierfrancesco, Flexible Bayesian Framework in Portfolio Construction: Entropy Pooling, Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
Petrilli Luka, Undirected Graphs for Large Scale Portfolios of European Stocks, Advisor: Prof. Tommaso Proietti
Maino Andrea, Behavioral risk modeling and Agency MBS valuation, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Herzel
Luzzi Francesco, News related to macroeconomic variable as risk factors on equity returns: evidence from Asian markets, Advisor: Prof. Rocco Ciciretti
Jiao Xuyang, Are There Tournaments in Mutual Funds?, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Herzel
Iasenzio Stefano, A Vector Heterogeneous Autoregressive Index Model for Realized Volatility: some empirical results for European Equity Indexes, Advisor: Prof. Gianluca Cubadda
Cortesini Alessandro, Test on Fama French factor on Hong Kong Singapore and India stock market, Advisor: Prof. Rocco Ciciretti
Cordiner Lorenzo, Statistical Arbitrage with Index Options: An Empirical Study of the European Option Market, Advisor: Prof. Marianna Brunetti
Carnevali Laura, An Empirical Analysis of the Italian attitude toward Mortagage Refinancing, Advisor: Prof. Rocco Ciciretti
Avoli Alessandro, The CDS spread and spread charge determinants in the US Market, Advisor: Prof. Marianna Brunetti
Arnone Raffaella, Econometric analysis of Value-at-Risk and Expected Shortfall, Advisor: Prof. Tommaso Proietti
Di Cosmo Marco, Calendar anomalies: Evidence from Real Estate Investment vehicles, Advisor: Prof. Gianluca Mattarocci
Fortuna Alice, Multiple bankin: the Italian case, Advisor: Prof. Marianna Brunetti
Korsaye Sofonias Alemu, Artificial Neural Networks for Implied Volatility Surface: Construction and Dynamics, Advisor: Prof. Cesare Robotti
Romaniello Christian, Central Couterparties: A numerical implementation of the default waterfall, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Herzel
De Michelis Francesco, Technical Anlysis, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Herzel
Torelli Edoardo, Convexity Correction for Interest Rate Derivatives, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Herzel
Aguilar Jauregui Catherine Stefany, Sustainability and outreach trade-off of Microfinance Institutions in Peru, Advisor: Prof. Leonardo Becchetti
Bologni Enrico, The effects of Microfinance on poverty reduction. The Case study of Buen Vivir, Ecuador, Advisor: Prof. Leonardo Becchetti
Borzi Chiara, Real Estate Factor Premium, Advisor: Prof. Gianluca Mattarocci
Brescia Mauro, The optimal capital structure of the firm with taxes, bankruptcy costs and stochastic volatility, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Herzel
Cavarretta Maria Chiara, Power Options in the Italian electricity market: an assessment of their potential in managing risk for the Italian operators, Advisor: Prof. Gianni Nicolini
Cea Lorenzo, A LIBOR Market Model with Multiple Curves, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Herzel
D'Orazio Gianpaolo, Portfolio construction and empirical testing of Black Litterman model, Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
Goudarzi Mostafa, Dynamic Spillover Effect in Future Markets, Advisor: Prof. Gianni Nicolini
Leone Stefano, ALM logics for Pension Funds, Advisor: Prof.Ugo Pomante
Principe Claudia, Impact of International Cross-Listing on Stock Liquidity: Evidence from European Stock Exchanges, Advisor: Prof. Gianluca Mattarocci
Sajadi Zahra, A review on the impact of venture capital on family businesses, Advisor: Prof. Luca Gnan
Serafini Alberto, Comparative analysis of socially responsible and traditional investments, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Herzel
Turchetti Cristiano, An affine term structure for European interbank risk, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Herzel
Verico Marco, Eccomi!. The App for one-to-one volunteerism. From idea generation to fundraising, Advisor: Prof. Williams De Ascaniis
2015
Amiraslanov Farid, A comparative analysis of the family business governance in UK, Canada and China, Advisor: Prof. Luca Gnan
Azzarelli Filippo, The impact of corporate governance on capital structure, Advisor: Prof. Vincenzo Farina
Bernardo Giuseppe, Lines of credit in corporate finance, Advisor: Prof. Gianluca Mattarocci
Colarossi Daniele, Active management and returns dispersion, Advisor: Prof. Rocco Ciciretti
Di Mario Alessio, Prospectus content, investor attention and IPO first-day returns, Advisor: Prof. Vincenzo Farina
Ducci Lorenzo, Estimating the probability of default with balance sheet information: an empirical analysis on US SMES during the last financial crisis, Advisor: Prof. Marianna Brunetti
Febo Angelo W., Liquidity, market impact and optimal trading strategies, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Herzel
Formichella Valentina, The credit value adjustment, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Herzel
Giosi Pierluigi, Pricing variance swap contracts, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Herzel
Gomez Walter Alexandar, Return based style analysis of globally invested flexible mutual funds, Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
Klimovich Sergey, An analysis of co-integration of financial derivative markets in a worldwide perspective, Advisor: Prof. Gianni Nicolini
Li Yanjun, Credit cycle and macroprudential policy, Advisor: Prof. Luisa Corrado
Maccari Laura, The creditworthiness evaluation through the rating system: an empirical application to the construction industry, Advisor: Prof. Gianluca Mattarocci
Malek Mohammadi M., Portfolio optimization with parametric quadratic programming, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Herzel
Mao Wenli, The influence of venture capital on family governance system, Advisor: Prof. Luca Gnan
Mtengwa Nyashadzashe, Impact investing: an advanced market capital allocation framework, Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
Piccirelli Alessia, How diversification affects idiosyncratic and overall risk of open-end equity funds, Advisor: Prof. Rocco Ciciretti
Quaranta Nicoletta, CSR and idiosyncratic volatility, Advisor: Prof. Rocco Ciciretti
Ranalli Giulia, Minibond. What kind of issuers are SMES? Evidence from the financial statement analysis, Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
Setaro Arianna, Short term inflation density forecasting with a Bayesian Var, Advisor: Prof. Tommaso Proietti
Stragapede Michele, Portfolio value at risk with jumps, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Herzel
Strauss Magdalena, A discussion of a matrix exponential model for spatially correlated data, Advisor: Prof. Maura Mezzetti
Tamburri Matteo, A comparison of forecasting performances between random walk, Garch-m and Egarch-m, Advisor: Prof. Marianna Brunetti
Totev Aleksandar, Corporate ownership of American and German companies: a comparative analysis of dual-class shares. Market performance and tendencies, Advisor: Prof. Luca Gnan
Troiano Federica, Labor market differences between natives and immigrants, Advisor: Prof. Franco Peracchi
Tucci Simone, The usefulness of the omega ratio in evaluating investment opportunities in the Greek Market, during the crisis, Advisor: Prof. Gianluca Mattarocci
Viselli Gabriele, The share of income from non-intermediation activities in the European cooperative Banks, Advisor: Prof. Rocco Ciciretti
Wang Cizhi, Case study in Wanda and Huawei, so that we can find some suggestion on shareholder structure and employees motivation, Advisor: Prof. Luca Gnan
2014
Abbasov Farid, Liqudity risk at Basel III, Advisor: Prof. Gianluca Mattarocci
Canori Alfredo, Basel III: A new regulatory framework, Advisor: Prof. Sandro Brunelli
Cesari Lorenzo, ESG performance and financial performance of equity mutual funds, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Herzel
Di Rocco Andrea, Corporate social responsibility around the world, Advisor: Prof. Vincenzo Farina
Ficcadenti Valerio, Inflation and growth: some empirical results from the European Union countries, Advisor: Prof. Giovanni Trovato
Kelemen Iringo Anna, Tactical asset allocation embedding with the Black-Litterman model's views, Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
Kraujutaityte Faustina, Competition among stock exchanges : comparison of listing regulations of singapore stock exchange and London stock exchange, Advisor: Prof. Nicoletta Ciocca
Marcone Michela, Stochastic methods for capital budgeting analysis, Advisor: Prof. Roberto Monte
Norante Valentini Giulio, Multinational companies and currency risk in the speculative attacks, Advisor: Prof. Gianluca Mattarocci
Petrini Francesco Maria, From Bail-out to Bail-in: a new framework of rules", Advisor: Prof. Leonardo Becchetti
Petrongari Michael, Future on Commodities: Agrex – Agricultural Derivatives Exchange, Advisor: Prof. Gianni Nicolini
Rahimli Sarkhan, Constant proportion portfolio insurance strategies and Related gap risk measures for processes with jumps and Applications, Advisor: Prof. Sergio Scarlatti
Razi Bibi Alia, The difference between the modern marketing management practices of family business, Advisor: Prof. Luca Gnan
Recupero Silvia, The Gold Pricing: Evidence from the Spot and the Future Gold Pricing, Advisor: Prof. Gianni Nicolini
Scalone Chiara, Italian target maturity funds: investment style and performance analysis, Advisor: Prof. Rocco Ciciretti
Tallarida Tiziano, Asset market microstructure: order book analysis, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Herzel
2013
Bendziute Dovile, Commercial and Investment Banking in Economies with Asymmetric Information, Advisor: Prof. Eloisa Campioni
Cilla Edoardo, Measuring and modelling the risk of liquidity, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Herzel
Del Signore Piera, Evaluating Density Forecasts for Financial Time Series, Advisor: Prof. Tommaso Proietti
Donato Ludovico, Investor Sentiment and Asset Prices Can a protable trading strategy be devised from a Pessimism index?, Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
Girardi Alessio, Investing in vice: An empirical study based on the U.S. market, Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
Grasso Adriana, Dynamic portfolio strategies with liquidity costs,* Advisor: Prof. Stefano Herzel
Haddad Khalil, Financial Analysis: Different Parts and Their Usages, Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
Lamaj Erisa, An overview of VaR. An application of Block Maxima method in risk management for heavy tailed stock returns, Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
Malatesta Fabrizio, Ethical funds and liquidity risk,* Advisor: Prof. Stefano Herzel
Mariotti Sara, Pricing and hedging CDOs using copulas, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Herzel
Oshafi Vesna, Trading in secondary loan markets, Advisor: Prof. Andrea Kamal Attar
Sarcinelli Nicola, Value creation through strategic diversification: the Fincantieri case, Advisor: Prof. Sandro Brunelli
* judged "particularly relevant" in the contest of the prestigious Bank of Italy Prize "Giorgio Mortara", for the best thesis of the year
2012
Capo Mariangela, Managing risk exposures using the risk budgeting approach: the equal risk contribution portfolio construction and analysis, Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
D'Onofrio Rossella, Pricing the Energy: the case of the European natural gas, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Herzel
Flores Deborah, A tactical asset allocation perspective applied to the black-litterman model, Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
Inglese Gabriele, Home bias and new measures of bias in asset allocation, Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
Lautizi Francesco, Empirical estimates of pricing kernel and risk aversion, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Herzel
Manenti Dario, Flexible funds: strategies and performances, Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
Pavana Marco, Mutual fund performance: active versus passive management, Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
Sangrigoli Dario, The evolution of the finance-growth nexus: past studies and new perspectives, Advisor: Prof. Leonardo Becchetti
Santorelli Giulio, Demographic structure and asset returns: A new prospective from international data, Advisor: Prof. Marianna Brunetti
2011
Cassetti Sante, Sequential conditional Correlation, Advisor: Prof. Tommaso Proietti
Santangelo Daniela, The Goldman Sachs event and SRI funds, Advisor: Prof. Rocco Ciciretti
2010
Formica Francesco, Basel III and its potential impact on global banks, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Caiazza
Periotto Marco, Provate equity and venture capital market in Italy: performances and potential development, Advisor: Prof. Vincenzo Farina