Thesis titles
MSc in Finance and Banking Theses Titles, by Academic Year
2025/2026
Masoumeh Ardakani, ESG Performance and Earnings Smoothness, Advisor: Prof. Vincenzo Farina
Fatemehsadat Agahikolour, Hedging Climate Change News: From Theory to Empirical Application, Advisor: Prof. Alessandro Ramponi
Adib Amini, Bayesian Machine\Deep Learning and CVaR-Based Portfolio Optimization: Evidence from SEP 500 Equities, Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
Luca Aurisicchio, From Econometrics to Deep Learning: A Comparative Study of HAR, LSTM, and Temporal Fusion Transformers for Volatility Forecasting, Advisor: Prof. Tommaso Proietti
Guido Birilli, Earnout Contracts and Valuation Asymmetries under Uncertainty: Evidence from European Mergers and Acquisitions, Advisor: Prof Vincenzo farina
Francesco Corfiati, Gender Income Gap and Household Financial Participation: Evidence from Italy, Advisor: Prof. Maura Mezzetti
Luca D'Antonio, Nonlinear Pricing via Backward Stochastic Differential Equations: An Application to Valuation Adjustments, Advisor: Prof. Katia Colaneri
Giorgia D'Orazio, Regularization Techniques for Inverse Covariance Estimation in High-Dimensional Portfolio Selection: A Comparative Study,Advisor: Prof. Tommaso Proietti
Sheida Farahbakht, Markowitz Portfolio Optimization under Transaction Costs: An Empirical Analysis, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Herzel
Alessio Feliziani, Shrinkage Estimation of Large-Dimensional Covariance Matrices for Portfolio Selection, Advisor: Prof. Tommaso Proietti
Angel Francioso, Drift Bursts in High-frequency Data: Reliability of the Drift Burst Statistic Under Simulated Departures from its Theoretical Assumptions, Advisor: Prof. Davide Erminio Pirino
Chiara Gamboni, How Renewable Penetration Shapes Electricity Price Volatility: Implications for Hedging Strategies in European Power Markets, Advisor: Prof. Gianni Nicolini
Raushan Kalaubayeva, Integrating ESG Factors in Investment Strategies: A Comparative Study of the European Union and Kazakhstan, Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
Maier Ahmed Khan, Implementation Of Derivatives In Pakistan Through The Financial Information Exchange Protocol, Advisor: Prof. Gianni Nicolini
Luca Laureti, U.S. Presidential Elections and the Options Market: Evidence on Volatility and Market Sentiment, Advisor: Prof. Gianni Nicolini
Domenico Latini, Forecast Evaluation for Jointly Elicitable Risk Measures: A Score-Based Approach to Model Selection, Advisor: Prof. Tommaso Proietti
Francesco Latini, The Impact of ECB Policy Expectations on the Euro Term Structure, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Herzel
Benedetta Marchettini, Sustainable Portfolio Optimization Under Stochastic Carbon Intensity, Advisor: Prof. Katia Colaneri
Valeria Marcobelli, Temporal Hierarchical Forecast Reconciliation of Energy Prices: An Application to the Italian Day-Ahead Market, Avisor: Prof. Tommaso Proietti
Chiara Marcotullio, Least Squares Monte Carlo Pricing of Life Insurance Contracts, Advisor: Prof. Katia Colaneri
Locman Merheb, Post-Crisis Banking Regulation and Its Impact on Repo Market Participation and Financial Liquidity, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Herzel
Nozanin Nurullaeva, Option Pricing and Parameter Estimation Under the SABR Model, Advisor: Prof. Katia Colaneri
Fabiola Ordinola Sarmiento, Forecasting Financial Returns: A Comparison of Econometric and Supervised Learning Methods, Advisor: Prof. Gianluca Cubadda
Anna Perrone, Commercial and Cooperative Banks in the Eurozone: Profitability and Resilience over the Last Decade, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Caiazza
Bisera Peshlikoska, Social Media Attention and Abnormal Trading Volume: Evidence from Meme and Non-Meme Stocks, Advisor: Vincenzo Farina
Jaber Riahi, ESG Performance and Cost of Equity Capital, Advisor: Prof. Vincenzo Farina
Romeo Ceasar Leon Sackelius, Investigating the Relationship Between Google Trends and Stock Returns: Empirical Evidence from Large Cap Firms on Nasdaq Stockholm, Advisor: Prof. vincenzo Farina
Cristina Scuderi, Credit Valuation Adjustment for Commodity under Wrong-Way Risk, Advisor: Prof. Katia Colaneri
Amirhossein Soleimanian, Comparative Study of Black-Scholes Model and a Deep Learning Approach in Option Pricing, Advisor: Prof. Gianni Nicolini
Ivan Stati, The Leave-One-Out Least Squares Monte Carlo Method: Overcoming Look-Ahead Bias in Option Pricing, Advisor: Prof. Katia Colaneri
Danial Vadi, The Role of Opportunity Assets in Multi-Asset Funds, Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
2024/2025
Matteo Maria Pio Aloisi, A Stochastic Intensity Model for Catastrophe Bonds with Self-exciting Jumps, Advisor: Prof. Katia Colaneri
Avinash Ambakanti, Conflicting ESG Ratings, Diverging Financial Impacts: A Dual Provider Assessment, Advisor: Prof. Vincenzo Farina
Francesco Ansanelli, Sentiment Analysis for Cryptocurrencies Returns, Advisor: Prof. Alessio Farcomeni
Shaghayegh Asady, Investor Attention and IPO Performance: Evidence from Google Trends, Advisor: Prof. Vincenzo Farina
Valerio Astorre, From Realized Moments to Structural Parameters: Neural Calibration of a High Frequency Price Formation Model, Advisor: Prof. Davide Erminio Pirino
Roberta Avola, Surveying Sustainable Financial Instruments: Statistical E Machine Learning Analysis of Green Bonds and the Twin-Bond Case Study, Advisor: Prof. Alessandro Ramponi
Alessio Battilocchi, Option Hedging with Statistical Learning Methods, Advisor: Prof. Alessandro Ramponi
Alessia Belcastro, Do Abnormal Retail Investor Attention and Media Sentiment Drive IPO Mispricing? Evidence from the Italian Market, Advisor: Prof. Vicenzo Farina
Damiano Belmonte, Applied Low-resource Deployment of Large Language Models for Financial Applications, Advisor: Prof. Vincenzo Farina
Riccardo Bentivogli, Structural Changes and Risk Premia in European Money Market Spreads, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Herzel
Lorenzo Brontesi, Self-Exciting Default Intensities: Pricing Under Complete and Partial Information, Advisor: Prof. Katia Colaneri
Andrea D'Aleessio, The True Nature of Volatility, Advisor: Prof. Katia Colaneri
Valerio D'Angeli, Estimation of Integrated Volatility: A Comparison Between the Pre-Averaging Approach and the Neural Network Estimator, Advisor: Prof. Davide Erminio Pirino
Ivan D'Urso, Ensemble Forecasting of Time Series via Multiresolution Wavelet Decomposition, Advisor: Prof. Davide Erminio Pirino
Giuseppe De Santis, Contagion and Recovery in Defaultable Zero-Coupon Bond Pricing: An Analysis Based on the Dynamic Contagion Process with Diffusion Model, Advisor: Prof. Katia Colaneri
Annalisa Gagliardini, ESG Compatibility and MEA Success: Evidence from EU and US Banks, Advisor: Prof. Maura Mezzetti
Ramiz Ganbarli, Income Inequality in Germany, Advisor: Prof. Alessio Farcomeni
Geanina Adelina Stefania Hosszu, ESG Ratings and Firm Performance in the Nordics: The Role of Board Gender Diversity in Driving Sustainable Outcomes, Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
Omar Ibrahim Vargas, Deep Reinforcement Learning for Enhanced Index Tracking: A Dynamic Multi Agent Approach, Advisor: Prof. Alessio Farcomeni
Daniil Kislinskiy, Zero Days to Expiration Options on Bitcoin: an Empirical Analysis, Advisor: Prof. Stefano Herzel
Aleksei Komarov, Foreign Exchange Rate Risks and International Equity ETFs: Performance Comparison of Hedged and Unhedged Funds, Advisor: Prof. Alessandro Ramponi
Edoardo Litterio, Alternative Variables for Modeling Stock Performance in Agribusiness: Weather Risk and Weather Derivatives, Advisor: Prof. Gianni Nicolini
Lorenzo Mastrofini, Application of AI to Portfolio Construction, Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
Cynthis Messore, Daily Returns Predictability: A Replication, Reconcilation and Extension of the Pockets Debate, Advisor: Prof. Tommaso Proietti
Nicolo' Michiorri, Sustainable Investments and Fund Performance: Testing Curvilinear Relationship in European Open-ended Mutual Funds, Advisor: Prof. Rocco Ciciretti
Riccardo Gabriele Mihalescu, Generative AI in Equity Markets: Evaluating GPT's Financial Decision-Making, Advisor: Prof. Vincenzo Farina
Alessandro Natalizia, A Factor-Based Analysis of ESG Premium in Recent Developed Markets, Advisor: Prof. Rocco Ciciretti
David Alessandrro Pappaianni, Trading Cards as Alternative Assets, Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
Sara Pratesi, The Influence of Graphs on Decision-Making Processes: A Focus on Financial Decision, Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
Stefano Proietti, Managing the Current Dynamic Interest Rate Landscape: A Comparative Analysis of SAA and TAA Adjustments by Major Asset Managers, Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
Marco Romano, Empirical analysis of Hierarchical Risk Parity, Advisor: Prof. Ugo Pomante
Tiziano Sancamillo, Stochastic Mortality Modeling and Pricing of Life Insurance Products: Term Insurance and Pure Endowment, Advisor: Prof. Katia Colaneri
Alessandro Siniscalchi, Algorithmic Trading Using High Frequency Data, Advisor: Prof. Katia Colaneri
2023/2024
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
2022/2023
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
2021/2022
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
2020/2021
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
2019/2020
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
2018/2019
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
20172018
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
2016/2017
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
2015/2016
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
2014/2015
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
2013/2014
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
2012/2013
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
2011/2012
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
2010/2011
Cassetti Sante, Sequential conditional Correlation, Advisor: Prof. Tommaso Proietti
Santangelo Daniela, The Goldman Sachs event and SRI funds, Advisor: Prof. Rocco Ciciretti
2009/2010
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