About Me
Biography
I am a Professor of Finance at Imperial College London and a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Prior to joining Imperial College, I was an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Warwick and I held visiting research positions at the Bank of England, CEMFI, City University of Hong Kong, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Norges Bank, Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research, and Washington University in St. Louis.
My research focuses on international finance, empirical asset pricing, financial intermediation, and Bayesian econometrics, and has been published in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, and the Journal of Empirical Finance. I have also received the Inquire UK 2010 and Inquire UK 2011 Best Paper Awards, and the Kepos Capital Award for the Best Paper on Investments at the 2013 WFA meetings. I have also served as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking (JMCB) from 2011 until 2014. I am currently an Associate Editor at the Journal of Financial Markets.
I currently teach International Finance at the Master level and Empirical Asset Pricing at the PhD level. I have received Awards for Teaching Excellence both at Warwick (2009) and Imperial College London (2013).
I hold a Laurea in Economics and Banking summa cum laude from the University of Siena (Italy), a Master in Economics and Finance from the University of Brescia (Italy), and a PhD in Finance from the University of Warwick (United Kingdom).