Research

Main research interests:

Time series econometrics (non-linearity, structural breaks, regime-switching)

Financial econometrics (volatility, risk measurement)

Climate change econometrics and sustainable finance

Dynamic latent variable models

Prediction markets and sports forecasting

Working papers:

Publications:

Adaptive information-based methods for determining the co-integration rank and the lag order in heteroskedastic VAR models (2023)

Econometric Reviews, 42, pp. 725-757

(with H.P. Boswijk, G. Cavaliere, A.M.R. Taylor) [link]

Home advantage and mispricing in indoor sports’ ghost games: the case of European basketball” (2023)

Annals of Operations Research, 325, pp. 391-418

(with J.J. Reade) [link]

“Informational efficiency and behaviour within in-play prediction markets” (2022)

International Journal of Forecasting, 38(1), pp.  282-299

(with G. Angelini and C. Singleton) [link]


“Weighted Elo ratings for tennis match predictions” (2022)

European Journal of Operational Research, 297(1), pp. 120-132

(with G. Angelini and V. Candila) [link]

“Blind to carbon risk? An analysis of stock market’s reaction to the Paris Agreement” (2020)

Ecological Economics, 170 

(with I. Monasterolo) [link]

“Efficiency of online football betting markets” (2019)

International Journal of Forecasting, 35, pp. 712-721 

(with G. Angelini) [link]

“Co-integration rank determination in partial systems using information criteria” (2018)

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 80(1), pp. 65-89

(with G. Cavaliere, L. Fanelli) [link]


“Determining the cointegration rank in heteroskedastic VAR models of unknown order” (2018)

Econometric Theory, 34(2), pp. 349-382

(with G. Cavaliere, A. Rahbek, A.M.R. Taylor) [link]

“PARX model for football match predictions” (2017)

Journal of Forecasting, 36(7), pp. 795-807

(with G. Angelini) [link]

“A Markov-switching regression model with non-Gaussian innovations: estimation and testing” (2017)

Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics, 21(2), pp. 1-22

(with C. Viroli) [link]

“A comparison of sequential and information-based methods for determining the co-integration rank in heteroskedastic VAR models” (2015)

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 77, pp. 106-128

(with G. Cavaliere, A. Rahbek, A.M.R. Taylor) [link]

“Disequilibria and contagion in financial markets: Evidence from a new test” (2015)

Journal of Applied Economics, 18(2), pp. 247-266

(with A. Gardini) [link]

“A dynamic latent model for poverty measurement” (2015)

Communications in Statistics, Theory and Methods, 44, pp. 5037-5048

(with M. Costa) [link]

“Mining categorical sequences from data using a hybrid clustering method” (2014)

European Journal of Operational Research, 234, pp. 720-730

(with J.G. Dias) [link]

“A dynamic analysis of stock markets using a hidden Markov model” (2013) 

Journal of Applied Statistics, 40, pp. 1682-1700

(with L.J. Paas) [link]

“Latent class models for financial data analysis: Some statistical developments” (2013)

Statistical Methods and Applications, 22, pp. 227-242

[link]

“A permutation based procedure for classification assessment” (2012) 

Communications in Statistics, Theory and Methods, 41, pp. 3126-3137

(with M. Costa)

“The multidimensional measurement of poverty: A fuzzy set approach” (2008) 

Statistica, 2008, 68, pp. 303-319

(with M. Costa)

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