Professional Growth of «Angelo Costa» Prize Winners fileProfessional Growth of «Angelo Costa» Prize Winners The Winners of the XIth Edition (2007) GIULIO TARDITI ([email protected])

Professional Growthof «Angelo Costa» Prize Winners

The Winners of the XIth Edition (2007)

GIULIO TARDITI ([email protected]) is attending the finalyear of the Ph.D. course in Economics and quantitative Methodsat the Economics Department of the «Roma Tre» University, wherehe is concluding his thesis: “Affine Structure Hypothesis forEuribor Rates”.

RAFFAELE PASSARO ([email protected]) is currently enrolled inthe first year of the Ph.D. Program in Money and Finance at theUniversity of Rome “Tor Vergata”. His research interests aremainly concerned with macroeconomics and finance.

PIERMASSIMO PAVESE ([email protected])is chemical engineer at the Politechnical University of Turin, andis now working at the National Real Estate Agency in Rome asProgram Manager Analyst. He is a member of the NationalResearch Group «Revisione Estimi» at the National Real EstateAgency and regularly collaborates with the Department of PublicPolicy and Public Choice at the University of Eastern Piedmontand with his supervisor, Prof. Roberto Zanola, on research projectsmainly regarding hedonic techniques and applied economics. Atpresent, he is studying the wine and real estate markets primarilyin Italy.

ELISA KELLER ([email protected]) worked from June 2007to July 2009 at the European Central Bank within the DirectorateGeneral Statistics. She is currently a first-year Ph.D. student in

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Economics at the University of Iowa (academic year 2008/2009).Her research interests mainly involve Macroeconometrics andapplied Bayesian methods.

PIERLUIGI MURRO ([email protected]) is currentlyPh.D. student at the Department of Economics of the Universityof Bari. His primary fields of interest are growth theory and SMEfinancing. At present, he is studying the relationship betweenfinance and innovation, with particular focus on credit rationing.

LEA CASSAR ([email protected]) is currently enrolled in thesecond year of M.Phil. in Economics at the University of Oxford.Lea was awarded the “Luca D’Agliano” scholarship for 2008-2009sponsored by the Centro Studi “Luca D’Agliano” of Turin, Italy.

The Winners of the Xth Edition (2006)

LUIGI BOCOLA ([email protected]) is a doctoral student atthe University of Pennsylvania. His research interests focus on theeconomics of financial markets.

CARLO FRENQUELLI ([email protected]) has been workingwith Banca delle Marche since May 2006, where he is employedin the Financial Division. For about a year, his main activitieswere the assessment and implementation of over-the-counterderivative instruments, aimed at realizing risk-coverage strategiesconcerning interest rates, exchange rates and the price ofcommodities. At present he is working in equity market trading.

SILVIA GALLI ([email protected]) is a Ph.D. candidatein Economics at Durham University. She is going to submit herdissertation titled “Economic Growth, Intellectual Property Rights,and the Market for Ideas”, with her main field of research beingmacroeconomics and the economics of innovation with specialinterest in R&D-driven economic growth. During the past years

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Silvia has been also studying and teaching at the University ofGlasgow.

FEDERICA LIBERINI ([email protected]) is now enrolled inthe third year of the Ph.D. in Economics at the University ofWarwick. Her research interests focus on public economics andapplied microeconometrics.

ALESSANDRO LUDOVICI ([email protected])currently works at Prometeia SpA in Bologna where he is an Assetand Liability Management analyst. His research interests aremainly focused on risk management and on the application ofartificial intelligence to the pricing of financial instruments.

Publications:with ANGELINI E., «Credit Default Swaps Evaluation Model

with Neural Networks», Journal of Service Science andManagement, vol. 2, no. 1, pages 15-28.

The Winners of the IXth Edition (2005)

FABRIZIO SPARGOLI ([email protected]) is a third yearPh.D. student in Economics at the “Pompeu Fabra” University inBarcelona. His research interests encompass the fields ofmonetary economics, monetary policy, the theory of financialintermediation and commodity markets.

FRANCESCA VIANI ([email protected]) is a Ph.D. candidateat the Department of Economics at the European UniversityInstitute of Fiesole, Italy, where she received the Master ofResearch in July 2007. Her research focuses on internationalmacroeconomics and international financial markets.

OTTORINO MORRESI ([email protected]; [email protected]) has been working as Assistant Professor of Finance at theUniversity of Roma Tre since 2008. In the same year he was post-

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doctoral student at the Cass Business School of London. He isworking on the following topics: performance, capital structureand corporate governance of family firms; value creation of SMEs’internationalization strategies. He is ad hoc referee of the Journalof Management and Governance.

SERGIO MASCIANTONIO ([email protected])currently works at the Bank of Italy, Central Banking Department.He is mainly involved in the financial management of the Italianpublic debt, the structuring of dynamic optimization models forthe issuance of Italian government securities and financialforecasting.

PAOLO MELINDI GHIDI ([email protected]) is currentlya Research Fellow at the Department of Economics, University ofBologna. His research concentrates in the field of politicaleconomy, with a particular focus on minorities’ issues.

The Winners of the VIIIth Edition (2004)

MATTEO ALESSANDRO BOBBA ([email protected]) is currentlyPh.D. candidate at the Paris School of Economics. His researchinterests encompass the methodology in randomized control trialsin developing countries and applied microeconomics.

PAMELA GIUSTINELLI ([email protected])is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Economics atNorthwestern University. Her main research interests concentratewithin the fields of applied econometrics and microeconometrics(partial identification based on monotonicity; treatment-responsemodels; quantile regression; econometrics of discrete choice;estimation methods under endogenously stratified sampling),economics of education (school choice, educational tracking,returns to schooling), and survey design and implementation


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(elicitation of subjective expectations, decision processes and socialinteractions).

ANDREA M. BUFFA ([email protected]) is currentlyenrolled in the third year of the Ph.D. in Finance at the LondonBusiness School (LBS). His research interests deal mainly withasset pricing with market imperfections, microstructure, andbehavioural finance.

Publications:BUFFA A. - NICODANO G., 2008, «Should Insider Trading be

Prohibited When Share Repurchases are Allowed?», Review ofFinance, vol. 12, pages 735-765.

LUCA BRANDI ([email protected]) after working as afinancial consultant in the agricultural sector, he presently worksas a clerk in a cooperative credit bank.

MATTEO LUCIANI ([email protected]) is currently enrolledin the third year of the Ph.D. Program in economics at theUniversity of Rome “La Sapienza”. His research interests concernStructural Dynamic Factors Models and the economic impact anddiffusion of information and communication technologies.

The Winners of the VIIth Edition (2003)

ALESSANDRO BUCCIOL ([email protected]) is assistantprofessor of Econometrics at the University of Verona, and ismember of a research group of the University of Amsterdam onpension reforms. His research focuses mainly on householdconsumption and portfolio choices, public and private pensiondesign and behavioural economics.

FRANCESCO DECAROLIS ([email protected]) is currently anassistant professor at the Economics Department of the Universityof Wisconsin Madison. His research interest is in industrial


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organization with an emphasis on the empirical analysis ofauctions and public procurement.

GIOVANNI WALTER PUOPOLO ([email protected]) is currentlyenrolled in the Ph.D. Program in finance at the University ofLausanne and SFI (Swiss Finance Institute). In January 2008,Giovanni was awarded the Student Travel Award from the AmericanFinance Association and in spring 2008 he was a Visiting Scholarat the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago. Hisresearch interests focus on asset pricing, option pricing,international finance and portfolio theory with transaction costs.

AURORA ASCIONE ([email protected]) is currentlyworking as Assistant Economist at the Office of Fair Trading inLondon and she is completing her Ph.D. in economics at theEuropean University Institute of Fiesole (Italy). Her researchinterest deals with industrial organization and internationalmacroeconomics.

ALESSANDRO BONATTI ([email protected]) is anAssistant Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan Schoolof Management. His research focuses on models of discriminatorypricing for newly introduced goods, and in the design ofcontractual arrangements to achieve efficient cooperation inbusiness partnerships.

The Winners of the VIth Edition (2002)

PIETRO CORETTO ([email protected]) completed his Ph.D.inStatistical Sciences at University College London. His researchinterests focus on asymptotic theory, mixtures of probabilitymeasures and empirical finance.

VINCENZO DI MARO ([email protected]) is completing hisPh.D. in Economics at the University College of London. His


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research interests include development economics, intrahouseholdallocation of resources and evaluation of developmentinterventions.

ALESSIO MORO ([email protected]) is currently enrolled in thesixth year of the Ph.D. in Economics at the Universidad Carlos IIIin Madrid. His research interests include growth, productivity andmonetary economics.

CRISTINA SOMMACAMPAGNA ([email protected]) is Economist in the Risk Management Division ofthe European Central Bank, where appropriate models forquantification and management of economic and financial risk aredeveloped and implemented.

DAVIDE FURCERI ([email protected]) is currently assistantprofessor at the University of Palermo.

Publications:«Business Cycle Volatility and Country Size: Evidence for a

Sample of OECD Countries», Economics Bulletin, no. 5(3), 2008,pages 1-7; «Zipf’s Law and World Income Distribution», AppliedEconomics Letters, vol. 15(12), 2008, pages 921-923; «EMUEnlargement, Stabilization Costs and Insurance Mechanisms»,Journal of International Money and Finance, vol. 27(2), 2008, pages169-187; «Business-Cycle Synchronization in the EMU», AppliedEconomics, 2008, vol. 40(12), 2008, pages 1491-1501; «Is theMiddle East an Optimum Currency Area? A Comparison of Costsand Benefits», Open Economies Review, vol. 19(4), 2008, pages479-491.

The Winners of the Vth Edition (2001)

STEFANO SCHIAVO ([email protected]) is an assistantprofessor at the Department of Economics of the University ofTrento (Italy) since Febraury 2008, and a research fellow at OFCE


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(Observatoire Français des Conjonctures Economiques) where hehas worked as an economist between 2006 and 2007. His mainfield of research is international economics.

Publications:«Financial Integration, GDP Correlation and the Endogeneity

of Optimum Currency Areas», Economica, no. 75, 2008, pages 168-89; SCHIAVO S. - VAONA «A Poolability and the Finance-GrowthNexus: A Cautionary Note», Economics Letters, vol. 98(2), 2008,pages 144-47; MUSSO P. - SCHIAVO S., «The Impact of FinancialConstraints on Firm Survival and Growth», Journal of EvolutionaryEconomics, vol. 18(2), 2008, pages 135-149; FAGIOLO G. - REYES J.- SCHIAVO S., «Assessing the Evolution of International EconomicIntegration Using Random-Walk between Ness Centrality: The Casesof East Asia and Latin America», Advances in Complex Systems, vol.11(5), 2008, pages 685-702; FAGIOLO G. - REYES J. - SCHIAVO S., «Onthe Topological Properties of the World Trade Web: A WeightedNetwork Analysis», Physica A, vol. 387(15), 2008, pages 3868-3873.

FILIPPO LUCA CALCIANO ([email protected]) continuesworking on game theory within the Doctoral Program at CORE,Louvain-la-Neuve. His interests go towards developing, along a va-riety of directions, ideas related to strategic stability, and towardsextending it to games with communications, with applications tomechanism design. He has been visiting scholar in Paris.

STEFANIA CIRAOLO ([email protected]) has been working since2005 at the Risk Management Directorate at the EuropeanInvestment Bank as Senior Risk Analyst. She developed andimplemented new methodologies for Risk Management,particularly in the areas of the expected loss and Credit VaR ofthe Bank loans portfolio. More recently, she took the responsibilityfor the Risk Pricing and the Internal Rating Methodology for thelending operations outside the EU. She has conducted a projectaimed at pooling Default and Recovery Rates among IFIs that ledto the creation of the Global Emerging Markets Risk DatabaseConsortium.


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PAOLO SPADA ([email protected]) is currently completinghis Ph.D. Program in Political Science at Yale University. Hisresearch concentrates in the field of political economy, with a par-ticolar focus on political competition and corruption.

DANIELA IORIO ([email protected]) is assistant professor ofeconomics at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, which shejoined in the fall of 2007. Currently she is working on topics re-lated to political economy, labor and health economics.

The Winners of the IVth Edition (2000)

ROSA ARGENZIANO ([email protected]) joined the University ofEssex as a Lecturer in Economics in September 2005. Her currentresearch focuses on coordination games and competition inmarkets with network externalities.

Publications:«Differentiated Networks: Equilibrium and Efficiency»,

RAND, Journal of Economics, vol. 39(3), 2008, pages 747-769.

RICCARDO BONCI ([email protected]) After spending thelast two years at the European Central Bank (Monetary policystance Division) where he was involved in the flow-of-fundsprojection exercise, he is now working at the Research Departmentof the Bank of Italy, Perugia branch. His research interests arecurrently focused on household portfolio allocation and debtsustainability.

Publications:with COLUMBA F., «Monetary Policy Effects: New Evidence

from the Italian Flow of Funds», Applied Economics, vol. 40, no.21, 2008, pages 2803-2818.

ANDREA FERRERO ([email protected]) is an Economistin the Macroeconomics and Monetary Studies Function at theFederal Reserve Bank of New York. His current research aims atevaluating the impact of the Fed’s non-standard policy actions onmacroeconomic and financial variables.


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GIOVANNI MASTROBUONI ([email protected])is currently assistant professor at Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin. Heis also research fellow at CeRP and NETSPAR. In 2008 he receivedthe Steven H. Sandell Grant Award for his project “The Role ofInformation for Retirement Behavior: Evidence based on theStepwise Introduction of the Social Security Statement.” In 2008he became the Vice-Director of the Allievi (Honor Students of theUniversity of Turin) Program.

ELISABETTA MICHETTI ([email protected]) is currently an assi-stant professor into mathematical methods in economics, financeand insurance in the Faculty of Economics at the University ofMacerata, Italy. Her areas of interest as regards research arediscrete dynamic systems and chaos theory, with particularreference to their application in micro and macroeconomics.

MATTEO PAGANINI ([email protected]) is working at theMarket Risk Unit of the Risk Management Department of BancaPopolare di Milano. He is involved in the pricing and the risk-va-luation of the financial instruments owned by the Bank. In thelast year, he has been working on Asset Liability Management andLiquidity Risk.

MASSIMILIANO PISANI ([email protected]) iscurrently working at the Economic Outlook and Monetary PolicyResearch Department of the Bank of Italy. He is involved inanalyzing developing and estimating with Bayesian methodsDSGE models of the euro area and the world economy.

The Winners of the IIIth Edition (1999)

STEFANIA D’AMICO (Stefania.D’[email protected]) is currently aneconomist at the Board of Governors of the Federal ReserveSystem, in the Division of Monetary Affairs, monetary andfinancial market analysis Section. Her fields of interest are


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econometrics and statistics, monetary economics and financialmarkets in Washington.

LUCA GAMBETTI ([email protected]) is working asassistant professor at the Department of Economics of theUniversitat Autonoma de Barcelona since 2006. His main researchinterests are quantitative macroeconomics, macroeconometricsand applied time series.

MASSIMILIANO RIGON ([email protected])works at the Research Department of the Bank of Italy, Milanbranch, where he is involved in the analysis of regional financialmarkets and in the analysis of local public finance.

MICHELE RUTA ([email protected]) is an economist in theEconomic Research Division of the WTO and between 2004 and2007 he was a Fellow at the European University Institute in Flo-rence. Michele specializes in international economics and politicaleconomy and his research focuses on issues related to Europeanintegration and the world trading system.

CHIARA SCOTTI ([email protected]) has been working sincethe year 2005 in the International Finance Division at the Boardof Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington. Herresearch interests are macroeconomics and econometrics.

The Winners of the IInd Edition (1998)

MARCO AIRAUDO ([email protected]) is stillModigliani Research Fellow at Collegio Carlo Alberto and at theDepartment of Economics and Finance “G. Prato” of the Facultyof Economics, University of Turin. His research focuses on therole played by expectations-formation and learning for the designof monetary policy.


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GIANCARLO CISOTTO ([email protected]) continued hisexperience in the Asset Management Business Unit in LloydAdriatico as a manager of fixed income section of Lloyd Adraticopension funds and Lloyd Adriatico, Antonveneta Vita and L.A. Vitaunit linked funds.

GIULIANA TIMPANI ([email protected]) works at the Società pergli Studi di Settore (Sose), were she is involved in economicanalysis of wholesale and retail sale sectors. In 2008 she was alsoinvolved in analytical methods of local economic systems.

GIORGIO VALENTE ([email protected]) is currentlyProfessor of Finance and Director of the Institute of Finance atthe University of Leicester, UK. His research focuses on issues ininternational finance, with a particular interest in exchange-ratedetermination and international asset pricing, and themicrostructure of FX and fixed income markets.

FILIPPO VERGARA CAFFARELLI ([email protected]) is currently at the Bank of Italy’s International EconomicAnalysis and Relations Department, having previously worked atthe London Representative Office and at the Milan branch of theBank of Italy. His research interests include international financeand trade, network theory and industrial organization. Formerly aresearch fellow in Applied Economics at the University of RomeLa Sapienza, he holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the EuropeanUniversity Institute (Florence, Italy).

The Winners of the Ist Edition (1997)

GIANLUCA BALDASSARRE ([email protected]) isresearcher at ISTC-CNR, Rome. His interests concentrate in the fieldsof: neural-network computational models of motivations/emotionsand sensorimotor learning in animals, humans, and robots. From2006: Director of the Research Group “LOCEN - Laboratory of


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Computational Embodied Neuroscience”. In 2008 he obtained, asCoordinator, the funding of the European Integrated Project ‘IM-CLeVeR - Intrinsically-Motivated Cumulative-Learning VersatileRobots’.

Publications:Book Chapters: OGNIBENE D. - BALKENIUS C. - BALDASSARRE G.,

«A Reinforcement-Learning Model of Top-Down Attention Based ona Potential-Action Map», in PEZZULO G. - BUTZ V.M. - CASTELFRANCHI

C. - FALCONE R. (eds.), The Challenge of Anticipation - A UnifyingFramework for the Analysis and Design of Artificial Cognitive Systems,LNAI 5225, Berlin, Springer-Verlag, 2008, pages 161-184.

STEFANO D’AMBROSIO ([email protected])has been working since the year 1999 in the company “EuropeEconomics”, an economic consultancy based in London where hereached the position of Principle in 2006. Stefano has an extensiveexperience in the telecoms sector and in particular of cost modelling,access pricing, universal service obligation and regulatoryaccounting. He is now based in Geneva, where since 2007 he directshis own company “27 degrees” ltd.

LUCA FLABBI ([email protected]) is Assistant Professor inthe Department of Economics at Georgetown University inWashington, D.C. He is a labor economist and appliedeconometrician working on labor market dynamics, bargaining,gender discrimination, inequality and schooling.

Publications:with PATERNOSTRO S. - TIONGSON E., «Returns to Education in

the Economic Transition», Economic of Education Review, vol. 27,Issue 6, December 2008, pages 724-740.

ANITA GUELFI ([email protected]) is presently working as a labour-market economist at the Institute for Studies and Economic Ana-lyses (ISAE) in Rome. She is also collaborating with theDepartment of economics and statistics at the University of Rome“La Sapienza” as well as supporting the scientific coordinating


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team of the European network of experts on gender equality inthe fields of social inclusion, pensions, health and long-term care.

PAOLA RAMPONE ([email protected]) has been continuing theexperience in KPMG Advisory reaching the position of manager.Playing the project manger role since 2007, she managed a projectdevoted to the implementation of the information system in theEuropean branches of a major Italian manufacturing corporation.She got the ANIMP/IPMA certification of level D as projectmanager in 2007.

MICHELE TROVA ([email protected]) continuedhis research activity in the field of asset management (managementof mutual funds portfolios and wealth management) as head of theMarket Analysis and Asset Allocation desk in Veneto Banca S.C.p.A.He also continued his research activity at the University and hasbeen confirmed as professor of Econometrics I at the University ofVenice (Treviso), and instructor of Asset Allocation at the VeniceInternational University (Master Course in Economics and Finance).


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Professional Growth of «Angelo Costa» Prize Winners fileProfessional Growth of «Angelo Costa» Prize Winners The Winners of the XIth Edition (2007) GIULIO TARDITI ([email protected])