Department of Finance

Address: Via Roentgen 1, Milano -  2nd floor

Department Head: Mario Massari
 
The mission of the Department of Finance is to promote high quality research at Bocconi and to coordinate the teaching of finance at undergraduate, Master and PhD level.
 

Our main areas of activity are: 

• corporate finance (corporate finance theory, empirical corporate finance, financial management, valuation, M&A and strategic finance);
• management and regulation of financial institutions (banks, insurance companies, other non-banking intermediaries);
• market microstructure and regulation of financial markets; 
• theoretical and empirical asset pricing and quantitative finance (security and derivatives pricing, financial econometrics, models for portfolio selection, asset management)
  

NEWS

May 2013: Accepted at Review of Financial Studies 
Hannes Wagner, Karl Lins e Paolo Volpin, “Does Family Control Matter? International Evidence from the 2008-2009 Financial Crisis”

May 2013: Accepted at Review of Financial Studies 
Fulvio Ortu, Claudio Tebaldi, and Andrea Tamoni "Long Run Risk and the Persistence of Consumption Shocks"

April 2013: Accepted at Journal of Finance
Nicola Gennaioli, Alberto  Martin, and Stefano Rossi, “Sovereign Default, Domestic Banks, and  Financial Institutions”

March 2013: Accepted at Journal of Financial Economics for publication
Nicolas Serrano-Velarde, Xavier Boutin, Giacinta Cestone, Chiara Fumagalli, and Giovanni Pica, “The Deep-Pocket Effect of Internal Capital Markets”

February 2013: Accepted at WFA for presentation
Mascia Bedendo, L. Cathcart and L. El-Jahel, "Distressed Debt Restructuring in the Presence of Credit Default Swaps”

October 2012: Accepted at The Review of Financial Studies
Nicola Gennaioli, S. Rossi, Contractual Resolutions of Financial Distress

October  2012: Accepted at Quarterly Journal of Economics
Nicola Gennaioli, R. La Porta, F. López-de-Silanes and A. Shleifer, Human Capital and Regional Development

October 2012: Accepted at Journal of Finance
Nicola Gennaioli, A. Shleifer and R. Vishny, A Model of Shadow Banking

October 2012: Accepted at Journal of Financial Economics for publication
Barbara Rindi, Sabrina Buti, Undisclosed Orders and Optimal Submission Strategies in a Limit Order Market"

September 2012: Accepted at Journal of Finance for publication
Paolo Colla, Filippo Ippolito and Kai Li, Debt specialization”

August 2012: win the Best Conference Paper Prize at the European Finance Association Meeting in Copenhagen
Hannes Wagner, Paolo F. Volpin and Karl V. Lins with the paper Does Family Control Matter?

July 2012: Accepted for presentation at  AFA  
Nicolas Serrano-Velarde, Giacomo Rodano and Emanule Tarantino, The Causal Effect of Bankruptcy Law on the Cost of Finance   

November 2011: Accepted at Review of Financial Studies for publication 
Hannes Wagner, Julian Franks, Colin Mayer and Paolo Volpin, The Life Cycle of Family Ownership: International Evidence '';

June 2011: The following papers have been accepted for presentation at AFA
Paolo Colla, Kai Li, and Filippo Ippolito,Debt Specialization'';
Barbara Rindi, Sabrina Buti, and Ingrid M. Werner, Dark Pool Trading Strategies;
Barbara Rindi,Yuanji Wen, Sabrina Buti, and Ingrid M. Werner, Tick Size Regulation, Intermarket Competition and Sub-Penny Trading;
Roberto Steri, Claudio Tebaldi, and Filippo Ippolito, The Relative Leverage Premium'';

June 2011: Accepted at Journal of Financial Economics for publication
Andrea Beltratti and René Stulz, The credit crisis around the globe: Why did some banks perform better ''.