Current Positions: Professor of Econometrics & Finance, Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), City University of London, UK (1999-present); Director, Centre for Econometric Analysis (CEA), Bayes Business School; Visiting Professor, CRED & University Paris II Pantheon-Assas, France (2015-present); Senior Fellow, Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis (RCEA) (2023-present); Steering Committee, Research Centre 'Centro Studi Economia Applicata (CSEA)' (2022-present); Panel Member, Philip Leverhulme Prizes in Economics 2022, 2025. Previous Positions: Professor of Econometrics, Department of Economics/Management, University of Bergamo (Italy) (Oct 2007-Feb 2024); Visiting Professor of Econometrics, Department of Economics, University of Bergamo (Italy) (Oct 1992-Sep 2007); Research Fellow, London Business School, London (UK) (1994-1999); Visiting Professor of Econometrics, New Economic School, Moscow (Russia) (1996-1999); Lecturer in Economics, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London (UK) (1992-1994); Research Officer, Institute of Economic and Statistics, University of Oxford (UK) (1991-1992).
Education
PhD in Economics (Oxford University, UK, 1987-1992); BSc in Economics (Pavia University, Italy, 1980-1985); High School (Liceo Classico Q. O. Flacco, Potenza, Italy, 1975-1980)
Background
Research Interests: Econometric methodology and applications, panel data econometrics, finance and financial econometrics. Specializations: Multivariate tests for volatility spillover, predictive ability tests, weak exogeneity and stability tests, Monte Carlo combined tests.
Miscellany
Place of Birth: Laurenzana (PZ), a small village in the Regione Basilicata (Italy).