
Emilio Barucci
Full professor
Curriculum
Academic education
Laurea in Economia e Commercio (University of Florence), 1991, summa cum laude
1991 - 1993: PhD student in Economics, University of Siena
1992 - 1993: Research student London School of Economics (UK)
Academic career
1993 - 1998: Ricercatore, University of Florence
1998 - 2001: Associate Professor of Financial Mathematics, University of Pisa
1999 - 2004: Coordinator of the Phd program in Mathematics for Economic Decisions, University of Pisa.
2001 - 2005: Full Professor of Financial Mathematics, University of Pisa
2005 - present: Full Professor of Financial Mathematics, Politecnico di Milano
2010 - present: Director of the Corso di Alta Formazione in Finanza Quantitativa, MIP-Politecnico di Milano.
2011 - present: Director of the QFinLab, Nicola Bruti Liberati Quantitative Finance Lab.
2019 - present: Director of the International Master in Fintech.
Teaching
Finanza Matematica I
Activities
2005- : Director of the Quantitative Finance Group of the Department of Mathematics, Politecnico di Milano (five researchers, three Phd students, two post doc students). 2008- : Founder and coordinator of the web site on economic policy analysis www.nelmerito.com. 2014-: Founder and coordinator of the web site on capital markets, financial intermediation and regulation www.finriskalert.it. 2010- : Director of the post graduate course on Quantitative Finance, MIP-Politecnico di Milano. 2019- : Director of the international master course on Fintech, MIP-Politecnico di Milano. 2011- : Director of the QFinLab, Nicola Bruti Liberati Quantitative Finance Lab-Politecnico di Milano. 2011- : In cooperation with the Bachelier society, the Department of Mathematics promoted the international Bruti Liberati prize for the best Phd thesis on quantitative finance (leading prize worldwide in the field). 2000- : Founder of the Italian Quantitative Finance workshop (reference scientific initiative in the Italian community). 2015-: Member of the scientific committee of the Department. 1999-2003: Coordinator of the Phd in Mathematics for Economic Decisions, University of Pisa. 2011- 2013: Scientific coordinator of Fondazione Di Vittorio (CGIL trade unions). 2007- : Independent director of the Aviva group in Italy. Member of the audit committee of the risk and of the remuneration committee, chairman of the risk committee. 2016-: Independent director of Dea Capital Alternative Funds sgr. 2017-: Appointed by the President of the Italian Republic expert of the Consiglio Nazionale dell’Economia e del Lavoro (CNEL). Columnist for Avvenire. Previously for La Repubblica (Florence edition), L’Unità and Europa. |
Research Interests
- Financial Economics
- Asset Pricing
- Mathematical Finance
- Corporate Finance
- Macroeconomics
- FinTech
- Financial Education
- Banking
- Privatization
Publications:
- P.F.Asso, E.Barucci, ``Ricardo on the National Debt and its redemption: some notes on an unpublished ricardian manuscript"; Economic Notes, 1988, 5-37. Reprinted in Debt and Deficits, L. Kaounides, G. Wood eds., Edward Elgar, Vol.I, 99-130, 1992.
- P.F.Asso, E.Barucci, ``Editing Ferrara's Complete Works: Technical and Scientific Issues"; Revue Europeenne des Sciences Sociales, XXX, 47-68, 1992.
- E.Barucci, P.Zezza, ``Optimal Control Theory and the Reelection Problem: the Rise of a Political Business Cycle"; Rivista di Matematica per le Scienze Economiche e Sociali, 15, 25-45, 1992.
- E. Barucci, P.Zezza, ``Popularity and Reelection in a Macroeconomic Model"; Economic Notes, XXII, 17-36, 1993.
- E.Barucci, L.Landi, ``A neural network model for short term interest rate forecasting: the 12 months bot italian auction rate"; Neural Network World - International Journal on Neural and Mass-Parallel Computing and Information Systems, 6:625--656, 1993.
- E.Barucci, "Note al margine del mercato dei BOT: analisi e proposte"; Note Economiche, XXIV, 213-238, 1994.
- E.Barucci, G.M. Gallo, L.Landi, "Linear versus non--linear forecasting: a look at neural networks"; Computational Economic Systems Models, Methods & Econometrics, Gilli ed., 161-190, Kluwer, 1995.
- E.Barucci, P.Zezza, "Optimality conditions for control systems and economic applications"; Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Economiche e Commerciali, Aprile, XLII, 257-284, 1995.
- E.Barucci, U.Cherubini, L.Landi, ``Computational Methods in Finance: Option Pricing"; IEEE Computational Science&Engineering, spring, p.66-80, 1996.
- E.Barucci, L.Landi, ``Learning non-Rational Expectations Equilibria"; Rivista di Matematica per le Scienze Economiche e Sociali, Anno 18, p.15 -31, 1996.
- E. Barucci, L. Landi, ``Speculative Dynamics with Bounded Rationality Learning"; European Journal of Operational Research, 91, 1996, p.284-300.
- E. Barucci, U. Cherubini, L. Landi, ``No-Arbitrage Asset Pricing with Neural Networks under Stochastic Volatility"; Neural Networks in Financial Engineering, Eds. A. Refenes et al., 1996, p.3-16, World Scientific.
- E.Barucci, P.Zezza, ``Does a Life Cycle Exist for a Hedonistic Consumer?"; Mathematical Social Sciences, 32, 1996, p.57-69.
- E. Barucci, L. Landi, ``Reti Neurali per l'Analisi delle Serie Storiche: Aspetti Metodologici ed Applicazioni"; Ricerche Quantitative per la Politica Economica 1995, Banca d'Italia-CIDE, p.275-337, 1997.
- E.Barucci, U.Cherubini, L.Landi, ``Neural Networks for Contingent Claim Pricing via the Galerkin Method"; Advances in Computational Economics, Amman, Rustem, Whinston eds., Kluwer, 1997.
- E.Barucci, L.Landi, ``Least Mean Squares learning in Self-Referential Linear Stochastic models"; Economics Letters, vol. 57 (3), p.313-317, 1997.
- E.Barucci, L.Landi, ``Nonlinear versus Linear learning models: a procedural perspective", Computational Economics, vol. 12 (2), p.171-191, 1998.
- E.Barucci, F.Gozzi, ``Investment in a Vintage Capital Model"; Research in Economics, vol.52 (2), p.159-188, 1998.
- E. Barucci, ``Optimal Investment Policy under Increasing Returns to Scale", International Economic Review, 1998, 789-808.
- E.Barucci, F.Gozzi, V.Vespri, ``On a Semigroup Approach to No-Arbitrage Pricing Theory"; Proceedings of the Seminar on Stochastic Analysis, Random Fields and Applications, Birckauser Verlag, 1999.
- E. Barucci, F. Gozzi, ``Optimal Advertising with a Continuum of Goods", Annals of Operations Research, 88, 1999:15-29.
- E.Barucci, M.E.Mancino, ``Wiener Chaos and Hermite Polynomials Expansions for Pricing and Hedging Contingent Claims", Advances in Futures and Options Research, 10, 1999: 103-134.
- E. Barucci, ``Memory, learning and the selection of equilibria in a model with nonuniqueness'', Computational techniques for modelling learning in economics, T. Brenner ed., 1999, Kluwer: 243-260.
- E. Barucci, ``Heterogeneous beliefs and learning in forward looking economic models'', Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 9, 1999: 453-464.
- E. Barucci, G. I. Bischi, L. Gardini, ``Endogenous Fluctuations in a Bounded Rationality Economy: Learning non Perfect Foresight Cycles'', Journal of Economic Theory, 1999, 87: 243-253.
- E. Barucci e R. Monte, ``Diffusion processes for asset prices under bounded rationality''; Trends in Contemporary Infinite Dimensional Analysis and Quantum probability. Essays in honour of Takeguki Hida, in the occasion of his 70-th birthday, L. Accardi, H.H. Kuo, L. Streit, S. Si, K. Saito eds., Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Kyoto, 2000, 37-55.
- E. Barucci, ``Differential Games with Nonconvexities and Positive Spillovers''; European Journal of Operations Research, 2000, 121: 193-204.
- E. Barucci, ``Exponentially Fading Memory Learning in Forward Looking Economic Models"; Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2000, 24: 1027-1046.
- E. Barucci, F. Gozzi, A. Swiech, ``Incentive Compatibility Constraints and Dynamic programming in continuous time"; Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2000, 34:471-509.
- E. Barucci, ``Fading memory learning in a class of forward looking models with an application to the hyperinflation dynamics''; Economic Modelling, 2001, 18: 233-252.
- F. Antonelli, E.Barucci, M.E. Mancino, ``Asset pricing with endogenous aspirations''; Decisions in Economics and Finance, 2001, 24: 21-41.
- F. Antonelli, E. Barucci, M. Mancino, ``Asset pricing with a backward and forward stochastic differential utility'', Economics Letters, 2001, 72, pp.151-157.
- E.Barucci, S. Polidoro, V. Vespri, ``Some Results on Partial Differential Equations and Asian Options''; Mathematical Methods and Models in Applied Mathematics, 2001, 11, 3, pp.475-497.
- E. Barucci, F. Gozzi, ``Technology Adoption and Accumulation in a Vintage Capital Model", Journal of Economics, 2001, 74, 1, pp.1-38.
- E. Barucci, R. Reno', ``On Measuring Volatility of diffusion processes with high frequency data'', Economics Letters, 2001, 74, 371-378.
- F. Antonelli, E. Barucci, M. E. Mancino, ``A comparison result for backward stochastic differential equations with applications", Mathematical Methods for Operations research, 2001, 54, 3, 407-424.
- E. Barucci, R. Reno' ``On measuring voaltility and GARCH models forecasting performance''; Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, 2002, 12: 183-200.
- E. Barucci, R. Reno', ``Value at risk wsith high frequency data'', New trends in banking management, Zopuonidis ed., Physica Verlag, 2002, 223-232.
- E. Barucci, P.Malliavin, M.E. Mancino, R. Reno', A.Thalamier ``The price-volatility feedback rate: an implmentable mathematical indicator of market stability'', Mathematical Finance, 2003, 13: 17-35.
- E.Barucci, C.Impenna, R.Reno' ``The italian overnight market: microstructure effects, the martingale hypothesis and the payment system''; Temi di Discussione, 2003, nr. 475.
- E.Barucci, C.Bianchi, S.Mancini ``Una analisi dell'effetto degli studi degli analisti finanziari sulle serie storiche dei prezzi e dei volumi'', Bancaria, Dicembre, 2003.
- E. Barucci, R. Monte, R. Reno' ``Asset prices anomalies under bounded rationality''; Computational Economics, 23, 2004: 255-269.
- E.Barucci and V.Faralli, ``Una metodologia per l'individuazione di fenomeni di market abuse nei mercati finanziari'', Banca, Impresa e Societa', 2004: 515-532.
- E.Barucci, C.Bianchi, A.Passaponti ``Comportamenti imitativi tra gli analisti finanziari'', Rivista di Politica Economica, 2005: 103-137.
- E.Barucci, A.Monti ``Una analisi della reazione del mercato alle variazioni delle partecipazioni rilevanti delle societa' quotate nel mrcato finanziario Italiano'', Banca Impresa e Societa', 2005: 379-401.
- E.Barucci, J. Falini ``Determinants of corporate governance in the Italian financial market'', Economic Notes, 34, 2005: 371-405.
- E. Barucci, C.Bianchi, M. Frediani ``CEO turnover in the Italian financial market'', Giornale degli Economisti, 65, 2006: 127-154.
- E.Barucci, C.Bianchi, A.Manconi ``Internal dealing regulations and insiders' trades in the Italian financial market'' , European Journal of Law and Economics, 22, 2006: 107-119.
- E. Barucci, C. Bianchi, F. Casciari, E. Squillantini ``Definizione di una metodologia per l'individuazione di fenomeni di market abuse'', Statistica Applicata, 2006: 559-571.
- E. Barucci e F. Mattesini, Bank shareholding and lending: complementarity or substitution? Some evidence from a panel of large Italian firms, Journal of Banking and Finance, 2008: 2237-2247.
- E. Barucci e M.E. Mancino, Computation of volatility in stochastic volatility models with high frequency data, International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance, 2010, 13, 767-787.
- E. Barucci, D. Magno, M.E. Mancino, Fourier volatility forecasting with high frequency data and microstructure noise, Quantitative Finance, 2012, 2: 281-294.
- E. Barucci e D. Marazzina, Optimal Investment, Stochastic Labor Income and Retirement, Applied Mathematics and Computation, 2012, 218: 5588- 5604.
- E. Barucci e M. Tolotti, Identity, Reputation and social interaction with an application to sequential voting, Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination, 2012, 7:79-98.
- E. Barucci e L. Del Viva, Countercyclical Contingent Capital, Journal of Banking and Finance, 2012, 36: 1688-1709.
- E.Barucci e M. Tolotti, Social interaction and conformism in a random utility model, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2012 36 (12): 1855-1866.
- E. Barucci e L. Del Viva, Dynamic Capital Structure and the Contingent Capital Option, Annals of Finance, 2013, 9: 337-364.
- E. Barucci e M. Casna, On the market selection hypothesis in a mean reverting environment, Computational Economics, 2014, 44, 101-126.
- E. Barucci e F. Gazzola Prices in the utility function and demand monotonicity, Kodai mathematical journal, 2014, 37: 544-568.
- E. Barucci e A. Cosso, Portfolio choices and VaR constraint with a defaultable asset, Quantitative Finance, 2015, 5: 853-864.
- E. Barucci e D. Marazzina, Risk seeking, non convex remuneration and regime switching, International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance, 2015, 18: 12-37.
- E. Barucci, R. Baviera, C. Milani, Is the comprehensive assessment able to capture banks' risks?, Finance Research Letters, 2016, 19: 98-104.
- E. Barucci and D. Marazzina, Asset management, High Water Mark and flow of funds, Operations Research Letters, 2016, 44: 607-611.
- E. Barucci, R. Baviera, C. Milani, Is the comprehensive assessment really comprehensive?, European Journal of Finance, 2018, 1: 1-19.
- E. Barucci, D. Marazzina, G. La Bua, On relative performance, remuneration and risk taking of asset managers, Annals of Finance, 2018, forthcoming.
- E. Barucci, C. Milani, Do European banks manipulate risk weights?, International Review of Financial Analysis, 2018 forthcoming.
Working Papers
- E. Barucci, E. Biffis e D. Marazzina, Health Insurance, Portfolio Choice, and Retirement Incentives
- E. Barucci, T. Colozza, C. Milani, State aids to the banking system in the EU.
- E. Barucci e T. Colozza, Convergence of financial systems and the crisis.
- E. Barucci, D. Marazzina, E. Mastrogiacomo, Asset allocation with minimum guarantee.
- E.Barucci, T.Colozza, D.Marzzina, E.Rroji, Lapse rate modeling in life insuarnce
- E.Barucci, D.Brigo, M.Francischello, D.Marazzina On the design of sovereign bond-backed securities
Books
1) Emilio Barucci, Teoria dei mercati finanziari, 2000, Il Mulino.
2) Emilio Barucci, Financial Markets Theory, 2003, Springer&Finance.
3) Emilio Barucci, Claudio Marsala, Matteo Nencini, Carlo Sgarra Ingegneria Finanziaria, 2009, EGEA editore.
4) Emilio Barucci, Mercato dei Capitali e corporate governance in Italia, 2006, Carocci Editore.
5) Emilio Barucci e Federico Pierobon, Le privatizzazioni in Italia, 2007, Carocci editore.
6) Emilio Barucci e Federico Pierobon, Stato e mercato nella seconda repubblica, 2010, Il Mulino.
7) E. Barucci e C. Fontana Financial Markets Theory, second edition, Springer&Finance, 2017.
8) E. Barucci Chi salverà la finanza, EGEA, 2018.
9) E. Barucci Who will rescue finance?, Bocconi University Press, 2019.
Volumi curati:
E. Barucci e M. Messori (a cura di), Oltre lo shock, EGEA editore, 2009.
E. Barucci, C. De Vincenti e M. Grillo (a cura di), Idee per l'Italia. Mercato e Stato, Brioschi Editore 2010.
Edizione italiana di J. Quiggin Zombie Economics EGEA edizioni, 2012.
E. Barucci e M. Messori (a cura di), Towards the European Banking Union, Passigli
editore, 2014.
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