8. Università degli Studi di Brescia, Brescia, Italy (2015 -) Member of the Committee of the Department of Economics and Management.

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EDUCATION__________________________________________________________________ 1. Università degli Studi di Brescia, School of Economics, Brescia, Italy (1990/1991 to

1998/1999)

Degree: Equivalent of a Bachelor of Science in Economics. Final grade: 110/110 cum laude.

Bachelor thesis title: “Stock Exchange Index Options and the case of the Italian MIBO 30”; supervisor: Professor Silvana Stefani.

2._{Columbia University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, New York City, USA} (2001/2002)

Degree: Master of Arts in Mathematics with a Specialization in the Mathematics of Finance. G.P.A.: 3.79.

Attended courses include: Continuous-Time Finance, Stochastic Methods in Finance, Numerical Methods in Finance, Monte Carlo Methods in Financial Engineering and Security Pricing: Models and Computation.

3. Università degli Studi di Brescia, Brescia, Italy (1999/2000 - 2002/2003)

Degree: Equivalent of a Ph. D. in Mathematics for the Analysis of the Financial Markets.

PRESENT POSITION___________________________________________________________ 4._{Università degli Studi di Brescia, Brescia, Italy (11/1/2007 - )}

Assistant Professor for the research sector SECS-S/06 “Mathematical Methods of Economics and Actuarial and Financial Studies”.

ASSIGNMENTS

5._{Università degli Studi di Brescia, School of Economics (up to October, 2012) and} Department of Economics and Management (from November, 2012), Brescia, Italy (2009/2010 – 2012/2013)

Member of the Commission for the approval of the students’ plans of studies. 6._{Università degli Studi di Brescia, Brescia, Italy (2010/2011 – 2012/2013)}

Representative of the Assistant Professors in the Council of the School of Economics. 7._{Università degli Studi di Brescia, Brescia, Italy (2013 - 2014)}

Member of the Joint Commission of Faculty and Students of the Department of Economics and Management.

8._{Università degli Studi di Brescia, Brescia, Italy (2015 -)}

Member of the Committee of the Department of Economics and Management.

RESEARCH PROJECTS________________________________________________________ 9._{Università degli Studi di Brescia, Brescia, Italy (2001 - 2002)}

Research Grant for the project “Measurement and Valuation of the Performance of Investment Funds” under the supervision of Professor Paolo Falbo.

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10._{Università degli Studi di Brescia, Brescia, Italy (2001 - 2003)}

Scientific Research Programmes of Relevant National Interest (PRIN) partially financed by the Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, 2001 edition; participation to the research project “Credit and market risks: theoretical models, computational analysis and operating strategies” under the supervision of Professor Paolo Falbo.

11._{Columbia University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, New York City, USA} (2001/2002)

Project title: “Futures Portfolio Optimization Using Back-Testing and Historical Data Analysis”.

Project title: “Pricing Options on Several Assets under a Stochastic Volatility Model”. 12. Università degli Studi di Brescia, Brescia, Italy (2002)

Scientific research projects financed locally (former 60%), year 2002; participation to the research project “Speculative activity in the financial markets: a characterization of international market places” under the supervision of Professor Paolo Falbo.

13._{Università degli Studi di Brescia, Brescia, Italy (2003)}

Scientific research projects financed locally (former 60%), year 2003; participation to the research project “Portfolios of rules of market timing” under the supervision of Professor Paolo Falbo.

Scientific research projects financed locally (former 60%), year 2004; participation to the research project “Market timing and linear and non linear causality of the relationship between volumes and stock prices” under the supervision of Professor Paolo Falbo. 15._{Università degli Studi di Brescia, Brescia, Italy (2004 - 2005)}

Research Grant for the project “Market Timing Style and Portfolio Optimization” under the supervision of Professor Paolo Falbo.

Scientific research projects financed locally (former 60%), year 2005; participation to the research project “Risk management in the production of electricity” under the supervision of Professor Paolo Falbo.

17. Università degli Studi di Brescia, Brescia, Italy (2006)

Scientific research projects financed locally (former 60%), year 2006; participation to the research project “The information content of volume data in financial transactions: theory and empirical evidence” under the supervision of Professor Paolo Falbo.

18. Università degli Studi di Brescia, Brescia, Italy (2006 - 2007)

Research Grant for the project “Market Trading Styles of Investment Funds” under the supervision of Professor Paolo Falbo.

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Scientific research projects financed locally (former 60%), year 2007; participation to the

research project “Optimal parameterization of bootstrap methods for financial series” under the supervision of Professor Paolo Falbo.

Scientific research projects financed locally (former 60%), year 2008; participation to the research project “Optimization of energy production from conventional and renewable sources” under the supervision of Professor Paolo Falbo.

21. Università degli Studi di Brescia, Brescia, Italy (2008 - 2010)

Scientific Research Programmes of Relevant National Interest (PRIN) partially financed by the Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca, 2007 edition; participation to the research project “Risk Management in Electricity Markets” under the supervision of Professor Paolo Falbo. 22._{Università degli Studi di Brescia, Brescia, Italy (2009 - 2010)}

Scientific research projects financed locally (former 60%), years 2009 and 2010; participation to the research project “Optimal dimension of the transition matrix of a Markov chain” under the supervision of Professor Paolo Falbo.

Scientific research projects financed by Regione Lombardia for the realization of initiatives to increase the attractiveness of the Lombardia territory, to enhance the human capital and the scientific cooperation, 2009 edition; participation to the research project “Methods of

integration of renewable sources of energy and satellite monitoring of the environmental impact” under the supervision of Professor Elisabetta Allevi.

Scientific research projects financed locally (former 60%), years 2011 and 2012; participation to the research project “Financial and energy applications of a bootstrapping method based on multivariate Markov chains” under the supervision of Professor Paolo Falbo.

Announcement for the promotion and diffusion of international research activity, 2011 edition; participation to the research project “Technological innovation for the production of energy from renewable sources and emissions abatement policies” under the supervision of

Professor Paolo Falbo.

ORGANIZATIONS OF SCIENTIFIC EVENTS______________________________________ 26._{VII Meeting della Multinational Finance Society, Costermano (province of Verona), Italy}

(23-27 giugno 2001)

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27._{XXVI Meeting dell’Euro Working Group on Financial Modelling, Brescia, Italy (5-7} maggio 2005)

Member of the Organizing Committee.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS___________________________________ 28. Frontiers in Finance and Economics, 2008, vol. 5, no. 2

Special editor, with Paolo Falbo and Francesco M. Paris. 29. Applied Financial Economics

Referee.

PRESENTATIONS_____________________________________________________________ 30._{EURO XIX/INFORMS Joint International Meeting, Istanbul, Turkey (July 10, 2003)} Presentation of the results related to the research project “Clustering Technical Trading Rules”.

31._{XXVII A.M.A.S.E.S. National Meeting, Cagliari, Italy (September 4, 2003)} Presentation of the results related to the research project “Classifying Trading Rules”. 32._{XXVIII A.M.A.S.E.S. National Meeting, Modena, Italy (September 10, 2004)}

Presentation of the results related to the research project “La valutazione dei titoli indicizzati all’inflazione”.

33._{XXXV Euro Working Group on Financial Modelling, Almería, Spain (October 15, 2004)} Presentation of the results related to the research project “Trading Rules Clustering and ‘Market Timing Style’”.

34._{XXXVI Euro Working Group on Financial Modelling, Brescia, Italy (May 7, 2005)} Presentation of the results related to the research project “Labelling Market Timing Styles”. 35._{XXXVI Euro Working Group on Financial Modelling, Brescia, Italy (May 5, 2005)}

Presentation of the results related to the research project “Pricing Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS)”.

36._{XXXII A.M.A.S.E.S. National Meeting, Trento, Italy (September 4, 2008)} Presentation of the results related to the research project “Optimal Markov Chain Bootstrapping”.

37._{XLV Euro Working Group on Financial Modelling, Chania, Greece (October 15, 2009)} Presentation of the results related to the research project “Reducing the Order of Markov Chains in Multivariate Bootstrapping Problems”.

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38.₂₄th

European Conference on Operational Research – EURO XXIV LISBON, Lisbon, Portugal (14.7.2010)

Presentation of the results related to the research project “Modelling Policies for the EU ETS Allowances”.

39. XXXIV Convegno Nazionale A.M.A.S.E.S., Macerata, Italy (2.9.2010)

Presentation of the results related to the research project “A Tabu Search Solution in Markov Chain Bootstrapping”.

40._{XXXIV Convegno Nazionale A.M.A.S.E.S., Macerata, Italy (4.9.2010)}

Presentation of the results related to the research project “Row Clustering of a Markov Chain Transition Probability Matrix: A Mixed Integer Linear Programming Approach”.

41._{International Conference on Operations Research – OR 2011 Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland} (1.9.2011)

Presentation of the results related to the research project “A Markov Chain Method to Bootstrap Multivariate Continuous Processes”.

42.₄₂nd

Annual Conference of the Italian Operational Research Society - AIRO 2011 Conference, Brescia, Italy (7.9.2011)

Presentation of the results related to the research project “A Markov Chain Method to Bootstrap Multivariate Continuous Processes”.

43. XXXV Convegno Nazionale A.M.A.S.E.S., Pisa, Italy (16.9.2011)

Presentation of the results related to the research project “A Mixed Integer Linear Programming Approach for Markov Chain Bootstrapping”.

44._{Nineteenth International Conference on Forecasting Financial Markets: Advances for} Exchange Rates, Interest Rates and Asset Management, Marseille, France (23.5.2012) Presentation of the results related to the research project “A Characterization of Trading Styles”.

45._{IX International Summer School on Risk Measurement and Control, Rome, Italy} (23.6.2012)

Presentation of the results related to the research project “The Optimal Number of Certificates to Be Issued in Emission Markets”.

46.₂₅th

European Conference on Operational Research – EURO 2012, Vilnius, Lithuania (9.7.2012)

Presentation of the results related to the research project “A Mixed Integer Linear Programming Approach for Markov Chain Bootstrapping”.

47._{Conference on Energy Finance – EF 2012, Trondheim, Norway (5.10.2012)}

Presentation of the results related to the research project “Optimal Number of Certificates to be Issued in Emission Markets”.

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48._{INFORMS Annual Meeting 2012, Phoenix, AZ, USA (14.10.2012)}

Presentation of the results related to the research project “Optimal Number of Certificates to be Issued in Emission Markets”.

49._{EURO XXVI/INFORMS Joint International Meeting, Rome, Italy (3.7.2013)} Presentation of the results related to the research project “Stochastic Programming and Optimal Regulation of EU-ETS”.

50._{EURO XXVI/INFORMS Joint International Meeting, Rome, Italy (4.7.2013)} Presentation of the results related to the research project “A Markov Chain Method to Bootstrap Multivariate Continuous-Valued Stochastic Processes”.

51._{XIII International Conference on Stochastic Programming, Bergamo, Italy (11.7.2013)} Presentation of the results related to the research project “Stochastic Programming and Optimal Regulation of EU-ETS”.

52._{XIII International Conference on Stochastic Programming, Bergamo, Italy (12.7.2013)} Presentation of the results related to the research project “A Markov Chain Method to Bootstrap Multivariate Continuous-Valued Stochastic Processes”.

53._{Energy Finance 2013 Conference, Essen, Germany (11.10.2013)}

Presentation of the results related to the research project “Design of Efficient Cap-and-Trade Systems: An Equilibrium Analysis”.

54._{Dahrendorf Symposium 2013, Berlin, Germany (15.11.2013)}

Presentation of the results related to the research project “Overlapping Environmental Policies”.

55._{Mercati energetici e metodi quantitativi: un ponte tra Università e Aziende, Padova, Italy} (23.5.2014)

Presentation of the results related to the research project “Markov Chain Bootstrapping Multivariato sotto Vincoli di Contiguità”.

56.₇th

International Conference on Inverse Problems: Modeling and Simulation, Ölüdeniz - Fethiye, Turkey (28.5.2014)

Presentation of the results related to the research project “Relevant States and Memory in Markov Chain Bootstrapping and Simulation”.

57.₁₂th_{EUROPT Workshop on Advances in Continuous Optimization, Perpignan, France}

(12.7.2014)

Presentation of the results related to the research project “Complementarity Models for Integrating Renewable Energy Sources in Energy Markets”.

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58. 20th

Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies - IFORS2014, Barcelona, Spain (14.7.2014)

Presentation of the results related to the research project “Complementarity Models for Integrating Renewable Energy Sources in Energy Markets”.

59. XXXVIII Convegno Nazionale A.M.A.S.E.S., Reggio Calabria, Italy (5.9.2014)

Presentation of the results related to the research project “Cap-and-Trade Design and Intrinsic Boundaries to RES Conversion of Energy Systems”.

60._{Energy Finance 2014 Conference, Erice, Italy (26.9.2014)}

61.₅₅a

Riunione Scientifica Annuale della Società Italiana degli Economisti, Trento, Italy (25.10.2014)

PUBBLICATIONS_____________________________________________________________ PH. D. THESIS

Ph. D. thesis title: “Classifying Trading Rules According to Their Market Timing Style”. WORKING PAPERS

Quaderno n. 198 dei Rapporti di Ricerca del Dipartimento Metodi Quantitativi dell’Università degli Studi di Brescia: “Il MIBO 30: Verifica di Alcune Relazioni di Arbitraggio e

Scomposizione del Premio”.

Quaderno n. 259 dei Rapporti di Ricerca del Dipartimento Metodi Quantitativi dell’Università degli Studi di Brescia, coauthor Falbo P.: “Stable Classes of Technical Trading Rules”. 65._{Università degli Studi di Brescia, Brescia, Italy (2006)}

Quaderno n. 277 dei Rapporti di Ricerca del Dipartimento Metodi Quantitativi dell’Università degli Studi di Brescia, coauthors Falbo P., and Paris F. M.: “Pricing Inflation Linked Bonds”. 66._{Università degli Studi di Brescia, Brescia, Italy (2007)}

Quaderno n. 298 dei Rapporti di Ricerca del Dipartimento Metodi Quantitativi dell’Università degli Studi di Brescia, coauthors Falbo P., and Guerrini A.: “Optimal Portfolios of Trading Strategies”.

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Quaderno n. 299 dei Rapporti di Ricerca del Dipartimento Metodi Quantitativi dell’Università degli Studi di Brescia, coauthor Falbo P.: “Markov Chain Bootstrapping and Trading Rules Clustering”.

68. Università degli Studi di Macerata, Macerata, Italy (2009)

Quaderno n. 53 del Dipartimento di Istituzioni Economiche e Finanziarie dell’Università degli Studi di Macerata, coauthors Cerqueti R. and Falbo P.: “Optimal Dimension of Transition Probability Matrices for Markov Chain Bootstrapping”.

Quaderno n. 348 dei Rapporti di Ricerca del Dipartimento Metodi Quantitativi dell’Università degli Studi di Brescia, coauthor Falbo P.: “A Characterization of Trading Styles”.

Quaderno n. 361 dei Rapporti di Ricerca del Dipartimento Metodi Quantitativi dell’Università degli Studi di Brescia, coauthors Cerqueti R., Falbo P., and Guastaroba G.: “A Tabu Search Heuristic Procedure in Markov Chain Bootstrapping”.

71._{Università degli Studi di Macerata, Macerata, Italy (2012)}

Quaderno n. 67 del Dipartimento di Economia e Diritto dell’Università degli Studi di Macerata, coauthors Cerqueti R., Falbo P., Ricca F., and Scozzari A.: “A Mixed Integer Linear

Programming Approach to Markov Chain Bootstrapping”. 72._{Università degli Studi di Brescia, Brescia, Italy (2013)}

Working Paper no. 15 of the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Brescia, coauthors Cerqueti R., Falbo P., and Guastaroba G.: “Multivariate Markov Chain Bootstrapping and Contiguity Constraint”.

ARTICLES ON JOURNALS WITH REFEREEING PROCESS 73. Applied Economics, 2011, vol. 43, no. 14, 1769-1785 “Stable Classes of Technical Trading Rules”, with Falbo P.. 74._{Quantitative Finance, 2010, vol. 10, no. 3 (March), 279-293} “Pricing Inflation Linked Bonds”, with Falbo P. and Paris F. M..

75._{European Journal of Operational Research, 2013, vol. 227, no. 2, 367-384}

“A Tabu Search Heuristic Procedure in Markov Chain Bootstrapping”, with Cerqueti R., Falbo P., and Guastaroba G..

76._{Statistics & Applications, 2014, vol. 12, no. 1 (January-June), 87-114}

“Some Advances in Markov Chain Bootstrapping of Continuous-Valued Stochastic Processes”, with Falbo P..

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77._{Steland A., Rafajłowicz E. e Szajowski K. (editors), Stochastic Models, Statistics and Their} Applications - 12th Workshop on Stochastic Models, Statistics and Their Applications, February 2015, Wrocław, Poland, Springer International Publishing, 2015, vol. 122, 371-379

“Approximating Markov Chains for Bootstrapping and Simulation”, with Cerqueti R., Falbo P., and Guastaroba G..

78._{Steland A., Rafajłowicz E. e Szajowski K. (editors), Stochastic Models, Statistics and Their} Applications - 12th Workshop on Stochastic Models, Statistics and Their Applications, February 2015, Wrocław, Poland, Springer International Publishing, 2015, vol. 122, 261-269

“Risk-Averse Equilibrium Modeling and Social Optimality of Cap-and-Trade Mechanisms”, with Falbo P. and Hinz J..

79._{OR Spectrum, 2015, in press}

“Multivariate Markov Chain Bootstrapping and Contiguity Constraint”, with Cerqueti R., Falbo P., and Guastaroba G..

ARTICLES SUBMITTED TO JOURNALS

80._{Relevant States and Memory in Markov Chain Bootstrapping and Simulation} Submitted to European Journal of Operational Research.

81._{A Mixed Integer Linear Programming Approach to Markov Chain Bootstrapping} Submitted to OR Spectrum.

TRANSLATIONS

82._{Vita e Pensiero, Milan, Italy (2004)}

Italian translation of the book “Essential Mathematics for Economic Analysis” by Knut Sydsæter and Peter Hammond.

83. Pearson, Milan, Italy (2015)

Italian translation of the book “Essential Mathematics for Economic Analysis 4th Edition” by Knut Sydsæter and Peter Hammond with Arne Strøm.

PAPERS IN PROGRESS________________________________________________________ 84._{Complementary Models for Integrating Renewable Energy Sources in Energy Markets.} 85._{Optimal CO2 Emission Policies.}

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TEACHING EXPERIENCES_____________________________________________________ 87. Università degli Studi di Milano - Bicocca, School of Economics, Milan, Italy (2002/2003) Teaching assistant for the class of Financial Calculus of the First Level Bachelor Degree with concentration in Economics and Management of Tourist Services.

88. Università degli Studi di Brescia, School of Economics, Brescia, Italy (2002/2003) Teaching assistant for the class of Mathematical Methods for Economics of the First Level Bachelor Degree with concentration in Economics.

89._{Università degli Studi di Milano - Bicocca, School of Economics, Milan, Italy (2003/2004)} Teaching assistant for the class of Financial Calculus of the First Level Bachelor Degree with concentration in Economics of Banks, Insurances and Financial Intermediaries.

90._{Università degli Studi di Brescia, School of Economics, Brescia, Italy} (2003/2004-2004/2005)

Teaching assistant for the class of Mathematical Models for the Financial Markets of the First Level Bachelor Degree with concentration in Economics and Business Management and of the Second Level Bachelor Degree with concentration in Business Consulting and Business Administration Major Profession.

91._{Università degli Studi di Milano - Bicocca, School of Economics, Milan, Italy (2003/2004)} Teaching assistant for the class of Principles of Mathematical Finance of the First Level Master Degree in Quantitative Models for Banks and Insurance Companies.

92._{Università degli Studi di Brescia, School of Economics, Brescia, Italy (2004/2005)} Teaching assistant for the class of Mathematics for Derivatives of the Second Level Bachelor Degree with concentration in Money, Finance, and Risk Management.

Teaching assistant for the class of Mathematics for Derivatives of the Second Level Bachelor Degree with concentration in Money, Finance, and Risk Management.

Teaching assistant for the class of Stochastic Processes and Applications of the Second Level Bachelor Degree with concentration in International Economics.

95. Università degli Studi di Brescia, School of Economics, Brescia, Italy (2008/2009-2009/2010)

Teaching assistant for the class of Financial Calculus of the First Level Bachelor Degrees with concentration in Economics and Business Management, and in Economics and Management of Information and Communication.

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96._{Università degli Studi di Brescia, School of Economics, Brescia, Italy (2009/2010)}

Teaching assistant for the class of Mathematical Models for the Financial Markets of the Second Level Bachelor Degree with concentration in Business Consulting and Business Administration Major Profession.

97. Università degli Studi di Brescia, School of Economics (up to October, 2012) and Department of Economics and Management (from November, 2012), Brescia, Italy (2009/2010-2013/2014)

Teaching assistant for the class of Mathematical Methods for Finance of the Second Level Bachelor Degree with concentration in Money, Finance, and Risk Management.

98._{Università degli Studi di Brescia, School of Economics (up to October, 2012) and} Department of Economics and Management (from November, 2012), Brescia, Italy (2012/2013)

Teaching assistant for the class of Informatics for Finance of the Second Level Bachelor Degree with concentration in Money, Finance, and Risk Management.

99._{Università degli Studi di Brescia, School of Economics (up to October, 2012) and} Department of Economics and Management (from November, 2012), Brescia, Italy (2010/2011-2013/2014)

Teaching assistant for the class of Financial and Actuarial Calculus (A-G) and (H-Z) of the First Level Bachelor Degrees with concentration in Banking and Finance, in Economics and Business Management, and in Economics.

100._{Università degli Studi di Brescia, School of Economics (up to October, 2012) and} Department of Economics and Management (from November, 2012), Brescia, Italy (2011/2012-2014/2015)

Teacher for the class of Business Analysis and Modeling of the First Level Bachelor Degree with concentration in Economics and Business Management, in Banking and Finance, and in

Economics.

101._{Università degli Studi di Brescia, Department of Economics and Management, Brescia,} Italy (2014/2015)

Teacher for the class of Financial and Actuarial Calculus (O-Z) of the First Level Bachelor Degree with concentration in Economics and Business Management, in Banking and Finance, and in Economics.

OTHER JOB EXPERIENCES____________________________________________________ 102._{Banca Credito Agrario Bresciano S.p.A., Brescia, Italy (1992)}

Teller.

103._{Pelizzari & Bracchi S.n.c., Cazzago San Martino (province of Brescia), Italy (1992 to} 2000)

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LANGUAGES AND COMPUTING SKILLS_________________________________________ Languages: fluent in English and Italian. Working knowledge of French.

Applications: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, SAS, Microsoft VBA, and Scientific WorkPlace.