He received his PhD from the Catholic University of Milan, with a dissertation on equity warrant pricing. He was Visiting PhD Candidate at the Birkbeck University of London, and Associate Lecturer of Risk Management at the Leeds University Business School. His research interests embrace asset pricing theory applied to corporate finance, risk management and derivatives, corporate valuation, corporate governance, and household finance, and he published on these topics several papers appeared in international finance journal, such as the Journal of Banking and Finance, the North American Journal of Economics and Finance, the European Journal of Finance, Quantitative Finance, the Journal of Futures Markets, Applied Financial Economics, Applied Economics, and the Journal of Financial Management, Markets and Institutions.