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Francesco Saita

Department of Finance
Full Professor
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Bio

Dean for International Affairs, Bocconi University (since November 2024) and Professor of Financial Markets and Institutions in the Finance Department. 

Director of the Financial Education Research Unit at the Baffi Carefin research centre at Bocconi University. 

Previous positions at Bocconi include Head of the Department of Finance (2007-2010), Dean of the Graduate School (2010-2014), Director of the Carefin research centre (2011-2014), and Director of the Baffi Carefin research centre (2015-2017). From August 1994 to February 1995, visiting scholar at the Salomon Center of the Stern School of Business, New York University. Member of the G53 Financial Literacy and Personal Finance Research Network, of the editorial board (Comitato di Redazione) of Quaderni CONSOB, of the Scientific Committees of both the Italian national committee for financial education (Comitato Edufin) and of the Fondazione per l'Educazione Finanziaria e al Risparmio (Financial Education and Saving Foundation), and honorary member of the Association of Italian Financial Risk Managers (AIFIRM).

Research Interests

Financial literacy and financial education, risk management in banks, asset management companies and life insurance companies, and derivatives.

Publications

Online financial and demographic education for workers: experimental evidence from an Italian pension fund
JOURNAL OF BANKING & FINANCE, 2023
Financial and demographic education effectiveness in academic and vocational high schools: a randomised experiment
in Financial education and risk literacy, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021
Who intends to become financially literate? Insights from the Theory of Planned Behaviour
Quaderni di Finanza CONSOB, 2019
Risk-Adjusted Performance Measurement under Model Risk
in Managing and Measuring Capital for Banks and Financial Institutions, Risk Publications, London, 2012
Pricing multiasset equity options: How relevant is the dependence function?
Journal of Banking & Finance, 2010
Principles of Risk Aggregation
in Pillar II in the New Basel Accord. The Challenge of Economic Capital, Risk Publications, London, 2008
Measuring Value at Risk in Project finance transactions
European Financial Management, 2007
Value at Risk and Bank Capital Management. Risk Adjusted Performances, Capital Management and Capital Allocation Decision Making
Elsevier Academic Press, Advanced Finance Series, Burlington, MA, 2007
Risk management for asset managers: A test of relative VaR
Journal of Asset Management, 2005
Measuring Risk-Adjusted Performance for Credit Risk
Performance Measurement Frontiers in Banking and Finance, EGEA, Milano, 2004
Il controllo dei rating assegnati
Rating interni e controllo del rischio di credito, Bancaria, Roma, 2004
Banks' Market Risk Management and Capital Regulation: A Critical Assessment
Financial Services in the Evolving Global Marketplace, Hofstra University, Hempstead, 2002
L'allocazione del capitale: profili teorici e problematiche operative
La gestione del capitale e la creazione di valore in banca, Edibank, Roma, 2002
L'ALM nelle imprese di assicurazione sulla vita
Quaderni ISVAP, n. 12, 2001
Il risk management in banca. Performance corrette per il rischio e allocazione del capitale
EGEA, Milano, 2000
Allocation of Risk Capital in Financial Institutions
Financial Management, Autumn, 1999
Customer Needs and Front-Office Technology Adoption
International Journal of Bank Marketing, 1997

Teaching

20189
QUANTITATIVE FINANCE AND DERIVATIVES - MODULE 2
Past years teaching

Additional teachings info

Quantitative Finance and Derivatives II (MSc in Finance).