Role
Full Professor of Financial Economics at the University of Turin and Fellow of the Collegio Carlo Alberto.
Bio
Giovanna Nicodano, a graduate and Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton, is a full professor of Financial Economics at the University of Turin and a fellow of the Collegio Carlo Alberto. She is a Research Fellow of CEPR, a Research Associate of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI), and an International Research Fellow of Netspar.
She combines intense academic research in finance with governance experience as a board member (in a banking holding company, a company controlled by the Ministry of Economy and Finance, a private asset management company, and a foundation), as a member of a European advisory body on systemic risk, and as a leader of national academic assessment and institution-building initiatives. She currently teaches Monetary Economics and Asset Pricing & Portfolio Choice at the University of Turin and is a visiting scholar at Imperial College London.
He participates in discussions on economics and economic policy, and regularly attends scientific conferences at European universities and institutions. He serves on the organizing committees of major finance conferences, including the CEPR European Conference on Household Finance, meetings of the European Finance Association, and the Edinburgh Corporate Finance Conference.
His research focuses on portfolio management, corporate finance, and market regulation. He has studied corporate group dynamics, ownership structures, leverage, and tax and regulatory impacts, including venture capital incentives and insider trading rules.