Bio
Graziano Moramarco is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Corporate Finance at SAIS Europe
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Bologna, Department of Economics
Graziano Moramarco is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Bologna, Department of Economics. His main research interests are in empirical macroeconomics and applied econometrics. He worked as an economist at Prometeia, a consultancy and economic research company, in areas related to quantitative methods for macroeconomics and finance. In 2011 he was awarded the "Guido Paolucci" Rotary Prize for the best graduate of the University of Bologna, School of Political Sciences. Moramarco holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Bologna. For a recent curriculum vitae including a full list of publications,
see personal website.
Courses
- Fundamentals of Corporate Finance
This course provides an introduction to key issues in modern finance: corporate investment and financing decisions, the valuation of assets in financial markets and the relationship between risk and return. The course addresses the interactions between firms, financial markets and financial intermediaries, comparing patterns of corporate financing and governance around the world. The analytical and quantitative tools provided by the lectures include: financial statement analysis, the present value method of valuation, statistical tools for the analysis of risk and return, the capital asset pricing model (CAPM), the basics of options and theories of capital structure. The course emphasizes the role of risk in corporate finance and the international dimension of the topics discussed.