Patrizio Tirelli is Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics, Management and Statistics of University of Milano-Bicocca. He as been the director of the same departement until October

Matteo Pelagatti is Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, Management and Statistics of the University of Milano-Bicocca. He holds a PhD in Statistics from the University of Milan and his research interests are mainly in the fields of time series analysis, energy markets, robust statistics, but occasionally cover also health sciences and other

Claudio Morana is Professor of Economics at the University of Milan-Bicocca (Italy). He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Aberdeen (Aberdeen, UK). He has been consulting the European Central Bank and he is an Executive Committee Member of the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics (SNDE), Fellow of the Center for

Professor of Econometrics at DEMS - Department of Economics, Management and Statistics, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy. He is also senior research fellow at the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano, Italy, where he has coordinated the research programme on International Energy Markets and he is currently leading the research projects on Financial Speculation in

Carlo Favero holds a D.Phil. from Oxford University, where he was a member of the Oxford Econometrics Research Centre. He has been professor of Econometrics at Bocconi University from 1994 to 2001 and professor of Economics since 2002. In 2009 he joined the newly formed Dept of Finance at Bocconi University, where he teaches

Emilio Colombo is Associate Professor of Economics, University of Milano-Bicocca. He hold a PhD at the University of Southampton. His research interests are in international finance, macroeconomics and applied economics. He has published on several high quality journals such as the Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of International Money and Finance, Regional Studies, European Journal

Andrea Beltratti is currently Chairman of Eurizon Capital SGR, the asset management arm of the Italian Banking Group Intesa Sanpaolo and Professor of Economics at Bocconi University (Milan). He is also Chairman of the Financial Education Foundation, set up by the Italian Banking Association to promote financial education. He obtained his P.h.D. in Economics