Studying at the University of Verona

Here you can find information on the organisational aspects of the Programme, lecture timetables, learning activities and useful contact details for your time at the University, from enrolment to graduation.

Academic calendar

The academic calendar shows the deadlines and scheduled events that are relevant to students, teaching and technical-administrative staff of the University. Public holidays and University closures are also indicated. The academic year normally begins on 1 October each year and ends on 30 September of the following year.

Academic calendar

Course calendar

The Academic Calendar sets out the degree programme lecture and exam timetables, as well as the relevant university closure dates..

Definition of lesson periods
Period From To
primo semestre lauree magistrali Oct 1, 2018 Dec 21, 2018
secondo semestre lauree magistrali Feb 25, 2019 May 31, 2019
Exam sessions
Session From To
sessione invernale lauree magistrali Jan 7, 2019 Feb 22, 2019
sessione estiva lauree magistrali May 27, 2019 Jul 5, 2019
Sessione autunnale Aug 26, 2019 Sep 13, 2019
Degree sessions
Session From To
Sessione autunnale (validità a.a. 2017/18) Dec 6, 2018 Dec 7, 2018
Sessione invernale (validità a.a. 2017/18) Apr 3, 2019 Apr 5, 2019
Sessione estiva (validità a.a. 2018/19) Sep 10, 2019 Sep 11, 2019
Holidays
Period From To
Festa di Ognissanti Nov 1, 2018 Nov 1, 2018
Festa dell’Immacolata Dec 8, 2018 Dec 8, 2018
Vacanze di Natale Dec 22, 2018 Jan 6, 2019
Vacanze di Pasqua Apr 19, 2019 Apr 23, 2019
Festa della liberazione Apr 25, 2019 Apr 25, 2019
Festa del lavoro May 1, 2019 May 1, 2019
Festa del Santo Patrono - S. Zeno May 21, 2019 May 21, 2019
Attività sospese (vacanze estive) Aug 5, 2019 Aug 23, 2019

Exam calendar

Exam dates and rounds are managed by the relevant Economics Teaching and Student Services Unit.
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Exam calendar

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Academic staff

B C D F G M P R S V Z

Bazzani Claudia

symbol email claudia.bazzani@univr.it symbol phone-number 0458028734

Bottiglia Roberto

symbol email roberto.bottiglia@univr.it symbol phone-number 045 802 8224

Bracco Emanuele

symbol email emanuele.bracco@univr.it symbol phone-number 045 802 8293

Broglia Angela

symbol email angela.broglia@univr.it symbol phone-number 045 802 8240

Brunetti Federico

symbol email federico.brunetti@univr.it symbol phone-number 045 802 8494

Bucciol Alessandro

symbol email alessandro.bucciol@univr.it symbol phone-number 045 802 8278

Carluccio Emanuele Maria

symbol email emanuelemaria.carluccio@univr.it symbol phone-number 045 802 8487

Confente Ilenia

symbol email ilenia.confente@univr.it symbol phone-number 045 802 8174

Cortese Mauro

symbol email mauro.cortese@univr.it

De Mari Michele

symbol email michele.demari@univr.it symbol phone-number 045 802 8226

Faccincani Lorenzo

symbol email lorenzo.faccincani@univr.it symbol phone-number 045 802 8610

Frigo Paolo

symbol email paolo.frigo@univr.it

Gnoatto Alessandro

symbol email alessandro.gnoatto@univr.it symbol phone-number 045 802 8537

Grossi Luigi

symbol email luigi.grossi@univr.it symbol phone-number 045 802 8247

Mancini Cecilia

symbol email cecilia.mancini@univr.it

Menon Martina

symbol email martina.menon@univr.it

Minozzo Marco

symbol email marco.minozzo@univr.it symbol phone-number 045 802 8234

Mion Giorgio

symbol email giorgio.mion@univr.it symbol phone-number 045.802 8172

Perali Federico

symbol email federico.perali@univr.it symbol phone-number 045 802 8486

Picarelli Athena

symbol email athena.picarelli@univr.it symbol phone-number 045 8028242

Pichler Flavio

symbol email flavio.pichler@univr.it symbol phone-number 045 802 8273

Renò Roberto

symbol email roberto.reno@univr.it symbol phone-number 045 802 8526

Rossi Francesco

symbol email francesco.rossi@univr.it symbol phone-number 045 8028067

Scricciolo Catia

symbol email catia.scricciolo@univr.it symbol phone-number 045 8028341

Signori Paola

symbol email paola.signori@univr.it symbol phone-number 0458028492

Zoli Claudio

symbol email claudio.zoli@univr.it symbol phone-number 045 802 8479

Study Plan

The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
Please select your Study Plan based on your enrollment year.

CURRICULUM TIPO:

2° Year   activated in the A.Y. 2019/2020

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
Stage
6
F
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Final exam
15
E
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activated in the A.Y. 2019/2020
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
Stage
6
F
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Final exam
15
E
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Modules Credits TAF SSD
Between the years: 1°- 2°

Legend | Type of training activity (TTA)

TAF (Type of Educational Activity) All courses and activities are classified into different types of educational activities, indicated by a letter.




S Placements in companies, public or private institutions and professional associations

Teaching code

4S006069

Credits

9

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

SECS-S/06 - MATHEMATICAL METHODS OF ECONOMICS, FINANCE AND ACTUARIAL SCIENCES

Period

secondo semestre magistrali dal Feb 24, 2020 al May 29, 2020.

Learning outcomes

The course aims to provide a quantitative approach for dealing with investment and consumption problems under uncertainty. Fundamental topics presented in the course are also related to the efficient structure of financial markets and equilibrium theory.

Students may find useful to follow this course after those of Mathematical Finance, Financial Risk management and, Portfolio Management and Equity markets.

Program

1. Choices in presence of risk: preliminary aspects
a) utility functions;
b) risk aversion;
c) stochastic dominance.

2. Portfolio theory in a single time period
a) utility maximization;
b) mean-variance. Markowitz portfolio theory;
c) insurance, saving and consumption.

3. General equilibrium theory
a) pareto-optimality;
b) equilibrium theory;
c) fundamental theorem of asset pricing;
d) CCAPM, CAPM e APT models.

4. Asset pricing models
a) historical risk and return;
b) markets efficiency;
c) multi-factor models: CAPM;
d) real options.

5. Dynamic portfolio theory, multiple time periods
a) optimal investment and consumption: dynamic programming principle;
b) equilibrium theory and fundamental theorem of asset pricing;
c) optimal investment and consumption in continuous time: Merton problem.

6. Technical analysis
a) the market system, price and volume dynamics as a function of time;
b) heuristic-quantitative models: indicators and oscillators, logistic function;
c) from basic models to operating systems, qualification of the current market phase, definition of operational
strategy, evaluation of the evolutionary potential and time horizon.


TEACHING METHOD:

The course articulates in lectures. Attending lectures is strongly recommended but not compulsory. Lecture slides will be made available on Moodle platform.
Tutoring activities are scheduled during the course.

Reference texts
Author Title Publishing house Year ISBN Notes
John J. Murphy Analisi tecnica dei mercati finanziari Hoepli, Milano 2002
Berk, J. and DeMarzo, P. Corporate Finance (Edizione 3) Pearson 2014 Chapters 10-13, 22.
Emilio Barucci, Claudio Fontana Financial markets theory (Edizione 2) Springer 2017 9781447173212

Examination Methods

The exam consists of a written test of two hours with exercises and theoretical questions on the whole program. The results obtained in the exercises assigned by the professor during the course contribute to the final evaluation.

*Emergency Coronavirus (summer section 2020) : The exam consists of a written multiple choice test and an oral exam for all those who will pass the written test with a mark greater or equal than 15/30. The results obtained in the exercises assigned by the professor during the course constitute a bonus up to 3/30 on the final evaluation.

Students with disabilities or specific learning disorders (SLD), who intend to request the adaptation of the exam, must follow the instructions given HERE

Type D and Type F activities

List of courses with unassigned period
years Modules TAF Teacher
Data discovery for business decisions D Claudio Zoli (Coordinator)
Elements of financial risk management D Claudio Zoli (Coordinator)
Introduction to business plan D Paolo Roffia (Coordinator)
SFIDE - Europe D Claudio Zoli (Coordinator)
1° 2° Advanced risk and portfolio management bootcamp (online) (3 cfu) D Roberto Renò (Coordinator)
1° 2° Advanced risk and portfolio management bootcamp (onsite) (6 cfu) D Roberto Renò (Coordinator)
1° 2° Convegno "gli scambi commerciali con l'estero: questioni fiscali, doganali e contrattuali" D Sebastiano Maurizio Messina (Coordinator)
1° 2° Ineka conference 2019 teamworking membership D Federico Brunetti (Coordinator)
1° 2° Introduction to Java programming D Alessandro Gnoatto (Coordinator)
1° 2° Data Visualization Laboratory D Marco Minozzo (Coordinator)
1° 2° Python Laboratory D Marco Minozzo (Coordinator)
1° 2° Advanced Excel Laboratory (Verona) D Marco Minozzo (Coordinator)
1° 2° Excel Laboratory (Verona) D Marco Minozzo (Coordinator)
1° 2° "le grandi trasformazioni degli anni '60-'70 e l'italia cinquant'anni dopo" D Angelo Zago (Coordinator)
1° 2° Social responsibility model for the restaurants' ecosystems D Silvia Cantele (Coordinator)
1° 2° Marketing Plan D Ilenia Confente (Coordinator)
1° 2° Polis - festival biblico in universita' D Giorgio Mion (Coordinator)
1° 2° Programming in Matlab D Diego Lubian (Coordinator)
1° 2° Programming in R D Diego Lubian (Coordinator)
1° 2° Programming Stata (3 cfu) D Diego Lubian (Coordinator)
1° 2° Quality and problem solving in business organizations D Paola Castellani (Coordinator)
1° 2° La competitività regionale e le sue risorse endogene: il concetto di capitale territoriale D Riccardo Fiorentini (Coordinator)
1° 2° Soft skills in action D Paola Signori (Coordinator)

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Graduation

List of theses and work experience proposals

theses proposals Research area
Tesi di laurea magistrale - Tecniche e problemi aperti nel credit scoring Statistics - Foundational and philosophical topics
Fattori ESG e valutazione d'azienda Various topics
Il metodo Monte Carlo per la valutazione di opzioni americane Various topics
Il Minimum Requirement for own funds and Eligible Liabilities (MREL) Various topics
L'acquisto di azioni proprie Various topics
Proposte Tesi A. Gnoatto Various topics

Linguistic training CLA


Gestione carriere


Internships


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