Valentina Raponi

Assistant Professor of Financial Management

• Ph.D. in Finance, Imperial College Business School
• Ph.D. in Methodological Statistics, University of Rome La Sapienza
• M.Sc. in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science
• M.Sc. in Statistics and Economics, University of Rome La Sapienza
• B.Sc. in Statistics and Economics, University of Rome La Sapienza

Valentina Raponi is Assistant Professor in the Financial Management Department. She holds a Ph.D. in Finance from Imperial College Business School, a Ph.D. in Methodological Statistics from the University of Rome La Sapienza, an M.Sc. in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science, an M.Sc. in Statistics and Economics from the University of Rome La Sapienza and a B.Sc. in Statistics and Economics from the University of Rome La Sapienza.

Her research interests include Financial Econometrics, Asset Pricing and Portfolio Choice, Econometric Theory and Machine Learning. Her dissertation has been published on the Review of Financial Studies.

Before joining IESE Business School, Assistant Professor Raponi also worked as an intern at the European Central Bank, the Bank of Italy and the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance.

Areas of interest.

* Financial Econometrics
* Empirical asset pricing
* Asset pricing anomalies
* Portfolio Choice
* Econometric Theory
* Machine Learning

Publications

Journal Articles (refereed)

MERLO, L., PETRELLA, L., RAPONI, V. (2021). Forecasting VaR and ES using a joint quantile regression and its implications in portfolio allocation. Journal of Banking & Finance, 133, Article 106248. doi:10.1016/j.jbankfin.2021.106248. MERLO, L., PETRELLA, L., RAPONI, V. (2020). Sectoral decomposition of CO2 world emissions. A Joint quantile regression approach. International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics, 14 (2-3), 197-239. doi:10.1561/101.00000116. RAPONI, V., ROBOTTI, C., ZAFFARONI, P. (2020). Testing Beta-Pricing Models Using Large Cross-Sections. The Review of Financial Studies, 33 (6), 2796-2842. doi:10.1093/rfs/hhz064.

Working Papers

KIM, S., RAPONI, V., ZAFFARONI, P. (2024). Testing for weak factors in asset pricing. RAPONI, V., ZAFFARONI, P. (2024). Dissecting anomalies in conditional asset pricing. RAPONI, V., UPPAL, R., ZAFFARONI, P. (2024). Robust Portfolio Choice.