I am Associate Professor at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy. I hold a M.Sc. in Economics from the University of Warwick, UK, and a Ph.D. from the University of Bergamo, Italy. I visited Imperial College Business School in London, and the Stockholm School of Economics. I worked on derivatives' market efficiency and on the interactions between financial variables and the business cycle. My most recent research interests are on household finance and their interactions with demographics.