FRANCESCO GROSSETTI
Courses a.y. 2022/2023
30518 INTRODUCTION TO BLOCKCHAIN
30599 COMPUTATIONAL APPLICATIONS IN ACCOUNTING
Courses previous a.y.
Biographical note
I am an Assistant Professor of Accounting Analytics and Data Science. I graduated in Astrophysics and Space Physics from Università Degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca and hold a PhD in Applied and Computational Statistics from Politecnico di Milano.
About
Beyond research, I enjoy music and photography. I love to watch documentaries and love everything that is sci-fi and tech. In particular, I like to discover new software that is both open-source and useful. Last, space has always been my passion and I try to keep myself up-to-date with the latest news from the outer worlds.
Research interests
My research mainly uses computational and statistical techniques to understand firms’ behavior. In particular, I adopt and develop Natural Language Processing methods and language models to understand the effect of financial and non-financial disclosure over key financial performance. I work with annual reports, conference calls, sustainability reports, M&A press releases and shareholder proposals. In addition, I study the economic effects of Blockchain and other types of Distributed Ledger Systems and how these can facilitate the development of new streams of research together with a change in the practice of Accounting. I am an active developer of open-source tools (mainly in R) which can be used by anyone.
Selected Publications
Environmental Awareness and Shareholder Proposals: The Case of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Disaster
Corporate Governance: The International Journal of Business in Society, 2023
Risk Guidance and Anti-Corruption Language: Evidence from Corporate Codes of Conduct
Journal of Risk Research (forthcoming), 2023
Words and numbers: A disagreement story from post-earnings announcement return and volume patterns
FINANCE RESEARCH LETTERS, 2023
How did Covid-19 affect investors’ interpretation of earnings news? The role of accounting conservatism
FINANCE RESEARCH LETTERS, 2023
A statistical approach for optimal topic model identification
JOURNAL OF MACHINE LEARNING RESEARCH, 2022
Blockchain and other distributed ledger technologies: where is the accounting?
JOURNAL OF ACCOUNTING AND PUBLIC POLICY, 2021
Quando le immagini diventano un serbatoio di dati per le aziende
ECONOMIA & MANAGEMENT, 2022
Impact of in-hospital cardiac rehabilitation on mortality and readmissions in heart failure: A population study in Lombardy, Italy, from 2005 to 2012
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PREVENTIVE CARDIOLOGY, 26(8): 808-817., 2019
Multi-state approach to administrative data on patients affected by chronic heart failure
HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT SCIENCE, 21: 281–291., 2018