
Courses a.y. 2024/2025
Biographical note
I am an Assistant Professor of Accounting Analytics and Data Science at Bocconi University. I graduated in Astrophysics and Space Physics from Università Degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca and obtained a Ph.D. in Applied and Computational Statistics from Politecnico di Milano. I have served as a reviewer for the following journals: Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Finance Research Letters, Journal of Business, Finance, and Accounting, and Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry. I consider myself an active developer of open-source tools.
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 employs computational and statistical approaches to gain insights into the behavior of companies and investors' perceptions. Specifically, I use and enhance Natural Language Processing techniques and language models to examine the impact of financial and non-financial disclosures on key financial performance. Additionally, I leverage Deep Learning-based Computer Vision methods to extract visual information from financial disclosures. Furthermore, I investigate the economic implications of Blockchain and other Distributed Ledger Systems, exploring their potential to foster novel research avenues and revolutionize accounting practices. Finally, I work on time-to-event models and their stochastic properties to study the dynamic process that generate the observable accounting information at hand.
Research Grants
- CIVICA Research Grant. EXECML --- Using Machine Learning to Uncover Subjective Incentives in Executive Compensation, with IE University and Stockholm School of Economics. Total amount: 35,000 € (June 2024 - May 2026).
- CIVICA Faculty Short Visits Program. Optimal Benchmarking for Mutual Fund Performance Evaluation with Natural Language Processing, IE University, Madrid, Spain (March 2024).
- Bocconi Senior Researchers' Grants - Co-P.I. Multi-modal Communication in Corporate Reporting: Combining Words and Images in Corporate Disclosure. 9,000 € (November 2020 - November 2021)
- Bocconi Junior Researchers' Grants - P.I. edgartools: an Open Source Library to Efficiently Collect Financial Filings from SEC EDGAR Database. 8,000 € (May 2019 - May 2020).
Working papers
Using Narrative Disclosures to Predict Tax Outcomes
(revising for 3rd round review at Review of Accounting Studies)
Investor Distraction and Multi-Dimensional Financial Narrative
(revising for 3rd round review at Review of Accounting Studies)
FinTag2Text: Mapping Financial Statement Disclosures with XBRL Data
(Under Review)
Tax-induced Share Repurchases and Corporate Investment During Crisis
(Preparing for submission)
Quantifying Subjective Incentives in Executive Compensation Disclosures: Evidence from DEF14A Filings
(Data collection complete. Preliminary analysis initiated)
Three Decades of Tax Avoidance Research: The Role of Networks and Communities in Shaping the Field
(Empirical analyses completed. Draft in preparation)
Selected Publications
Value relevance of textual characteristics: evidence from annual reports of U.S. listed firms
2025
Risk guidance and anti-corruption language: evidence from corporate codes of conduct
JOURNAL OF RISK RESEARCH, 2024
Tax avoidance research : exploring networks and dynamics of global academic collaboration
2024
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
Environmental awareness and shareholder proposals: the case of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE, Forthcoming
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
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
Hα3: an Hα imaging survey of HI selected galaxies from ALFALFA I. Catalogue in the local supercluster
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS, 2012
Hα3: an Hα imaging survey of HI selected galaxies from ALFALFA II. Star formation properties of galaxies in the Virgo cluster and surroundings
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS, 2013
L’Intelligenza Artificiale nel rilevamento, prevenzione e gestione delle frodi contabili e fiscali
BILANCIO E REVISIONE, 2024
L'analisi testuale della disclosure finanziaria: dal machine learning al deep learning
RIVISTA DEI DOTTORI COMMERCIALISTI, 2023
Quando le immagini diventano un serbatoio di dati per le aziende
ECONOMIA & MANAGEMENT, 2022