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    24/05 - If you want to self-assess your readiness for the final exam, here you can find a GoogleForm (anonymous) with a battery of multiple choice questions and a handful of exercises to test your knowledge and skills. Exercises take some time, and the use spreadsheets will make them easier. Each right/wrong answer will be automatically scored, and you'll get a final assessment of your readiness, including questions where you got that wrong or you did not know the answer. The maximum score is 110, so it's easy to convert it in expected exam performance: 66/110 is 18/30, 77/110 is 21/30, 88/110 is 24/30, 99/110 is 27/30, and so on.

    03/05 - Back again with our planning issues. Due to the OpenDay, we lost 2 more hours of classes. Together with holidays, we are now 1 hour short for the 45 hours planned for this course. I have found a date/time/room that are free for a final recovery session. It can be on the 20th May (Friday), 14.00-16.00, in Room 3_B of Building D (as for the other recovery sessions). We will talk about it tomorrow, and see if this actually fits your agenda, before changing the calendar.

    02/05 - I have updated the presentation used by Bank of Italy in the seminar of a few days ago. As you know, unfortunately for our foreign students, everything is in Italian.

    25/04 - Attention please! The University cancelled all lectures taking place on the next Wednesday, to allow undergraduate students to attend the open-day for post-graduate courses. Therefore I had to revise, once again :-( , our workplan. I am sorry that your year was so unlucky, but as you can see it is not my fault, and there's little I can do about it...

    20/04 - We have the first confirmed guest speaker! On 18th May, Angelo Ciavarella will show up from London and entertain us on his long trading experience and on macrotrends influencing financial markets. I am quite confident that we will also have another guest speaker (on ESG/SRI), not so sure about a third one (on commodities/Islamic finance)... I'll let you know.

    04/04 - I updated the workplan due to a couple of clerical errors that mistakenly put classes on the two next holiday Mondays. Moreover, on the 26th of April the department will host a seminar from the Bank of Italy presenting their internal rating system for non-financial firms. It will take place in Room 1_A from 5 PM, but will also be accessible from Teams (link will be pulished here as soon as possible). The seminar is not part of our classes, but I invite you to attend since the topics are related to this course, and the speakers are highly distinguished. The seminar will be held in Italian language (sorry for our foreign students...). No news yet on our seminars for the last three classes: still working on those.

    08/03 - As discussed, we will host two recovery classes on Friday, 18th March and 25th March, from 14 to 16. We were assigned Room 3_B in Building D for this. The agenda is updated accordingly.

    28/02 - Online classes: check this TEAM.

    23/02 - Moodle Page created