Julian Curator

Giuliano Antonio Curatola serves as an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Siena's Department of Economics and Statistics while holding a position as External Research Affiliate at the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE. His academic journey includes an MSc in Business Administration from the University of Calabria and a PhD in Finance from the Swiss Finance Institute and Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Prior to his current role, he contributed as an Assistant Professor at Goethe University Frankfurt. At Siena, he specializes in teaching Monetary Economics for the MSc in Finance program, International Economics, and Macroeconomics, bringing expertise in theoretical financial market models and their practical applications. His research portfolio spans equilibrium asset pricing, portfolio theory, behavioral finance, investment-specific shocks, and the relationship between asset prices and business cycles. Curatola has made significant contributions to academic literature, particularly in areas such as investor sentiment, sectoral stock returns, risk-taking incentives of inside debt, loss aversion in asset pricing, and his recent work explores international capital markets and technology trade with asymmetric tax regimes.