User profiles for Roberto Savona

Roberto Savona

University of Brescia
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Cited by 341

Fitting and forecasting sovereign defaults using multiple risk signals

R Savona, M Vezzoli - Oxford Bulletin of Economics and …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
In this article, we try to realize the best compromise between in‐sample goodness of fit and
out‐of‐sample predictability of sovereign defaults. To do this, we use a new regression‐tree …

[PDF][PDF] Machine learning for financial stability

L Alessi, R Savona - Data Science for Economics and Finance …, 2021 - library.oapen.org
What we learned from the global financial crisis is that to get information about the
underlying financial risk dynamics, we need to fully understand the complex, nonlinear, time-varying, …

Hedge fund systemic risk signals

R Savona - European Journal of Operational Research, 2014 - Elsevier
In this paper, we realise an early warning system for hedge funds based on specific red flags
that help detect the symptoms of impending extreme negative returns and the contagion …

Risk and beta anatomy in the hedge fund industry

R Savona - The European Journal of Finance, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Based on a Bayesian time-varying beta model, we explore how the systematic risk exposures
of hedge funds vary over time conditional on some exogenous variables that managers …

Sovereign and Hedge Fund Systemic Risks

R Savona, E Ciavolino - The Journal of Alternative …, 2016 - search.proquest.com
To better explain the connection between hedge funds and sovereign risk in the Eurozone
and to shed light on hedge fund dynamics relative to the surge in sovereign spreads, the …

Corporate default prediction model averaging: A normative linear pooling approach

S Figini, R Savona, M Vezzoli - Intelligent Systems in …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Focusing on credit risk modelling, this paper introduces a novel approach for ensemble
modelling based on a normative linear pooling. Models are first classified as dominant and …

Learning about Unprecedented Events: Agent-Based Modelling and the Stock Market Impact of COVID-19

D Bazzana, M Colturato, R Savona - 2021 - JSTOR
We model the learning process of market traders during the unprecedented COVID-19 event.
We introduce a behavioral heterogeneous agents’ model with bounded rationality by …

Sovereign risk zones in Europe during and after the debt crisis

V Arakelian, P Dellaportas, R Savona… - Quantitative …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
We employ a machine learning approach to build a European sovereign risk stratification
using macroeconomic fundamentals and contagion measures, proxied by copula-based credit …

Danger zones for banking crises in emerging markets

P Manasse, R Savona, M Vezzoli - International Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This paper employs a recently developed statistical algorithm in order to build an early
warning model for banking crises in emerging markets. The procedure creates many ‘artificial’ …

[BOOK][B] Gli hedge fund–Rendimento, rischio e valutazione della performance

IG Basile, R Savona - 2007 - iris.unibs.it
Gli hedge fund hanno origine negli Stati Uniti negli anni cinquanta e mirano a realizzare
performance positive indipendentemente dai trend dei mercati finanziari. La possibilità di …