Credit Risk Modeler at La Caixa
Barcelona Area, Spain
Credit Risk Modeler at La Caixa
Barcelona Area, Spain
Mathematician and a PhD candidate in Finance. Interested in any field related to quantitative finance: derivatives, risk management, asset management...
As a researcher, I have explored the following areas in Finance and Corporate finance:
* Financial regulation
* Corporate control
* Risk management
* Asset pricing
* Asset Management
Financial regulation, Corporate control, Risk management, Asset pricing, Asset Management, Higher Education
(Privately Held; Banking industry)
January 2009 — Present (1 year )
(Privately Held; Banking industry)
May 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 8 months)
Construction and validation of credit risk models.
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
April 2003 — September 2007 (4 years 6 months)
Fall 2006 Instructor: Mathematical Finance (Undergraduate level).
Fall 2005 Teaching assistant: Investment (Graduate level).
Fall 2004 Teaching assistant: Investment (Graduate level).
Spring 2004 Teaching assistant: Advanced Microeconomics (Graduate level).
(Educational Institution; Research industry)
May 2003 — May 2007 (4 years 1 month)
I have provided research assistantship in the following projects:
Franzoni, F. and Marín, J. M. (2006). Pension plan funding and stock market efficiency. The Journal of Finance, 61(2):921–956.
Marín, J. M. and Olivier, J. (2006). The dog that did not bark: Insider trading and crashes. Mimeo, Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Financial Services industry)
July 2006 — September 2006 (3 months)
Analysis and back testing of investment strategies.
(Self-Employed; Banking industry)
September 2004 — January 2005 (5 months)
Participation in the project:
Exchange Rate Risk Pricing and Management of Long Term Loans in the Main Foreign Currencies Against the Tunisian Dinar.
(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2000 — May 2002 (2 years )
(Public Company; Utilities industry)
June 1999 — September 1999 (4 months)
PhD , Finance , 2003 — 2008
Thesis advisor: José M. Marín
Thesis Proposal: Essays on the behavior and regulation of insiders
Courses:
Real Analysis, Measure Theory (Prof. Gabor Lugosi)
Topics in Finance (Prof. Manuel Moreno)
Financial Economics I (Prof. Branko Urosevic)
Financial Economics II (Prof. José M. Marín and Giovanni Cespa)
Corporate Finance (Prof. Vicente Cuñat)
Banking (Prof. Xavier Freixas)
Visiting Fellow , Finance , 2006 — 2006
Courses attended:
Behavioral Finance (Professor Jeremy Stein)
Corporate Finance (Professors David Scharfstein and Jeremy Stein)
I worked on:
“Insider trading and welfare when information has social value”.
“Ownership Dynamics with Multiple Insiders: The case of REITs ”(with
Robert H. Edelstein, Branko Urosevic, and Nicholas Wonder).
“Firms vs. Insiders as Traders of Last Resort” (with José M. Marín).
Honorary Fellow , Finance , 2006 — 2006
I worked on:
“Firms vs. Insiders as Traders of Last Resort” (with José M. Marín).
MSc in Economics , Economics , 2002 — 2003
Courses:
Econometrics (Prof. José García Montalvo)
Macroeconomics I (Prof. Christian Haefke)
Microeconomics I (Prof. Fabrizio Germano)
Microeconomics II (Prof. Fernando Vega-Redondo)
Macroeconomics II (Prof. Jordi Galí)
Applied Time Series Analysis (Prof. Fabio Canova)
Microeconomics III (Prof. Sjaak Hurkens)
Internacional Finance (Prof. Jaume Ventura)
Macroeconomics III (Prof. Xavier Sala-i-Martin)
Graduate studies in quantitative finance , Finance , 2000 — 2001
Introduction to the economic environment and finance management.
Basic financial operations.
Money and fixed income markets.
Variable income and forex markets.
Modeling and pricing of variable income assets.
Numerical methods applied to finance.
Interest rate models.
Volatility and correlation.
Market vision and its implementation.
Quantitative risk management.
Portfolio management.
BSc in Mathematics , Mathematics , 1996 — 2000
Specialization in numerical methods and statistics.
Societat Catalana de Matemàtiques
2007 American Real Estate Society (ARES) Foundation Best Paper award at the 12th Asian Real Estate Society (AsRES) Annual Conference & The 2007 AREUEA International Conference.
2007-2008 Fundación Banco Herrero: Grant for scientific research 2007 for the work: ‘Insider trading and welfare when information has social value’
2003–. . . Graduate studies grant for the formation of researchers (PFI). Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology. Ref: BES-2003-2083
2006 Ayudas para estancias breves FPI. Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia. Grant for visiting Harvard University.
2003–2004 Ayudas para la movilidad de alumnos en programas de doctorado con mención de calidad. Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports.
1999–2000 Scholarship holder in the library of Ramon Llull Residence Hall (Col·legi Major Ramon Llull).