Giorgio has received his Bachelor in Business Administration from the University of Genoa in 2012. He then moved to Vienna, where he obtained a Master Degree in Quantitative Finance in 2014 from WU Vienna. He completed in 2019 his PhD in Finance at the Vienna Graduate School of Finance, with a focus on institutional investors in fixed-income markets.

2019 Ph.D in Finance - Vienna Graduate School of Finance

2014 M.Sc. in Quantitative Finance - Vienna University of Economics and Business

2012 BA in Business Administration - University of Genoa

Empirical Asset Pricing, OTC Markets, Institutional Investors, Credit and Liquidity Risk

• Boons, Martijn, Ottonello, Giorgio, Valkanov, Rossen (2023). Do credit markets respond to macroeconomic shocks? The case for reverse causality. The Journal of Finance, 78 (5), 2901-2943.
• Jankowitsch, Rainer, Ottonello, Giorgio, Subrahmanyam, Marti G (2023). Regulation, asset complexity, and the informativeness of credit ratings. The Review of Corporate Finance Studies, 12 (3).
• Nagler, Florian, Ottonello, Giorgio (2022). Inventory-constrained underwriters and corporate bond offerings. The Review of Asset Pricing Studies, 12 (3), 639-666.