position for n. 1 private-sector fixed-term contract as ‘Tenure Track Assistant Professor’ at the Department of Business and Management

specific functions: the successful candidate will be employed at the Department of Business and Management. The selected assistant professor will undertake teaching and research duties in harmony with the belonging academic-discipline field and with the main research lines of the University, its Research Centers, and the Schools, on themes of Corporate Finance and Asset Pricing. He/She will have to be able to teach in Italian and/or in English. Teaching, supplementary teaching and student service activities will consist of 350 hours per year, of which 90 hours per year will be dedicated to frontal teaching activities. The teaching activity will be carried out as part of the planning of undergraduate, single-cycle and graduate’s degree courses of the University and will consist in carrying out lectures, exercises and theoretical-practical activities, assistance during exams, in any teaching assignments assigned as an institutional task, according to the provisions and within the limits of the law. The teaching activity will be carried out with reference to the academic-discipline field to which it belongs (SECS-P/09 Corporate finance).
Specific topics and functions are:
• funding of companies and relationships with banks, markets and other funders;
• valuation of companies and stock prices;
• machine learning in finance;
• sustainable finance and ESG criteria;
• bond pricing and the role of firms’ characteristics.