Bio

Maria Flora is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Economics of University of Verona (Italy). Maria completed her Ph.D. at University of Padova (Italy) in 2019, under the supervision of Professor Tiziano Vargiolu . Her Ph.D. dissertation was ranked as excellent by world leading experts. During her Ph.D. experience, she has been a Visiting Research Scholar (in 2017-2018) at the Mathematical Institute , University of Oxford (UK).



Research Interests

Quantitative Finance, Energy Finance, Optimal control problems, Energy modeling and forecasting



         

Affiliations

2019 - today Post-Doctoral Research Fellow – Department of Economics, University of Verona (Italy)
2017 - 2018, 2020 Visiting Research Scholar – Mathematical Institute , University of Oxford (UK)
2021 (expected) Fellow – Collegio Carlo Alberto , University of Torino (Italy)

Peer-reviewed papers

Flora, M. and Vargiolu, T. (2020). Price dynamics in the European Union Emissions Trading System and evaluation of its ability to boost emission-related investment decisions. European Journal of Operational Research, 280(1), 383–394.
 
Andreis, L., Flora, M., Fontini, F. and Vargiolu, T. (2020). Pricing reliability options under different electricity price regimes. Energy Economics. [in press].

Working papers

Cartea, Á., Flora, M., Slavov, G. and Vargiolu, T. (2020). Optimal cross-border electricity trading.
 
Flora, M., Renò, R. (2020). Fragility of financial markets: the Italian debt not-so-flash crash.