Alessandra Caragnano
Corporate Finance and Real Estate
Biography
Alessandra Caragnano is a Junior Researcher at SDA Bocconi – Corporate Finance & Real Estate.
After the master degree in Economics & Management curriculum in Corporate Finance & Banking at LUM University, she obtains the International Phd in “The Economics and Management of Natural Resources” - XXXI cycle. She carried out the visiting period at the School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University – Finance Department, recognised at an international level as an excellent university centre on the subject of Sustainable Finance.
She is a member of the COST research permanent group (European Cooperation in Science & Technology) and she is an analyst for the Standard Ethics rating agency.
From 2015 to 2021 she has been teaching assistant in Corporate Finance, Real Estate Finance, Financing Tools in the PA at LUM University and from 2017 to 2021 at the University of Bari Aldo Moro – Department of Economics and Finance, in Corporate Financial Policies and Finance Advanced Course. During the visiting period she acquired skills in Sustainable finance as well as in the PBL didactic approach (Project based learning method).
In 2019 she obtained the Best Paper Award for the paper “Do GHG emissions impact the cost of debt financing of European large companies?”, admitted and presented to the 3rd Social Impact Investments International Conference.
Teaching domains
Capital Structure
Financial Management
Corporate Sustainability
Real Estate Finance
Latest publications
Evoluzione di alcune metriche nel contesto della Finanza Aziendale
Egea, Milano, Italy, 2023
Catastrophe Bonds: A Mitigation Opportunity in Turmoil Period in Contemporary Issues in Sustainable Finance: Exploring Performance, Impact Measurement and Financial Inclusion
Mario La Torre, Sabrina Leo (Eds),Palgrave Macmillan UK, chap. 8, pp.187-228, 2023
Quanto impatta la sostenibilità sul costo del capitale
Economia & Management, 2022, no. 3, pp.62-67
Integrated reporting quality and cost of debt financing
Journal of Applied Accounting Research, 2022, vol.23, no. 1, pp.122-138
Does it pay to be environmentally responsible? Investigating the effect on the weighted average cost of capital
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 2021, vol.28, no. 6, pp.1854-1869
Extending the benefits of disclosure: The effect on the cost of debt financing
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 2021, vol.28, no. 4, pp.1412-1421
Grants & Honors
Best Paper Award for the paper: Caragnano A., Mariani M., Pizzutilo F., Zito M. “Do GHG emissions impact the cost of debt financing of European large companies?” - 3rd Social Impact Investments International Conference, Roma
, 2019