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= Mariano Massimiliano (Max) Croce = Mariano Massimiliano Croce is an economist born in Pantelleria, Italy, in 1978. He specializes in the fields of macroeconomics, asset pricing, international macrofinance.

Education
Croce moved to Milan in 1997 to start his undergraduate studies in economics at L. Bocconi University. He received his bachelor’s degree in economics in 2001 with a score of 110/110 cum laude. During the academic year 2001-2002, he received a master in economics from Bocconi University where he worked as TA. In 2002 he moved to New York City to start his PhD studies in Economics at the New York University. He received his PhD in economics in 2007 under the guidance of Tom Sargent, Sydney Ludvigson and Martin Lettau.

Academic Positions
In 2007 he joined the finance area of the UNC Kenan--Flagler Business School as an assistant professor of finance. In 2014 he was promoted to the rank of associate professor of finance (with tenure). In 2017, Croce was appointed as CEPR Research Fellow. He visited the finance department at the Wharton School during the academic years 2010/11 and 2015/16. He visited the economics department of STERN (NYU) in 2013, and the finance department of the University of Chicago BOOTH in 2015.

Other Appointments
In 2005, Croce was a visiting PhD student at the European Central Bank in Frankfurt. In 2006, Croce served as a research intern at Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington, D.C. He is a visiting scholar at the Indian School of Business since 2012.

Research
The research of Max Croce focuses on asset pricing in general equilibrium models in which there is uncertainty about the long horizon perspectives of the economy (growth news shocks). Projects include the study of international asset prices and exchange rates; the interaction between asset prices, investment decisions, wealth and welfare on a global scale; links between investors’ information and asset prices; growth implications of fiscal policy risks. He has published in leading academic journals such as, for example, The Journal of Political Economy, The American Economic Review, The Journal of Finance, The Journal of Financial Economics, The Review of Financial Studies, and The Journal of Monetary Economics.

Teaching
Max Croce teaches courses in global macroeconomics at several leading academic institutions such as Kenan-Flagler B.S. (UNC), Wharton, STERN, ISB.