Giulio Girardi
Principal Financial Economist, Office of Risk Assessment (DERA)
Education Summary
- Ph.D. in Economics, Suffolk University, Boston MA, 2012
- M.A. Economic Policy, Boston University, Boston MA, 2008
- M.S. in Economics, (Summa Cum Laude), University of Modena, Italy, 2005
- B.A. in Economics, (Summa Cum Laude), University of Modena, Italy, 2003
Fields of Interest
- Financial Crises
- Non-Bank Financial Institutions
- Portfolio Choice and Investment Decisions
- Principal Financial Economist
Division of Economic and Risk Analysis
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
April 2024 – Present - Senior Financial Economist
Division of Economic and Risk Analysis
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
March 2020 - April 2024 - Branch Chief/Supervisory Financial Economist
Division of Economic and Risk Analysis
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
April 2016 - February 2020 - Financial Economist
Division of Economic and Risk Analysis
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
2012 - April 2016 - Adjunct Professor
University of Massachusetts, Boston MA
Jan 2012 – June 2012 - Adjunct Professor
Northeastern University, Boston MA
Sept 2011 – June 2012 - Adjunct Professor
Suffolk University, Boston MA
Sept 2009 - Dec 2011 - Economist - Intern
Department of Revenue at Massachusetts Government,
Office of Tax and Policy Analysis, Boston MA
May 2009 - Sept 2009
- Randis Brown, Giulio Girardi, Y.C. Loon, Enrique Lopez, and Jovan Stojkovic, 2026, The Financial Conditions of Security-Based Swap Dealers, SEC White Paper
- Aragon George, Giulio Girardi, Tolga Ergun, and Mila Getmansky-Sherman, 2017, Hedge Funds: Portfolio, Investor, and Financing Liquidity, SEC White Paper
- “The Demand for Central Clearing: To Clear or Not to Clear, That Is the Question” (with M. Bellia, R. Panzica, Loriana Pelizzon, and Tuomas Peltonen), The Journal of Financial Stability, 72 (2024), 101247.
- Giulio Girardi, K. Hanley-Weiss, L. Pelizzon, S.Nikolova, and M. Getmansky Sherman, Forthcoming, Portfolio Similarity and Asset Liquidation in the Insurance Industry, Journal of Financial Economics, (October 2021), 142-1, pp. 69-96.
- Giulio Girardi, George Aragon, Tolga Ergun, and Mila Getmansky Sherman, 2021, Measuring Hedge Fund Liquidity Mismatch, The Journal of Alternative Investments, 2021.1.134.
- Giulio Girardi, C. Lewis and M. Getmansky-Sherman, 2016, Interconnectedness in the CDS Market, Financial Analysts Journal 72(4), 62-82-Awarded the Graham and Dodd Award of excellence in research and financial writing for best FAJ paper in 2016.
- A. T. Ergun and Giulio Girardi, 2013, Systemic Risk Measurement: Multivariate GARCH Estimation of CoVaR, Journal of Banking and Finance 37, 3169-3180.
- "Hedge Fund Liquidity Management: Insights for Fund Performance and Systemic Risk Oversight" (with G. Aragon and Tolga Ergun)
- "Cash Management and Extreme Liquidity Demand of Mutual Funds" (with C. W. Stahel and Y. Wu)
- “JPMorgan Chase London Whale Module F: Required Securities Disclosures” (with A. Metrick and A. G. Zeissler) Yale School of Management YPFS cases
Conference Activities
- Annual Conference on Financial Market Regulation (CFMR) (12th meeting), Washington DC, 2025
- Paper Presentation: University of North Carolina – Belk College of Business, Charlotte, 2025
- Paper Presentation: University of Massachusetts – Isenberg School of Management, Amherst, 2025
- Panel - The SEC Speaks with the Practicing Law Institute - Hedge Funds Liquidity Management: Insights for Systemic Risk Oversight, Washington DC, 2025
- Paper presentation, 8th Annual Conference on Financial Market Regulation (CFMR 2021), Washington DC, 2021
- Panel - University of Alabama, Culverhouse College of Business - Analytics Symposium: The SEC’s Use of Data Analytics, Tuscaloosa, AL 2019
- FSB/SCAV – Workshop on Systemic Stress Test and Interconnectedness, Washington DC, 2019
- Paper presentation, European Financial Management Association Annual Meeting, Milan, Italy, 2018
- SIFMA Panel - Use of Data Analytics to Enhance Compliance Programs Orlando, FL, 2018
- Paper presentation, Midwest Finance Association Annual Meeting San Antonio, TX, 2018
- Panel - The SEC Speaks with the Practicing Law Institute - Portfolio, Investor, and Financing Liquidity at Hedge Funds, Washington DC, 2018
- Paper presentation, Financial Stability Board, Workshop on Systemic Stress, Investor Behavior and Market Liquidity, Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 2017
- Paper presentation, Fourth Annual Conference on Financial Market Regulation, Securities and Exchange Commission, University of Maryland, Lehigh University, CFA Institute, Washington DC, May 2017
- Paper presentation, American Finance Association Conference, Chicago IL, January 2017
- Paper presentation, Arizona State University, W. P. Carey School of Business, Finance Brown Bag Series, Tempe AZ, November 2016
- Paper presentation, Federal Reserve Board, Finance Forum Series, Washington DC, November 2016
- Talk on Risk-Based Supervision, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, International Institute for Capital Market Compliance and Examination, Washington DC, June 2015
- Paper presentation, Systemic Risk Workshop, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, May 2015
- Paper presentation, The Consortium for Systemic Risk Analytics, "Interconnectedness in the CDS Market", MIT University, Cambridge MA, December 2014
- Talk, SEC Conference 2014: An Accounting & Reporting Update for Public Companies, "SEC’s Current Use of Data Analytics", McLean VA, June 2014, and Chicago IL, August 2014
- Talk, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, 24th Annual International Institute for Securities Market Development. "Risk Assessment in the Brokerage Industry", Washington DC, 2014
- Talk, Predictive Analytics Forum, Department of Labor. "Risk Assessment in the Brokerage Industry", Washington DC, 2014
- Talk, Predictive Analytics World Government Conference, "Risk Assessment in the Brokerage Industry", Washington DC, 2013
- Paper presentation, Eastern Finance Association Conference (48th meeting), Boston MA, 2012
- Paper presentation, “Conference on Hedge Funds - Hedge Funds, Market Liquidity and Systemic Risk” (4th edition), Paris, France, 2012
- Paper presentation, “Convergence, Interconnectedness, and Crises: Insurance and Banking”, Temple University, Philadelphia PA, 2011
- Paper presentation, Midwest Finance Association Conference (60th meeting), Chicago IL, 2011
- Paper presentation, International Paris Finance Meeting (8th edition), Paris, France, 2010
Last Reviewed or Updated: April 2, 2026