Nicola Borri joined the faculty at LUISS Guido Carli, as an Associate Professor, in 2009. His research interests focus on asset pricing, international finance and macroeconomics. His current research explores risk premia in the market for sovereign bonds and finds that the timing of the default of a country is a key determinant of bond yield spreads. His paper Sovereign Risk Premia (joint with Adrien Verdelhan) received the ABI Country Risk Forum Best Paper Award at the International Risk Management Conference 2010 and the 2010 WRDS Best Paper Award at the European Financial Management Association Conference. He received his undergraduate and master degree from Bocconi University, and a Ph.D in economics from Boston University in 2009.  He held a course of “Economic Perspective” at the School of Management of Fudan University.