Dr. Irene Comeig is an Associate Professor of Finance (tenured) at the University of Valencia (Spain), Research Fellow at Harvard University (Women and Public Policy Program, Harvard Kennedy School; and Real Colegio Complutense Harvard), and a member of Veconlab at the University of Virginia, where she taught Corporate Finance as a Visiting Professor (2012–2015). She has also been a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Lausanne (Fall 2022) and Geneva (2007–2010). Her PhD received the Young Research Award in Economics (Complutense University of Madrid) and the Víctor Mendoza Award for PhD Theses, 1st accésit (Institute of Economic Studies, IEE, Spain).

Her research spans Behavioral Finance, Experimental Economics, SME Finance, and Risk Attitudes, using economic experiments to study decisions under risk and ambiguity. Recent work focuses on improving financing for women‑led ventures and integrating upside/downside risk behavior into insurance and entrepreneurial funding design.

Dr. Comeig serves on editorial boards at Journal of Economics and Finance, and Retos Revista de Ciencias de Administración y Economía; and has held roles at the Journal of Business Research, the European Journal of Management and Business Economics,  and the Journal of Innovation & Knowledge. She directed the Official Master's in Corporate Finance for over seven years, has supervised 4 PhD dissertations (one with the Prize for best doctorate student) and 20+ Master's Theses, presented at 100+ conferences, and participated in 18+ research projects, including as PI on INNACC00/2020/40 and INNACC00/19/054 funded by the Generalitat Valenciana.

Recent publications:

1- “Upside versus downside risk: Gender, stakes, and skewness” (with Charles A. Holt, and A Jaramillo-Gutiérrez), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 2022, Vol. 200 (August 2022), 21-30

2- “Are credit screening contracts designed for men?” (with A Jaramillo-Gutiérrez, and F Ramírez) Service Business, 2022, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11628-022-00485-w

3- “Institutional factors affecting entrepreneurship: A QCA analysis” (with P Sendra-Pons, and A Mas-Tur) European Research on Management and Business Economics 2022, Vol. 28 (3), 100187

4- “The paradox of (Inter) net neutrality: An experiment on ex-ante antitrust regulation” (with K Klaser, and LD Pinar), Technological Forecasting and Social Change 2022, 175, 121405

In media: Forbes Febr. 2023: New Academic Research Challenges Broadband Internet Rules (forbes.com)

Chicago Booth May 2023: https://www.promarket.org/2023/05/18/how-big-tech-uses-net-neutrality-to-subvert-competition/

https://laweconcenter.org/resources/regulatory-myopia-and-the-fair-share-of-network-costs-learning-from-net-neutralitys-mistakes/

5- "Conducta gregaria irracional en crowdfunding de recompensa: experimento de campo" (with Ramírez López, F. y Portilla-Salas, F.), Retos Revista de Ciencias de la Administración y Economía, 2023, 13(25), 9-19. https:// doi.org/10.17163/ret.n25.2023.01

Link to English version:https://retos.ups.edu.ec/index.php/retos/article/view/6861/6673

"Non-rational herding in reward-based crowdfunding: a field experiment "(with Ramírez López, F. y Portilla-Salas, F.), Retos Revista de Ciencias de la Administración y Economía, 2023, 13(25), 9-19. https:// doi.org/10.17163/ret.n25.2023.01

6- "Reproducibility in Management Science" (with Fisar, M., Greiner, B., Huber, C., Katok, E., Ozkes, A., and the Management Science Reproducibility Collaboration) (Note. Member of the Management Science Reproducibility Collaboration), Management Science, 2023, December, https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/epdf/10.1287/mnsc.2023.03556

7- "Impacts of FinTech funding announcements on traditional banks: An Event Study Analysis" (with Del Sarto, N. and Gai, L.), Journal of Economics and Business, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconbus.2024.106231

8- “The Allais Paradox and Upside/Downside Risk Preference: An Experimental Analysis With Probability Weighting and Chernoff Faces.” (with Charles Holt), Southern Economic Journal 2026, https://doi.org/10.1002/soej.70062

Professor in the Department of Corporate Finance at the Faculty of Economics, University of Valencia (UV). He holds a degree in Economics and Business Administration from the UV and completed the Pedagogical Adaptation Course (CAP), equivalent to a Master’s Degree in Secondary Education Teaching, at the Complutense University of Madrid. He earned a PhD in Financial Economics from the University of Valencia, with a doctoral dissertation entitled “Asset Pricing in the Spanish and European Capital Markets”, awarded Cum Laude.

His research activity focuses on Sustainable Finance, Corporate Governance, Board Gender Diversity, and Greenwashing. He leads the EFICO Research Group (Sustainable Finance, Corporate Governance and Greenwashing) and is also a member of the infoSOST Research Group (Corporate Information on Sustainability: Preparation and Verification). He has been a visiting researcher at the Centre of Finance & Economics (CEF.UP), University of Porto. He has participated as a speaker at more than forty national and international conferences and has published over thirty articles in prestigious academic journals, the majority of which are indexed in the first quartile of the Journal Citation Reports (JCR). These include Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management (First Decile), Business Strategy & Development (Q1), Corporate Governance: The International Journal of Business in Society (Q1), Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility (Q1), International Business Review (Q1), Journal of Business Research (Q1), Small Business Economics (Q1), European Journal of Finance (Q1), Sustainability – Entrepreneurial Sustainability: New Innovative Knowledge (Q2), Spanish Journal of Agricultural Research (Q2), Quantitative Finance (Q2), and Spanish Journal of Finance & Accounting, among others. He has received seven research awards from institutions such as the European Academy of Management and Business Economics, the International Conference on Gender Studies and Culture of Gender, the Association of Young Researchers in Economics and Business Management, the International Conference on Sustainability in Higher Education, and the Ibero-American Association of Management Control.

He serves as President of the International Conference on Sustainability in Higher Education (CISMES), and is a member of the Editorial Board of the scientific journal Business Strategy & Development (Q1, JCR) and serves on the scientific committees of several international finance conferences.

In the area of teaching, he lectures in Finance within the Bachelor’s Degree programmes in Business Intelligence and Analytics, as well as in the Double Degree in Business Administration and Management and Law, and in the Master’s Degree in Corporate Finance and the Master’s Degree in Business Management (MBA). He has published more than forty teaching-related papers, presented over thirty contributions at teaching conferences, and participated in seventeen educational innovation projects. He directs the Consolidated Educational Innovation Group GINFICO (Corporate Finance Innovation Group). He is the author of two teaching manuals and several book chapters, many published by Q1 publishers according to the Scholarly Publishers Indicators (SPI), and has received the Fernando Sapiña Award, as well as the award for Best Teaching Innovation Paper at the International Conference on Innovation, Documentation and Education. His teaching performance has been evaluated as Excellent by the DOCENTIA Teaching Quality Programme, achieving the highest possible rating.

Additionally, he has participated in research contracts with the Valencian Institute of Economic Research (IVIE) and within the R&D&I Programme of the Regional Ministry of Education, Culture and Universities (GVA). He has also taken part in numerous competitive research projects, including several knowledge transfer projects funded by the Valencian Innovation Agency (AVI) under the programmes “Complementary Actions to Promote and Strengthen Innovation” and “Valorisation and Transfer of Research Results to Companies”.

Federico Ramírez López has an International Doctor in Economics and International Commerce from the University of Valencia. He has been a professor in the Department of Business Finances of the University of Valencia since 2004. 
He has published research articles in prestigious international magazines such as Service Business, or Journal of Business Research. You also have a great name for papers presented at international Congresses. 
He has carried out research studies at the University of Geneva (Switzerland) and at the University of Virginia (USA). This research has focused mainly on behavioral finance, gender diversification, investment project financing and loans to small businesses. 
Use Experiments in Economics to study the financial decisions of economic agents. The latest research efforts study measures to improve the financing of investment projects directed by gifts and facilitate the access of gifts to million workers in competitive environments.