Dr. Irene Comeig has recently been appointed a research fellow at Harvard University (USA), at the Harvard Kennedy School in the Women and Public Policy Program (WAPPP), and a member of the Veconlab at the University of Virginia (USA). She is an Associate Professor of Finance (with tenure) at the University of Valencia (Spain) and taught Corporate Finance as a Visiting Professor at the University of Virginia (USA), Department of Economics, from 2012 to 2015. She has also been a Visiting Professor at the University of Lausanne (Fall 2022) and at the University of Geneva (November 2007-October 2010). Her PhD Thesis obtained the Young Research Award in Economics from the General Foundation of the Complutense University of Madrid, and the Victor Mendoza Award for PhD Theses (1st accésit) from the Institute of Economic Studies (IEE, Spain).

Her main areas of research interest include Behavioral Finance, Experimental Economics, SME Finance and Risk Attitudes. She uses Economics Experiments to analyze behavior and financial decisions of economic agents under risk and ambiguity. Her recent work studies measures that improve the financing of entrepreneurial projects led by women and the integration of women in competitive environments such as science, industry or politics.

Dr. Irene Comeig has served in editorial roles at Journal of Economics and Finance (current Editorial Board Member), Journal of Business Research, European Journal of Management and Business Economics, and Retos, Revista de Ciencias de Administración y Economía (current Editorial Board Member), and, for more than seven years, has held administrative positions such as Director of the Official Master in Corporate Finance. She has supervised 4 PhD dissertations (one with the Prize for best doctorate student) and more than 20 Master Thesis, and participated in more than 100 international and Spanish conferences. She has participated in 18 research projects, being the Principal Researcher of the INNACC00/2020/40 and INNACC00/19/054 projects funded by the Government of 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

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

In teaching, I lecture on Finance in the Business Intelligence and Analytics degree programmes, as well as in the double degree in Business Administration and Management and Law. I also teach in the Master’s in Corporate Finance and the Master’s in Business Management (MBA). I have published over forty teaching papers, presented more than thirty conference papers, and participated in seventeen educational innovation projects. I lead the Consolidated Group for Teaching Innovation in Corporate Finance (GINFICO), and I am the author of two manuals and several book chapters —many published by Q1-ranked publishers according to SPI. I have received the Fernando Sapiña Award and the Best Teaching Innovation Paper award at the International Conference on Innovation, Documentation and Education.

In research, I lead the EFICO group (Sustainable Finance, Corporate Governance and Economics: https://www.uv.es/efico) and focus on Sustainable Finance, Corporate Governance and Board Gender Diversity, having also worked on Asset Pricing and the impact of the economic and industrial environment on financial decisions. I have participated as a speaker at more than forty prestigious international and national conferences, including: European Financial Management Association (EFMA), Global Innovation and Knowledge Academy (GIKA), Annual Conference ASFAAG: Academy of Sustainable Finance, Accounting, Accountability & Governance, EMAN Europe Conference: New Perspectives on Sustainability in the European Context, International Conference on Advanced Research Methods and Analytics (CARMA), International Congress of Accounting, Auditing and Finance - Sustainable Finance (ICAAF), International Scientific-Business Conference - Leadership, Innovation, Management and Economics; Integrated Politics of Research (LIMEN) and Spanish Finance Association (AEFIN), among others. I have published more than thirty articles in prestigious journals, most of which are indexed in the first quartile according to Journal Citation Reports (JCR), such as: Corporate Social Responsibility And Environmental Management (First Decile), Business Strategy and 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), y Spanish Journal of Finance & Accounting, entre otras. A su vez, he recibido siete premios de investigación otorgados por The European Academy of Management and Business Economics, International Conference on Gender Studies and Culture of Gender, Association of Young Researchers in Economics and Business Management (AJICEDE), International Conference on Sustainability in Higher Education y Ibero-American Management Control Association.

Chair of the International Congress on Sustainability in Higher Education. I am a member of the Editorial Board of the scientific journal Business Strategy & Development (indexed in Q1 according to JCR) and a member of the scientific committee of several international finance conferences.

In addition, I have participated in research contracts with the Valencian Institute of Economic Research (IVIE) and have been part of various research projects, including several transfer projects awarded by the Valencian Innovation Agency (AVI) within the framework of ‘Complementary actions to promote and strengthen innovation’. I have also collaborated on other transfer projects also awarded by the AVI in the line ‘Valorisation and transfer of research results to companies’.

[Biography, english version]