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MORILLAS JURADO, FRANCISCO GABRIEL

MORILLAS JURADO, FRANCISCO GABRIEL

PDI-Titular d'UniversitatDirector/a Titulacio Master Oficial

Facultat d'Economia Avda Tarongers s/n 46022 València (Despatx 2A07)

(9616) 25384

francisco.morillas@uv.es

GONZALEZ BAIXAULI, EUSEBIO CRISTOBAL

GONZALEZ BAIXAULI, EUSEBIO CRISTOBAL

PDI-Titular d'Universitat
BADAL VALERO, ELENA

BADAL VALERO, ELENA

PDI-Prof. Permanent Laboral Ppl
MARTINEZ DE LEJARZA ESPARDUCER, JUAN

MARTINEZ DE LEJARZA ESPARDUCER, JUAN

PDI-Titular d'Escola Universitaria
BALLESTER MIQUEL, LAURA

BALLESTER MIQUEL, LAURA

PDI-Titular d'UniversitatDirector/a Titulacio Master Oficial

Office 5B05 Faculty of Economics University of Valencia Avenida de los Naranjos s/n 46022 Valencia

(9616) 25079

laura.ballester@uv.es

Biography
 

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I am licensed in (2004) from the University of Valencia (UV) with the Diploma of Professional Specialization in Spanish Financial Bags and Markets (UV-DEIT). Master in quantitative banking and finance, interuniversity program with quality mention. Doctor in quantitative finance (2010) by the UV. I was beneficiary for two years of an Aseval scholarship (Aviva’s Group) for doctoral studies and a mobility scholarship of the Ministry of Education and Science.

I am part of the Department of Financial and Actuarial Economy of the UV since 2011 and previously, I belonged to the Department of Economic Analysis and Finance of the University of Castilla La Mancha.

framed in the area of quantitative finances, my research career has mainly directed to the analysis and measurement of financial risks, specifically, the study of the risk of interest and credit risk. I have participated in 10 competitive research projects, one of them international based in Cass Business School, 5 financed by the Ministry, 2 by the Ramón Areces Foundation (in one of them as the main researcher), another funded by the UV where I was a principal investigator and another regional financed by the Board of Communities of Castilla La Mancha. In addition, I participated as a team member in a research contract with the Valencian Institute for Economic Research (IVIE). I have received the Doctoral Thesis Award (2010) of the Economic and Social Council of the Valencian Community and the Prize for Teaching Excellence of the UV Social Council in 2019.

I have been speaker at more than 45 national and international congresses and assisted more than 35 courses related to research and teaching. I have two research sexenios (ANECA). I have published in magazines ofImpact as Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, Emerging Markets Review, Journal of Empirical Finance, International Review of Financial Analysis, International Review of Economics and Finance, Finance Research Letters and Research In International Business and Finance.

I have organized various activities related to research among which stand out the 15th Infiniti Conference on International Finance held at the Faculty of Economics of the UV in 2017 and the annual Event of Finance Research Letters in its editions of 2020, 2021 and 2022 held outside Spain. I have participated as a court member in two doctoral theses, one of them in the UV and the other at the University of Castilla La Mancha. I have been a member of the Academic Committee of the Chair in International Finance of the Santander Bank from 2014 to 2018. I have been Guest Editor in four Special Issues in the magazine Finance Research Letters where I am editor-in-chief from September 2021.

Regarding teaching, I certify university teaching experience of more than 2,500 hours given (between grade and master) and three quinquenios of teaching recognized. Teaching evaluations are considered very positive having recognized two periods of teacher with excellent qualification and a global score average in the 2023-2024 course of 4.72 out of 5. I give matters that cover multiple areas in finance: portfolio theory, financial mathematics, finance, markets and assets of fixed income and titling and credit risk. Accumulation 148 hours of teaching in company practices, 366 hours in the direction of TFG and 135 hours in TFM. From 2011 to the present I have directed 46 TFG and 17 TFM. Among these, 5 of them belong to the master's degree in banking and quantitative finance and the rest to the Master in UV actuarial and financial sciences. In addition, I have participatedin 27 reading courts in the aforementioned masters.

Regarding the performance of another university teaching activity, it is worth highlighting the delivery of the courses "Finance I" and "Finance II" for the Nau Gran de la UV during three academic courses, the course "Financial Education, Retirement and Pension Plans" for the University Balearic PROJECT ”, one in the UV and one at the international level for FGV EAESP (São Paulo).


I have participated in 7 educational innovation projects as a team member, 4 of them from the UV and 2 of the University of La Rioja and the University of Castilla La Mancha. I have organized 7 days and seminars of teaching innovation, I have 6 teaching publications, 10 presentations in teaching congresses and 19 courses received from university teacher training.

I have been coordinator of the third course of the degree in Finance and Accounting of the UV from 2012 to 2021, a member of the CCA of the Master in Actual and Financial Sciences since 2018 and I have been secretary of the Department of Financial and Actuarial Economy from 03/2021 to 03/2025.

VIDAL LLANA, JUAN JOSE

VIDAL LLANA, JUAN JOSE

PDI-Ajudant Doctor/A

Office: 2E11

28562

juan.j.vidal@uv.es

Biography
 

(he/him) BSc in Mathematics from the University of Valencia. MSc in Actuarial and Financial Sciences from the University of Valencia. PhD in Business from the University of Barcelona. He currently works as a professor at the University from Valencia in the area of Applied Economics and as a technological consultant for the transformation of industry 4.0, optimization of production in factories with Big Data and improved customer service. Chartered actuary with 3+ years of experience training and deploying models of large-scale Machine Learning in multinational insurers for a more accurate customer pricing. Among his publications are methodologies based on Machine Learning to compare years with low mobility of the population (such as 2020 due to Covid-19), in order to rate more precisely to the insured. He also has publications applying and improving Quantile Regression algorithms to predict large risks in data telematics and in the valuation of financial assets with the objective of detect potential losses in portfolios. Finally, he studies interconnection of the financial markets to estimate the impact of anomalous events such as wars and financial crises in other countries.

Interests: Regression Analysis, Automobile Insurance, Risk Assessment, International Finance, Asset Allocation

DUART REDON, JOSEP IGNASI

DUART REDON, JOSEP IGNASI

PAS-Administratiu/Va