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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.

Lluís Gisbert Mocholí is an actuary specialized in corporate risk management and financial lines, with extensive experience in insurance, consulting, and business process transformation. He holds degrees in Actuarial and Financial Sciences and in Business Administration and Management from the University of Valencia, and has enhanced his training in insurance mediation and digital transformation for businesses.

His professional career spans actuarial consulting, risk management, and internal auditing for both insurance and non-insurance companies, leading projects and developing his own business initiatives. Currently, he combines his professional activity with teaching as an adjunct professor at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Valencia, bringing practical expertise in actuarial science, risk management, and financial analysis.

Amparo Nagore is tenured professor in the Financial and Actuarial Economics Department at the University of Valencia (UV). She holds bachelor's degrees in Business Administration (2000) and Actuarial and Finance Science (2001) from UV, and completed an Interuniversity Research Master in Quantitative Finance (2001-2003) funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology. Her professional experience includes research at the Valencia Institute of Economic Research (IVIE, 2003-2004), financial analyst at Econocom, Barcelona (2005-2006), structured finance analyst at Intermoney Titulización, Madrid (2006-2008), and Finance Analyst at Bank of Valencia (2008-2010). She began teaching at UV in 2008, initially as a part-time instructor in the  Department of Business Finances and Financial and Actuarial Economics Department and later as a teaching assistant in the Applied Economics Department (2010-2015). In 2015, she defended her doctoral thesis at Tilburg University (TU): "Essays on employment and unemployment transitions" in a joint PhD program between TU and UV, receiving an extraordinary PhD award. She subsequently worked as a researcher at LISER in Luxembourg before returning to the UV as an assistant professor in the Department of Financial and Actuarial Economics (2018), and was later promoted to a tenured professor (2020). Her academic achievements include a “Sexenio de Investigación” (research productivity assessment) from ANECA (2023) and accreditation as Associate Professor (May 2025).

Areas of specialization: applied labor economics, microeconometrics, economics of retirement and pensions, duration analysis, policy evaluation.

Hipolit Torro is currently professor of Financial Economics at the Universitat de València, Spain. He has a B.A. in Economics and Business Administration from the Universitat de València, a M.Sc. in Financial Mathematics from the Universities of Edingburgh and Heriot-Watt and a Ph.D. in Financial Economics from the Universitat de València. He has published a number of referred articles in finance and economics academic journals (Energy Economics, Energy Policy, The Journal of Futures Markets, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Quantitative Finance, The Journal of Risk, Journal of Banking and Finance,…) and he has contributed to several books and conference proceedings. He has participated as a lead investigating member in research projects funded by the Generalitat Valenciana, Fundación Caja de Madrid, the Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, and the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia of Spain. His current areas of interest are Energy Derivatives (electricity, oil, natural gas and renewable energy sources), Asset Pricing and Risk Portfolio Management.

Dr. Carlos Vidal-Meliá is a Full Professor of Financial Economics and Actuarial Science at the University of Valencia (Spain) and holds a research affiliation with the Instituto Complutense de Análisis Económico (ICAE) at the Complutense University of Madrid.

Academic Background

Dr. Vidal-Meliá holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Valencia, a degree in Actuarial Science from the Complutense University of Madrid, and a degree in Business from the University of Valencia.

Research Contributions

His research has been published in leading refereed journals, including:

Applied Economics, Astin Bulletin, Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanj, European Journal of Population, Fiscal Studies, Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance, Insurance: Mathematics and Economics (IME), International Journal for Equity in Health, International Social Security Review, Journal of Economic Policy Reform, Journal of Population Ageing, Journal of Pensions Economics and Finance, Journal of Risk and Insurance, Mathematics, Public Money and Management, Quality & Quantity, Scandinavian Actuarial Journal, SERIEs (Journal of the Spanish Economic Association), SORT (Statistics and Operations Research Transactions) and Sustainability, amongst others.

Research Interests

Dr. Vidal-Meliá's research addresses key actuarial and policy issues within public pension systems and long-term care financing. His work spans the following areas:

1. Public pension reform: Focuses on improving sustainability, transparency, and solvency in pay-as-you-go (PAYG) pension systems, particularly through mechanisms like notional defined contribution (NDC) schemes, actuarial balance sheets, and automatic balancing mechanisms.
2. Notional accounts: Extensive work on the design and implementation of notional accounts, assessing how these can be applied to public pension systems to align contributions with benefits and ensure financial stability.
3. Automatic balance mechanisms: Research on tools to automatically adjust public pension systems in response to demographic changes and economic fluctuations, with a focus on mitigating the effects of longevity and low fertility.
4. Gender redistribution in pension systems: Studies on the implications of using unisex conversion factors in life annuities, particularly how these impact gender equity in pension benefits.
5. Joint life care annuities (LCAs): Analyzes the integration of long-term care (LTC) into annuity products for couples, providing financial solutions to address healthcare needs in retirement.
6. Pension system financial health: Development of actuarial balance sheets to evaluate the solvency and financial status of PAYG pension systems, as seen in Sweden and Spain.
7. Pension reforms in Spain: Evaluation of the 2011-2013 pension reforms in Spain using the Swedish NDC system as a benchmark, focusing on how the reforms diverged from the proposed improvements in equity and transparency.
8. Integration of retirement and disability pensions: Theoretical work on unifying retirement and disability pensions within a single framework, aiming for a more cohesive pension system that better accommodates various life contingencies.
9. Long-term care financing: Research on combining pension benefits with long-term care coverage, addressing the growing need for integrated solutions as populations age.
10. Mortality studies: Analysis of mortality tables and their updates, focusing on how these are used to assess life expectancy and adjust conversion factors in pension systems. This includes evaluating the impact of demographic changes on mortality rates and how these affect pensions.
11. Table 29 for pension system solvency analysis: Dr. Vidal-Meliá’s work delves into the critical assessment of Table 29, which compares the assets and liabilities of a pension system to give a true and fair view of its financial health. This includes evaluating how demographic changes and economic volatility are reflected in actuarial projections and the necessary solvency measures.
12. Demographic coherence in mortality tables for LCAs and LTCI: His research emphasizes the need for consistency between demographic assumptions and the mortality tables used to calculate the premiums of life care annuities (LCAs) and long-term care insurance (LTCI). Ensuring demographic coherence is essential for accurately pricing these products and avoiding discrepancies that could impact their financial sustainability.

Policy Influence

In 2009, as part of the Toledo Pact, Dr. Vidal-Meliá proposed reforms to the Spanish public pension system inspired by the Swedish model. His suggestions, including the introduction of notional accounts, actuarial balances, and automatic balance mechanisms, aimed to improve equity, transparency, solvency, and communication within the system. However, the reforms implemented in Spain between 2011 and 2013 significantly diverged from his recommendations.

Key publications on this topic include:

• Vidal-Meliá, C. (2014). An Assessment of the 2011 Spanish Pension Reform Using the Swedish System as Benchmark, Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 13(03), 297-333.
• Vidal-Meliá, C. (2014). Una storia infinita (The 2011-2013 Spanish pension reform: a never-ending story), Opificium, Revista Consiglio Nazionale Periti Industriali, 5(4), 38-41.

Consulting and Professional Experience

His professional experience has primarily focused on the financial sector of regional small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and on the field of social security, both public and private. In the public sector, he has led, participated in, advised, and/or conducted research for: the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, the World Bank, the Swedish Social Security Agency, IVIE, Funcas, the Ministry of Labour and Immigration, the Ministry of Education and Science, and the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. In the private sector, his professional work has been directed towards actuarial opinions and reviews for various insurance companies, pension externalization issues, retirement awards, judicial expertise, etc. Without attempting to be exhaustive, he has carried out professional work and/or delivered specialized courses for: ASEVAL, BIA Galicia/CXG Aviva, Vidacaixa, Santander Pensiones, Cámara Valencia, Federico Domenech S.A., Ford España S.A., Getronics S.A., Grupo Aguas de Valencia, Grupo Boluda S.A., Iberdrola S.A., INARCASSA (Rome), MARVALSA, PHILIPS, Unión Naval de Barcelona S.A., Instituto de Estudios Fiscales, the Independent Authority for Fiscal Responsibility (AIREF), and various universities such as Jaume I (Castellón), UCLM, Extremadura, Jaén, UPO (Seville), and Valladolid.

Teaching work

His teaching has primarily focused on the areas of Financial and Actuarial Mathematics, Life Insurance, Dependency and Health, Pension Plans, Social Security Techniques, and Financial and Cost Accounting.