[Biography, english version]

Dr. Omar Blanco Arroyo is assistant professor at the Department of Applied Economics II (Estructura Econòmica), University of Valencia. He holds a PhD in Economics and Business by the University Jaume I (Castellón, Spain). His research interests are focused on the dynamics of large firms and their macroeconomic impact. His work has been published in Economics Letters and Mathematics and he has also participated in different competitive projects supported by the Valencian government.

Five selected/recent publications:

1. Alfarano, S., & Blanco-Arroyo, O. (2022). Banking sector concentration, credit shocks and aggregate fluctuations. Economics Letters, 218, 110709.

2. Vidal-Tomás, D., Ruiz-Buforn, A., Blanco-Arroyo, O., & Alfarano, S. (2022). A cross-sectional analysis of growth and profit rate distribution: the Spanish case. Mathematics, 10(6), 926.

3. Arroyo, O. B., Buforn, A. R., TOMÁS, D. V., & Alfarano, S. (2019). Granular companies and regional breakdown: An analysis of the Spanish case. Estudios de Economía Aplicada, 37(2), 109.

4. Blanco-Arroyo, O., Ruiz-Buforn, A., Vidal-Tomás, D., & Alfarano, S. (2018). On the determination of the granular size of the economy. Economics Letters, 173, 35-38.

[Biography, english version]

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 President of the Scientific Association for Research, Innovation and Transfer in Sustainability (ACISOST+). He 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”.

[María Iborra is Associate Professor in Strategic Management at University of València (Spain), from which she holds her PhD. Her research interests are in the areas of strategic management: specifically the role of upper echelons on management and corporate governance of family and SMEs; CSR/CSI, values and culture are also key areas. She has published on these topics in different international journals and books]

Julia Olmos Peñuela is Professor at the Department of Business Management at the University of Valencia and researcher at INN4ALL, Innovation, Science and Society Research Group. Her research interests revolve around the processes of production and transfer of knowledge, innovation and university-industry relationships (or science-society interactions in its broad sense). She has been involved in several competitive projects and she is currently IP of a competitive project funded by the MInistry of Science and Innovation and of another funded by the Generalitat Valenciana. She has published in prestigious international journals such as Research Policy, Technovation, Science and Public Policy, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Research Evaluation, Higher Education o European Planning Studies, among others. She has conducted several research stays in Canada (Laval University) and The Netherlands (University of Twente).

[Biography, english version]

[Biography, english version]