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Throughout her professional life, Lola has worked on entrepreneurship both from a professional and academic point of view. On the one hand, she has had her own innovative company, has created and managed several startups associations and has worked as a strategy consultant for entrepreneurs and SMEs. Lola has mentored entrepreneurs since 2004 and still does, in different institutions.

At the academic and research level, she is a full professor at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Valencia (UV), guest lecturer at other universities and teaches in English and Spanish. She is currently researching sustainable entrepreneurship from 4 perspectives of sustainability: ecological, social, cultural and economic. She is the director of the ROCK-EU Research Group (Research on Opportunities, Capabilities, and Knowledge in Entrepreneurial Universities) and the consolidated teaching innovation group in entrepreneurship and innovation ‘ROCK-ing the brick’. Her doctoral thesis on university entrepreneurship won an award from the Social Council of the Polytechnic University of Valencia and another from Valencia City Council for the doctoral thesis with the greatest impact on the city of Valencia.

She has a background in European projects management since 2001. Since 2015 she has managed several European projects on entrepreneurship aimed at tackling the climate emergency within the European initiative EIT Climate KIC. She currently belongs to the European Forthem Alliance, participates in various European projects and leads a cooperation project to promote entrepreneurship in Ethiopia.

Lola is the academic head of UVemprén, the entrepreneurship support area at the UV. She is the responsible for the entrepreneurs mentoring service of the University of Valencia and supports all the active entrepreneurs form different areas of knowledge. She has been the Vice-Dean of Entrepreneurship and Business Relations at the Faculty of Economics.

She is the Vice President for International Relations of AEDEM, the European Academy of Management and Business Economics and the Vice President of ASEDEC+I+A, the Spanish Association for Executive Development in Science + Innovation + Art.
 

Alicia Mas Tur holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Valencia (2007), a master's degree in Business Strategy, and a PhD from the same university (2013).

She has been a professor at the University of Valencia since 2014, where she is currently a full professor. She is co-director of the Master's Degree in Business Strategy. She coordinates the second year of the Business Administration (ADE) degree. Her teaching focuses on subjects related to Strategic Management in the Business Administration (ADE) and International Business(GIB) degrees and in the Master's Degrees in Business Strategy and Tourism Management and Planning at the Faculty of Economics.

Her research focuses on entrepreneurship, specifically in the areas of women entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurship. She is the director of the MEYES Research Group - Women Entrepreneurs and Social Entrepreneurship. She has published numerous articles in prestigious, peer-reviewed scientific journals such as the International Journal of Technology Management, the Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, and Quality & Quantity. She is an associate editor of Service Business. She is also the chair of the annual conference ICEM - International Conference on Entrepreneurial Motivation.

Professor of Economics at Universidad de Valencia. Postdoctoral Fellowship from 1992 to 1993, University of Montreal. Ph.D. in Economics in 1992, Universidad de  Valencia. M.A. in Economics in 1989, Universidad de Valencia. B.A. in Economics in 1985, Universidad de Valencia. Research Associate at the Valencian Federation of Saving Banks from 1989 to 1993. Visiting Researcher, University of Montreal, 1995. Visiting Researcher, Fundación de Estudios de Economía Aplicada (FEDEA), 1996. 

Director of the Fundación ICO-Cabildo de Tenerife Chair in International Economics and Finance, Universidad de La Laguna, from 2010 to 2011. Director of the Cabildo de Tenerife-CajaCanarias Chair in International Economics and Finance, Universidad de La Laguna, 2012, and Deputy Director of the Fundación CajaCanarias Chair in International Economics and Finance, Universidad de La Laguna, 2014-2015.

​Coordinator of Scholarship Program for Teacher Training University (Grants FPU, Economics Area) from the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, Government of Spain, from 2012 to 2015. External assessor of the Insight Grants Program from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Government of Canada in 2013. Member of the Selection Committee, High Corps of Spanish State Economists and Trade Experts, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, 2023.

​His research interests are in the areas of International Finance, Applied Macroeconometrics, Cliometrics, and Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance.

He has published extensively in academic journals (Journal of Macroeconomics, Economic Letters, Journal of Policy Modeling, Economic Modelling, Energy Economics, Cliometrica, North American Journal of Economics and Finance, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, among others).

​His current research focuses on stability of the New Keynesian hybrid Phillips curve, on co-explosivity between nominal house price index and housing credit-to-GDP, on optimal public deficit and tax-smoothing, on credit and economic growth, and on prices and money in the Early Modern Globalization period.

He is a research affiliate of the INTECO UV-UJI joint research unit and Prometeo program grants for research groups of excellence of Generalitat Valenciana.

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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