[Biography, english version]

Lola Garzón holds a degree in Business Administration and Management from the University of Córdoba and a PhD in Business Organization from the Polytechnic University of Valencia. Her doctoral thesis is entitled "Entrepreneurship and the role of entrepreneurs in society: the case of IDEAS Institute as a university pioneer".

She is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Business Management "Juan José Renau Piqueras" at the University of Valencia and has previously worked at the Universitat Politècnica de València (12 years) and at the European University of Valencia (2 years). She collaborates with other European universities and business schools and participates as a trainer in different European entrepreneurship programmes.

Professionally, academically and as a researcher, all her work focuses on entrepreneurship from different approaches. She has been involved in European project management in this field since 2001.

Lola is the academic head of UVemprén, the entrepreneurship support area at the UV and 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  (https://redaedem.org).

[Biography, english version]

[Biography, english version]

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