Our Team
Meet the faculty and graduate students
The Group for Research in Economics and Finance (GREF) is an interdisciplinary research group based at Esade. It brings together a group of colleagues that share their commitment to academic life and the deep belief that education and research are the key intangible assets for sustainable progress.
Faculty
Anna Bayona
Director
Group for Research in Economics and Finance (GREF)
Research and fields of interest:
Financial economics, the economics of information and competition, experimental economics and finance
Carmen Ansotegui
Professor
Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting
Research and fields of interest:
Financial risk, shadow banking, alternative financing
Calin Arcalean
Associate Professor
Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting
Research and fields of interest:
Macroeconomics, Public Economics, International Economics
Fernando Ballabriga
Professor
Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting
Research and fields of interest:
International Macroeconomics and Finance, European Integration
Vicente Bermejo
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting
Research and fields of interest:
Corporate Finance, Policy Evaluation and International Financial Markets.
Josep Bisbe
Professor
Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting
Research and fields of interest:
Management accounting and control, performance measurement, innovation management
Luca del Viva
Associate professor
Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting
Research and fields of interest:
Asset Pricing, Banking and Credit Risk
Ariadna Dumitrescu
Associate Professor
Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting
Research and fields of interest:
Asset Pricing, Market Microstructure, Corporate Finance
Santiago Forte
Associate Professor
Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting
Research and fields of interest:
Credit Risk, Capital Structure, Assets' Valuation
Martí Guasch
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting
Research and fields of interest:
Financial and Management accounting, Entrepreneurial Finance
Tanushree Jhunjhunwala
Lecturer
Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting
Research and fields of interest: Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics, Political Economics
Petya Platikanova
Associate Professor
Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting
Research and fields of interest:
Financial statement analysis, financial analysts, tax planning, debt contracts
Omar Rachedi
Associate Professor
Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting
Research and fields of interest:
Macroeconomics, fiscal policy, credit market frictions, economics of climate change
Giulia Redigolo
Associate Professor
Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting
Research and fields of interest:
Earnings Guidance, Social Media and Capital Markets, Financial Reporting and Analysis, Textual Analysis
Carlo Sala
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting
Research and fields of interest:
Option pricing Risk management Asset pricing Portfolio optimization Non-parametric estimation Credit derivatives
Ioana Schiopu
Associate Professor
Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting
Research and fields of interest:
Economics of Human Capital, Public Economics, Macroeconomics
André B.M. Souza
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting
Research and fields of interest:
Financial econometrics, machine learning, applied finance, applied macroeconomics
Carolina Villegas
Associate Professor
Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting
Research and fields of interest:
International Macroeconomics and Finance, Trade, Productivity and Growth
Postdoctoral researcher
Erfan Ghofrani
Postdoctoral researcher
Advisors: Dr Vicente Bermejo & Dr Carolina Villegas
Research and fields of interest:
Macroeconomics, Information Frictions, Firm Dynamics.
Matthew Smith
Postdoctoral researcher
Advisor: Dr Vicente Bermejo
Research and fields of interest:
Finance, Machine Learning and Generative AI
PhD Candidates
Marco Errico
PhD student
Advisor: Dr Petya Platikanova
Research and fields of interest:
Economic consequences of securities regulation, reporting choices.
Sahand Davani
PhD student
Advisors: Dr Ariadna Dumitrescu & Dr Anna Bayona
Research and fields of interest:
Sustainable investments and information in financial markets.
Salma Lemkhente
PhD student
Advisors: Dr Ariadna Dumitrescu & Dr Carolina Villegas-Sánchez
Research and fields of interest:
Intangible assets, digital economy, investment-less growth.
Cecilia Simkievich
PhD student
Advisors: Dr Calin Arcalean & Dr Ioana Schiopu
Research and fields of interest:
Macro labor, structural change, gender in the labor market.
Thuy Linh Vu
PhD student
Advisor: Dr Ariadna Dumitrescu
Research and fields of interest:
Sustainable finance, fintech, digital banking.
Zhenchao Xu
PhD student
Advisor: Dr Carolina Villegas
Research and fields of interest:
FDI, trade and immigration
Maosen Wang
PhD student
Advisors: Dr Luca Del Viva & Dr Carlo Sala
Research and fields of interest:
Financial reporting and disclosure, financial intermediaries, market efficiency.
Christoph Zimmermann
PhD student
Advisor: Anna Bayona
Research and fields of interest:
Private Equity
Sameh Marei
PhD student
Advisor: Carolina Villegas
Research and fields of interest:
Corporate finance, macro finance and policy evaluation.