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
Vicente Bermejo
Director
Group for Research in Economics and Finance (GREF)
Research and fields of interest:
Corporate Finance, Policy Evaluation and International Financial Markets.
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
Pedro Aznar
Associate Professor
Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting
Research and fields of interest:
Applied Microeconomics, Tourism Economics, Economics of competition and regulation
Fernando Ballabriga
Professor
Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting
Research and fields of interest:
International Macroeconomics and Finance, European Integration
Anna Bayona
Associate Professor
Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting
Research and fields of interest:
Financial economics, the economics of information and competition, experimental economics and finance
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
Jan Sandoval
Assistant professor
Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting
Research and field of interest:
Empirical Asset Pricing
Postdoctoral researcher
Enrico Bergamini
Postdoctoral researcher
Advisors: Dr. Martí Guasch & Dr. Vicente Bermejo
Research and fields of interest:
Entrepreneurship and Empirical Finance
PhD Candidates
Niccolò Bagnoli
PhD student
Advisor: Dr Carlo Sala
Research and fields of interest:
Asset Pricing, Optimal Transport
Vicente Corral
PhD student
Advisor: Dr. Ioana Schiopu
Research and fields of interest:
Financial Economics, Household Finance, and Urban Economics
Teo Gavriilidis
PhD student
Advisor: Dr Santiago Forte
Research and fields of interest:
International Finance, Geopolitics & Credit Risk.
Mariia Iankelevich
MRes student
Yuhan Ji
PhD student
Advisors: Dr Josep Bisbe & Dr Marti Guasch
Research and fields of interest:
Financial Reporting Quality, ESG Reporting, Neuroeconomics
Salma Lemkhente
PhD student
Advisors: Dr Ariadna Dumitrescu & Dr Carolina Villegas-Sánchez
Research and fields of interest:
Intangible assets, digital economy, investment-less growth.
Sameh Marei
PhD student
Advisor: Carolina Villegas
Research and fields of interest:
Corporate finance, macro finance and policy evaluation.
Maosen Wang
PhD student
Advisors: Dr Omar Rachedi & Dr Dante Amengual (CEMFI)
Research and fields of interest:
Financial reporting and disclosure, financial intermediaries, market efficiency.
Zhenchao Xu
PhD student
Advisor: Dr Carolina Villegas
Research and fields of interest:
FDI, trade and immigration
Ali Zakizade
MRes student
Yuqian Zhao
PhD student
Advisors: Dr. Carolina Villegas-Sanchez & Dr. Omar Rachedi
Research and fields of interest:
Macro-Finance, firm dynamics, entrepreneurship and policy evaluation.
Christoph Zimmermann
PhD student
Advisor:s Dr Anna Bayona & Dr Juanita Gonzalez-Uribe (LSE)
Research and fields of interest:
Private Equity