Laura Andreu

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  • Profesora Titular de Universidad (acreditada para Catedratica). Area de Economía Financiera y Contabilidad, Universidad de Zaragoza

Laura Andreu is an Associate Professor of Finance and an Associate Researcher at the Institute on Employment, Digital Society and Sustainability (IEDIS) at the University of Zaragoza.
She started as a research fellowship at the University of Zaragoza in 2006. She received her doctorate from the University of Zaragoza in 2009 after the defense of the thesis “Financial Management of Spanish Pension Plans: Comparison to the UK Market”. The thesis produced four international publications indexed in JCR, published in Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance: Issues and Practice (2007), Spanish Journal of Finance and Accounting (2010), Journal of Pension Economics and Finance (2010) and Journal of Business Economics and Management (2015).
Laura Andreu has been visiting researcher at different international institutions such as the University of Exeter (UK), Erasmus University (The Netherlands), University of Cologne (Germany), Victoria University (Australia) and the University of Minho (Portugal).
Her research mainly focuses on Portfolio Management (mutual funds and pension plans) and Behavioural Finance (manager and investor behaviour). Her research has been published in International Review of Financial Analysis, Finance Research Letters, Research in International Business and Finance, Journal of Cleaner Production and European Journal of Operational Research.
She obtained the Inverco Award for the best paper in Asset Management from the 29th Finance Forum of the Spanish Finance Association (AEFIN) in 2022. She has collaborated with INVERCO (Asociación de Instituciones de Inversión Colectiva y Fondos de Pensiones) and with “Catedra Emprender”, among others.
Laura Andreu was Vice Dean of Social and Cultural projection of the Faculty of Economics and Business Studies of the University of Zaragoza for the 4-your period 2011-2015. Additionally, from 2016 to 2023, she has been the academic coordinator of the Finance and Accounting Degree at the University of Zaragoza.

Experience

  • –present
    Profesora Titular de Universidad (acreditada para Catedratica). Area de Economía Financiera y Contabilidad, Universidad de Zaragoza

Education

  • 2009 
    Universidad de Zaragoza, Doctora en Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales
  • 2005 
    Universidad de Zaragoza, Licenciatura en Administración y Dirección de Empresas

Publications

  • 2025
    Reversal of divergent decisions: Wise or hasty decisions?, Research in International Business and Finance
  • 2024
    The limited role of sustainability in mutual fund investor decisions: A machine learning approach, Expert Systems with applications
  • 2023
    Family competition via divergence in the trading of funds,, Finance Research Letters
  • 2022
    Fund Trading Divergence and Performance Contribution, , nternational Review of Financial Analysis
  • 2022
    Diversification and manager autonomy in fund families: implications for investors,, Research in International Business and Finance
  • 2022
    Cluster analysis to validate the sustainability label of stock indices: An analysis of the inclusion and exclusion processes in terms of size and ESG ratings, Journal of Cleaner Production

Grants and Contracts

  • 2007
    Beca de Investigación del Gobierno de Aragón 2006 Beca de Investigación
    Role:
    Beca
    Funding Source:
    Gobierno de Aragón
  • 2006
    Beca de Investigación del Gobierno de Aragón
    Role:
    Beca de Investigación
    Funding Source:
    Gobierno de Aragón

Research Areas

  • Banking, Finance And Investment (1502)

Contact Laura for

  • General
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  • Consulting / Advising
  • Research collaboration
  • Research supervision