Curriculum Vitae January, 2014 IRENE COMEIG Address: Department of Finance and ERICES University of Valencia Avda. De los Naranjos s/n 46022 Valencia (Spain) Email: Irene.comeig@uv.es Current Affiliations: Associate Professor (with tenure), University of Valencia, since 2002 Past/Visiting Affiliations: Visiting Professor, University of Virginia (USA) Department of Economics, Fall 2012, Fall 2013 Invited Professor, Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Genève, Nov. 2007- Oct. 2010 Visiting Professor, Groupe Ecole Supérieure de Commerce Chambéry Savoie, Febr. 2006- Nov. 2007 Assistant Professor, University of Valencia, 2000-2002 Visiting Scholar, University of Virginia (USA) Department of Economics, Summer-Fall 1997, Fall 1998, Fall 2000 Research Interests: Behavioral Finance, Experimental Economics, Finance, Gender Education: University of Valencia, Ph.D. Financial Economics, 2000 (Young Award for Research in Economy, University Complutense of Madrid); and (Víctor Mendoza Award for Doctoral Dissertation, 1 rst accesit, Institute of Economic Studies, IEE, Spain) University of Valencia, MS Economics and Finance, 1996 University of Valencia, BA in Economics and Business, 1990 Awards: GIKA 2013 Best Paper Award at Global Innovation and Knowledge Academy Conference, Valencia, Spain. Award CESGAR for Research in Mutual Guarantee Institutions, 2011 Young Award for Research in Economy, University Complutense of Madrid, 2001. Víctor Mendoza Award for Doctoral Dissertation, 1 rst accesit, Institute of Economic Studies (IEE, Spain), 2000-2001
Grants: Generalitat Valenciana, GV-2012-047, 2012 and 2013 University of Valencia, UV-INV-AE112-66116, 2012 University of Valencia, UV-INV-AE11-42228, 2011 University of Geneva, Boursière d Excellence 2008-2009, 2009-2010 Generalitat Valenciana, BEST09, 2009 Foreign Office of Spain, research fellowship, 2007-2008, 2008-2009 University of Valencia, on Short Stays in Researching Centers, 1998, 2001, 2010 University of Valencia, on Research (University of Virginia), 1997, 1998, 2001 Professional Service: 2 nd ADVISOR: PhD Thesis (Federico Ramírez López- University of Valencia), in progress 2 nd ADVISOR: Master Thesis (Federico Ramírez López- University of Valencia), 2012 SCIENTIFIC JURY MEMBER: University Complutense of Madrid, Young Award for Research in Economy, 2002 QUALIFYING TENURE COMMITTEE: University Rey Juan Carlos 2001, University of Murcia 2002 UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA: Undergraduate Academic Advisor 1997-2005, 2011, 2012, 2013 VALENCIAN RADIO-TELEVISION, Financial Dpt. 1990-1994 IBM SPAIN, Dpt. of Financial Planning and Control, 1990 Publications: Statistical formats to optimize evidence-based decision making: a behavioral approach (with Arrivas, I., Urbano, A. and Vila, J.E.), Journal of Business Research, Volume 67, Issue 5, May 2014, Pages 790-794 Financing Successful Small Business Projects (with Del Brío, E. and Fernández Blanco, M.O.), Management Decision, 2014, Vol. 52, issue 2 Working Paper: Screening good borrowers: Evidence from the small business community WP2010-06, New Trends on Business Administration Working Paper: The Separating Role of Collateral Requirements in Credit Markets with Asymmetric Information (with Capra, C. M. and Fernández Blanco, M.O.). Emory University 2005. Available at SSRN Entrepreneurship and Credit Rationing: How to Screen Successful Projects (with Capra, C. M. and Fernandez Blanco, M.O.) In: Entrepreneurship. Innovation and Economic Crisis, Lessons for Research, Policy and Practice, K. Rudiger et al. (eds.), Springer International 2014, pp. 139-148 Working Paper: Moral Hazard and Credit Screening: An experiment (with Capra, C.M. and Fernández Blanco, M.O.) In Andersen R.S. et al. (eds) Society of Australia, New Zealand and International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, 2009, pp. 1425-1431. Working Paper Un estudio sobre el papel clasificador de las garantías en los mercados de crédito con información asimétrica (with Capra, C.M. and Fernández Blanco, M.O.) WP-EC 2001-25, IVIE. Adaptación organizativa a los cambios tecnológicos en la industria cultural: Un estudio a partir de la Economía Experimental (with Benavides-Espinosa, M.M. and Canos-Daros, L.), Revista Economía Industrial, 2013, vol. 389, pp.95-103.
The role of perceived loss aversion on credit screening: An experiment (with Bediou, B., Jaramillo-Gutiérrez, A. and D. Sander), Spanish Review of Finance and Accounting (REFC), 2013, Vol. XLII #157, pp. 83-98 Working Paper: Self-selection in risky financial decision-making: An experiment on framing and perceived loss aversion WP 2010-07, New Trends on Business Administration Veconlab: Una herramienta interactiva para la enseñanza en Finanzas (with Ainhoa Jaramillo- Gutiérrez and Federico Ramírez), In: II Jornada de Intercambio de Experiencias de Innovación Educativa en Finanzas, José Emilio Farinós, María Dolores Furió (Eds.), 2011, ISBN: 978-84- 15323-28-0 Experimentos interactivos para la enseñanza de Economía y Finanzas: Una aplicación a la docencia de Estadística (with Ainhoa Jaramillo-Gutiérrez and Federico Ramírez), In: Experiencias de Innovación Docente en Estadística, José M. Pavía, Rosario Martínez y Francisco G. Morillas (Eds.), 2011, ISBN: 978-84-15323-19-8 Theoretical models and empirical evidence on the effects of collateral in credit under asymmetric information (in Spanish), Investigaciones Europeas de Dirección y Economía de la Empresa, v. 9, 2, 2003, 99-114. The impact of asymmetric information on the risk and behavior of Mutual Corporate Suretyship (in Spanish), (with A. Reig Pérez), Revista Española de Financiación y Contabilidad (REFC), v. XXVII, 95, abril-junio 1998, 469-497. Working Paper: Nuevos Desarrollos Financieros (pp. 647-661). ISBN: 84-605-6947-0 Determinants of insolvency in loans backed by Mutual Corporate Suretyship: A Discriminate and Logit Analysis (in Spanish), Revista Europea de Dirección y Economía de la Empresa, v. 7, 1, 1998, 149-166. Working Paper: En La Empresa en una Economía Globalizada: Retos y Cambios (pp. 463-473). ISBN: 84-87555-97-7. Publications (books): Analysis and Evolution of the Mutual Corporate Suretyship of Valencia: 1982-1998, with Máximo Ferrando Bolado. Sociedad de Garantía Recíproca de la Comunidad Valenciana, 1999. ISBN: 84-605- 9063-1. Work in progress: Do women self-select as good borrowers? (with Ainhoa Jaramillo-Gutiérrez and Federico Ramírez) Working Paper: Diferencias de género en el comportamiento de autoselección: un análisis experimental WP2012-03, New Trends on Business Administration Dealing with Risk: Gender, Stakes, and Probability Effects (with Charles Holt and Ainhoa Jaramillo- Gutiérrez) Using Experiments to Inform Policy: An Orthogonal Design Approach? (with Iván Arribas, Amparo Urbano and José Vila) Analysis of the Subjects Attitude toward Risk and Ambiguity in the Financial Game through a Bayesian Network (with Ainhoa Jaramillo-Gutiérrez and Pilar Fuster-Parra) Working Paper: in Proceedings of the Future Business Technology Conference (FUBUTEC'2013) and European Concurrent Engineering Conference (ECEC'2013) ISBN: 978-90-77381-77- 9
Reputation versus information monopoly in relationship lending (with Matilde O. Fernández and Federico Ramírez) Working Paper: Reputación y coste de los préstamos a las pequeñas empresas: Un análisis empírico WP2011-07, New Trends on Business Administration Working Paper: Una nota sobre reputación y coste de los préstamos a las pequeñas empresas, (with Matilde O. Fernández-Blanco and Federico Ramírez López) In: The Markets of Tomorrow: Basis for their Analysis Today, 2011, pp. 158-159, ESIC EDITORIAL (Madrid) Does credit rating reduce moral hazard? (with C. Monica Capra) Invited Seminars/Conferences: 2013/2014: Experimental Methods in Policy Curacao, Behavioral Insurance Workshop CEAR/MRIC Atlanta, Global Innovation and Knowledge Academy (GIKA) Valencia 2012/2013: Department of Economics University of Virginia February 2013, Economic Science Association (ESA) Tucson, Behavioral Insurance Workshop CEAR/MRIC Munich, Global Innovation and Knowledge Academy (GIKA) Valencia, Economic Science Association (ESA) Zurich. 2011/2012: Global Innovation and Knowledge Academy (GIKA) Valencia, International Finance and Banking Society (IFABS) Valencia, International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioral Economics (IMEBE) Castellón 2010/2011: Department of Economics University of Virginia, Academy of Behavioral Finance (ABF) UCLA Los Angeles, Academy of Entrepreneurial Finance, UCLA Los Angeles, Economic Science Association (ESA) Luxembourg, AEDEM Valencia 2009/2010: Economic Science Association (ESA) Copenhagen, Behavioral Finance Workshop Valladolid, Congreso Iberoamericano Valencia 2008/2009: Financial Management Association International (FMA), Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (SSES), Swiss Society for Financial Market Research (SGF), Modeling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand (MODSIM) and International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (IMACS). 2007/2008: Economic Science Association (ESA), University of Geneva: Research Seminar Economics and Econometrics. 2006/2007: 3rd International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioral Economics (IMEBE), Conference of the French Economic Association on Behavioral Economics and Experiments Before 2006: Dpt. of Economics and Politics. Williams School of Commerce. Washington and Lee University, Financial Management Association International (FMA), Economic Science Association (ESA) Annual Meeting, Southern Economic Association (SEA), Asociación Europea de Dirección y Economía de la Empresa (AEDEM), Foro de Finanzas. Refereeing: Journal of Business Research, Management Decision, Small Business Economics Journal, Spanish Journal of Finance and Accounting (REFC), Revista Europea de Dirección y Economía de la Empresa, Investigaciones Europeas de Dirección y Economía de la Empresa.
Teaching Experience: Undergraduate Courses: Corporate Finance (University of Virginia, USA, Fall 2012, Fall 2013, in English), Financial Management (block coordinator) (University of Valencia, in English), Dirección Financiera (markets and finance decisions, in Spanish) (block coordinator), Financial Analysis (block coordinator, in Spanish). Graduate courses: Corporate Finance (in English), International Financial Risk Management (in English), International Financial Management (in English) Languages: English, French, Spanish (native)