Research
Research at GREF
We aim to understand the complex interplay between markets and societies from multiple, complementary, perspectives.
It is worth mentioning our work in inequality, including some of its connections with the design of the education system, the choice of alternative paths to development, or the design and implementation of macroeconomic policy. Similarly, in a recent work, we study the optimal speed for the transition to clean energy, market-based and regulatory-based incentives for green investment, Environmentally, Social and Governance (ESG) financial disclosure & green investment.
Publications
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Forthcoming
Aguilera, R. V., Bermejo, V. J., Capapé, J., & Cuñat, V. (2024). The systemic governance influence of expectation documents: evidence from a universal owner. The Review of Corporate Finance Studies, cfae009.
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Basso, H. S., Jaimes, R., & Rachedi, O. (2022). Demographics and emissions: the life cycle of consumption carbon intensity. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics.
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Bermejo, V. J., Ferreira, M. A., Wolfenzon, D., & Zambrana, R. (2022). How do Cash Windfalls Affect Entrepreneurship? Evidence from the Spanish Christmas Lottery. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 1-47.
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Fernández-Villaverde, J., Marbet, J., Nuño, G., & Rachedi, O. (2024). Inequality and the zero lower bound. Journal of Econometrics, 105819.
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Huan, X., Parbonetti, A., Redigolo, G., & Zhang, Z. (2024). Social media disclosure and reputational damage. Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 62(4), 1355-1396.
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Peri, A., Rachedi, O., & Varotto, I. (2023). Public investment in a production network: Aggregate and sectoral implications. Review of Economics and Statistics, 1-45.
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Sala, C., & Pravosud, M. (2022). Smart Deep Learning Calibration of the SABR Model. Available at SSRN 4083860.
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2024
Adesi, G. B., Platen, E., & Sala, C. (2024). Managing the shortfall risk of target date funds by overfunding. Journal of Pension Economics & Finance, 1-25.
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Bayona, A., & Manzano, C. (2024). Competition in Schedules with Cursed Traders. Journal of Economic Theory, 105935.
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Dumitrescu A., Menkveld, A. J., Dreber, A., Holzmeister, F., Huber, J., Johannesson, M., Kirchler, M., ... & Khomyn, M. K. (2024). Nonstandard errors. The Journal of Finance, 79(3), 2339-2390.
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Kalemli-Özcan, Ş., Sørensen, B. E., Villegas-Sanchez, C., Volosovych, V., & Yeşiltaş, S. (2024). How to Construct Nationally Representative Firm-Level Data from the Orbis Global Database: New Facts on SMEs and Aggregate Implications for Industry Concentration. American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 16(2), 353-374.
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2023
Alexander, A., Pilonato, S., & Redigolo, G. (2022). Do institutional donors value social media activity and engagement? Empirical evidence on Italian non-profit grantees. The British Accounting Review.
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Andreou P., Anyfantaki S., Maasoumi E., Sala C. (2023) Extremal quantiles and stock price crashes.
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Bali, T., Del Viva, L., El Hefnawy,M., Trigeorgis, L. (2023). Value Uncertainty. Management Science, forthcoming.
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Bayona A., Dumitrescu A., Manzano C. (2023). Information and optimal trading strategies with dark pools. Economic Modelling.
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Bouakez, H., Rachedi, O., & Santoro, E. (2023) The government spending multiplier in a multi-sector economy. American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 15(1): 209-39.
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Calice, G., Sala, C., & Tantari, D. (2023). Contingent convertible bonds in financial networks. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 22337.
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Dumitrescu A., Järvinen J., Zakriya M. (2023). Hidden Gem or Fool’s Gold: Can passive ESG ETFs outperform the benchmarks? International Review of Financial Analysis.
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Forte, S., Lovreta, L. (2023). Credit Default Swaps, the Leverage Effect, and Cross-Sectional Predictability of Equity and Firm Asset Volatility. Journal of Corporate Finance, 79, 102347.
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Jhunjhunwala, T. (2023). Searching to avoid regret in charitable giving. Journal of the Economic Science Association, 9(2), 207-226.
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Mattei M., Platikanova P. Enhancing bank transparency: Financial reporting quality, fraudulent peers and social capital. Accounting & Finance. Forthcoming.
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Mayordomo, S, Rachedi, O., Rodriguez-Moreno, M. (2022). Bank regulatory capital arbitrage: Evidence from housing overappraisals. Management Science.
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Platikanova P. (2023). The Real Effects of Analyst Research Quality: Evidence from the Adoption of the Broker Protocol. Australian Accounting Review, 33(3), 237-261.
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Platikanova, P., & Soonawalla, K. (2023). Shared Auditors in Private Lending. Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance, 0148558X231202285.
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2022
Ballabriga, F., & Davtyan, K. (2022). Distributional impact of monetary policy in the UK: from conventional to unconventional policy. Journal of Economic Policy Reform, 25(4): 435-450.
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Bayona, A., López, Á. L., & Manganelli, A. G. (2022). Common ownership, corporate control and price competition. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 200, 1066-1075.
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Bayona, A., & Peia, O. (2022). Financial contagion and the wealth effect: An experimental study. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 200, 1184-1202.
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Bedford, D., Bisbe, J., & Sweeney, B. (2022). Enhancing external knowledge search: The influence of performance measurement system design on the absorptive capacity of top management teams. Technovation, 118, 102586.
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Bedford, D., Bisbe, J., & Sweeney, B. (2022). The joint effects of performance measurement system design and TMT cognitive conflict on innovation ambidexterity. Management Accounting Research, 100805.
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Bellini, F., Rroji, E., & Sala, C. (2022). Implicit quantiles and expectiles. Annals of Operations Research, 313,733–753.
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Boesso, G., Cerbioni, F., Kumar, K., & Redigolo, G. (2022). Determinism vs. solidarism: the philanthropic approach of foundations. International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics, 16(3), 317-336.
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Dávila, A. & Guasch, M. (2022) Managers’ Body Expansiveness, Investor Perceptions, and Firm Forecast Errors and Valuation. Journal of Accounting Research, forthcoming.
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Dumitrescu, A., & Zakriya, M. (2022). Governance, information flow, and stock returns.Journal of Corporate Finance, 72, 102168.
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Mayordomo, S. and Rachedi, O.(2022). The China syndrome affects banks: the credit supply channel of foreign import competition. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis,, 3114 - 314.
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Moro, A., and Rachedi, O. (2022) The Changing Structure of Government Consumption Spending. International Economic Review, 63(3), 1293-1323.
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2021
Del Viva, L., Kothari, S.P., Lambertides, N., Trigeorgis, L., (2021). Asymmetric return and the economic content of accruals. Management Science, 67(6).
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Del Viva, L., Kasanen, E., Saunders, A., & Trigeorgis, L. (2021). Is bailout insurance and tail risk priced in bank equities? Journal of Financial Stability, 55, 100909.
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Del Viva, L., Kasanen, E., Saunders, A., & Trigeorgis, L. (2021). US government TARP bailout and bank lottery behavior. Journal of Corporate Finance, 66, 101777.
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Dumitrescu, A., & Zakriya, M. (2021). Stakeholders and the stock price crash risk: What matters in corporate social performance? Journal of Corporate Finance, 67, 101871.
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Basso, H. S., & Rachedi, O. (2021). The young, the old, and the government: demographics and fiscal multipliers. American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 13(4): 110-141.
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Díez, F. J., Fan, J., & Villegas-Sánchez, C. (2021). Global declining competition? Journal of International Economics, 132, 103492.
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Fons-Rosen, C., Kalemli-Ozcan, S., Sørensen, B. E., Villegas-Sanchez, C., & Volosovych, V. (2021). Quantifying productivity gains from foreign investment. Journal of International Economics, 131, 103456.
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2020
Bayona, A., Brandts, J., & Vives, X. (2020). Information frictions and market power: A laboratory study. Games and Economic Behavior, 122, 354-369.
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Bermejo, V. J., Campa, J. M., Campos, R. G., & Zakriya, M. (2020). Do foreign stocks substitute for international diversification? European Financial Management, 26(5), 1191-1223.
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Del Viva, L., & El Hefnawy, M. (2020). Financing decisions: The case of convertible bonds. International Review of Financial Analysis, 67, 101393.
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Bali, T. G., Del Viva, L., Lambertides, N., & Trigeorgis, L. (2020). Growth options and related stock market anomalies: Profitability, distress, lotteryness, and volatility. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 55(7), 2150-2180.
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Caballé, J., & Dumitrescu, A. (2020). Disclosure of corporate tax reports, tax enforcement, and price information. Journal of Banking & Finance, 121, 105978.
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Dumitrescu, A., El Hefnawy, M., & Zakriya, M. (2020). Golden geese or black sheep: Are stakeholders the saviors or saboteurs of financial distress? Finance Research Letters, 37, 101371.
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Epure, M., & Guasch, M. (2020). Debt signaling and outside investors in early stage firms. Journal of Business Venturing, 35(2), 105929.
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Soonawalla, K., & Platikanova, P. (2020). Who monitors opaque borrowers? Debt specialization, institutional ownership, and information opacity. Accounting and Finance, 60(2), 1864-1904.
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Jia, W., Redigolo, G., Shu, S., & Zhao, J. (2020). Can social media distort price discovery? Evidence from merger rumors. Journal of Accounting and Economics, 70(1), 101334.
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Barone-Adesi, G., Fusari, N., Mira, A., & Sala, C. (2020). Option market trading activity and the estimation of the pricing kernel: A Bayesian approach. Journal of Econometrics, 216(2), 430-449.
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Sala, C., & Barone-Adesi, G. (2020). Sentiment lost: the effect of projecting the pricing kernel onto a smaller filtration set. Stochastic Analysis and Applications, 38(4), 686-707.
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Meier, V., & Schiopu, I. (2020). Enrollment expansion and quality differentiation across higher education systems. Economic Modelling, 90, 43-53.
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Molino A., & Sala C. (2021). Forecasting Value at Risk and Conditional Value at Risk using Option Market Data. Journal of Forecasting, 40(7): 1190-1213.
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Previous publications
2019
Performance measurement systems as generators of cognitive conflict in ambidextrous firms Bedford, D., Bisbe, J. & Sweeney, M. (2019) Accounting, Organizations and Society, 72 (1), pp. 21-37.
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Retained earnings, interest rates and lending relationship Dumitrescu, A. (2019) The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 1 (19), pp. 110-121.
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Volatility discovery: Can the CDS market beat the equity options market? Forte, S. & Lovreta, L. (2019) Finance Research Letters, 28, pp. 107-111.
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Competitive Pressure Widens the Gender Gap in Performance: Evidence from a Two-Stage Competition in Mathematics Iriberri, N., Rey-Biel, P. (2019) The Economic Journal, Vol 129(620), pp. 1863–1893.
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Option‐Implied Risk Measures: An Empirical Examination on the S&P 500 Index Barone-Adesi, G.; Legnazzi, C.; Sala, C. (2019) International Journal of Finance and Economics, pp.1-20
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The credit supply channel of foreign import competition. Mayordomo, S. and Rachedi, O. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, forthcoming.
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Testing Market Efficiency with the Pricing Kernel Barone-Adesi, G.; Sala, C. (2019) European Journal of Finance, Vol 25,13, pp.1166-1193
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WTI Crude Oil Option Implied VaR and CVaR: An Empirical Application Barone-Adesi, G.; Finta, M.A.; Legnazzi, C.; Sala, C. (2019) Journal of Forecasting, Vol 38, Issue 6, pp. 552-563
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2018
Dynamic fiscal competition: A political economy theory Arcalean, C. (2018) Journal of Public Economics, 164, p. 211 – 224
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Silent financial interests and product innovation Bayona, A. & López, Á. (2018) Economics Letters, 170, p. 109 – 112
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The social value of information with an endogenous public signal Bayona, A. (2018). Economic Theory, 66 (4), pp. 1059-1087.
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Market frictions, investor sophistication, and persistence in mutual fund performance Dumitrescu, A. & Gil Bazo, J. (2018). Journal of Financial Markets, 40 (-), pp. 40-59.
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2017
International tax competition and the deficit bias Arcalean, C. (2017). Economic Inquiry, 55 (1), pp. 51-72.
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Specialization, risk sharing and the Euro Ballabriga Clavería, F. & Villegas Sanchez, C. (2017) Journal of Common Market Studies, 55 (6), pp. 1380-1397.
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Management control and trust in virtual settings: A case study of a virtual new product development team Bisbe, J. & Sivabalan, P. (2017). Management Accounting Research, 37 (December 2017), pp. 12-29.
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Real options, idiosyncratic skewness, and diversification Del Viva, L., Kasanen, E. & Trigeorgis, L. (2017) Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 52 (1), pp. 215-241.
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Debt maturity and tax avoidance Platikanova, P. (2017). European Accounting Review, 26 (1), pp. 97-124.
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Do product market threats affect analyst forecast precision? Mattei, M. & Platikanova, P. (2017) Review of Accounting Studies, 22 (4), pp. 1628-1665.
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Investor-legislators: Tax holiday for politically connected firms Platikanova, P. (2017) The British Accounting Review, 4 (49), pp. 380-398.
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Stereotypes are Only a Threat when Beliefs are Reinforced. On the Sensitivity of Gender Differences in Performance under Competition to Information Provision Iriberri, N.; Rey-Biel, P. (2017) Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol 135, pp. 99-111
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Capital allocation and productivity in South Europe Gopinath, G., Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem, Karabarbounis, L. & Villegas Sanchez, C.17). Quarterly Journal of Economics, 132 (4), pp. 1915-1967.
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