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Dumitrescu, Ariadna
Education
- Doctor en Economía.
- Máster en Economía.
- Licenciada en Matemáticas. University of Bucharest
Biography
Ariadna Dumitrescu is an Associate Professor of Finance at ESADE Business School. She earned her PhD in Economics from IDEA at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and holds a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from the University of Bucharest.
She is a Member of the European Securities and Markets Authority ESMA Securities and Markets Stakeholder Group, Member of the Spanish National Securities Market Commission CNMV Economists Experts Group, Member of the Roster Experts Group European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency, The Green Advisory Service for Sustainable Investments Support Green Assist and Member of the Board of Directors of European Financial Management Association.
Her research deals with market participants' strategic behaviour and the role of information in investors' decisions with applications to market microstructure, asset management and sustainable finance. Her research results have been published in journals such as Journal of Finance, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, European Financial Management, Economics Letters and Journal of Financial Markets, among others.
She has been an invited speaker at prestigious events such as the SIX Swiss Exchange Group Sustainability Council, the 9th Annual Conference of the International Corporate Governance Society, Life Sciences Impact Day, Impact and Return, AltamarCAM, the Esade Student Finance Society, 'Towards More Sustainable Finance: Challenges and Opportunities,' the Spanish National Securities Market Commission Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores, and the Menéndez Pelayo International University UIMP.
She teaches Financial Markets and Institutions, Financial Economics and Sustainable Finance at Undergraduate, Master and Executive level. Her teaching portfolio also includes Corporate Finance, Corporate Valuation, Derivatives Markets, Risk Management, Financial Modelling and Market Microstructure, among other subjects.
Selected publications
- Luis Yagüe Marrón, J., Yang, A., Yoo, W., Yu, W., Yu, Y., Yu, S., Yueshen, B. Z., Yuferova, D., Zamojski, M., Zareei, A., Zeisberger, S. M., Zhang, L., Zhang, S. S., Zhang, X., Zhao, L., Zhong, Z., Zhou, Z. I., Zhou, C., Zhu, X. S., Zoican, M. & Zwinkels, R. (2024). Nonstandard Errors. Journal of Finance, 79 (3), pp. 2339-2390. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jofi.13337.
- Dumitrescu, A. (2024, April). Does the corporate governance matter for stock returns? [Online forum post]. Esade. Center for Corporate Governance. https://www.esade.edu/itemsweb/wi/research/cgc/Articulo_Importa-la-gobernanza-corporativa-para-los-rendimientos-de-las-acciones_A_Dumitrescu.pdf.
- De Jesus, M. & Dumitrescu, A. (2023). Information processing frictions and price informativeness: Evidence from a natural experiment. Social Science Research Network.
- Bayona, A., Dumitrescu, A. & Manzano, C. (2023). Information and optimal trading strategies with dark pools. Economic Modelling, 126, 106376. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2023.106376.
- 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, 86, 102540. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2023.102540.
- Dumitrescu, A. & Zakriya, M. (2022). Governance, information flow, and stock returns. Journal of Corporate Finance, 72, 102168. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2022.102168.
- Dumitrescu, A. & Zakriya, M. (2021). Stakeholders and the stock price crash risk: What matters in corporate social performance?. Journal of Corporate Finance, 67, 101871. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2020.101871.
- Dumitrescu, A. (2021). El mercado de valores y la economía.
- Caballé, J. & Dumitrescu, A. (2020). Disclosure of corporate tax reports, tax enforcement, and price information. Journal of Banking and Finance, 121, 105978. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbankfin.2020.105978.
- 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. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2019.101371.
- Dumitrescu, A. (2019). Retained earnings, interest rates and lending relationship. B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 19 (1), 20170003. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/bejte-2017-0002.
- Dumitrescu, A. & Gil-Bazo, J. (2018). Market frictions, investor sophistication, and persistence in mutual fund performance. Journal of Financial Markets, 40, pp. 40-59. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.finmar.2018.01.001.
- Dumitrescu, A. & Gil-Bazo, J. (2016). Information and investment under uncertainty. Economics Letters, 148, pp. 17-22. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2016.08.043.
- Dumitrescu, A. (2010). Liquidity and optimal market transparency. European Financial Management, 16 (4), pp. 599-623. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-036X.2008.00474.x.
- Dumitrescu, A. (2010). Correlated-asset trading and disclosure of private information. The handbook of trading: Strategies for navigating and profiting from currency, bond, and stock markets (pp. 429-442).
- Dumitrescu, A. (2010). The strategic specialist and imperfect competition in a limit order market. Journal of Banking and Finance, 34 (1), pp. 255-266. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbankfin.2009.07.027.
- Dumitrescu, A. (2007). Valuation of defaultable bonds and debt restructuring. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 102 (2), pp. 94-111. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2006.07.001.
- Dumitrescu, A. (2007). Valuation of defaultable bonds and debt restructuring. Journal of Corporate Finance, 13 (1), pp. 94-111. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2006.07.001.