Bio

Claudia Custodio is an Associate Professor of Finance at Imperial College.

She was awarded her PhD from the London School of Economics in 2010, where she was affiliated with the Financial Markets Group (FMG). She is now a research associate at the FMG and ECGI. She is also a CEPR research fellow. After graduating Claudia spent time in the US working within the Department of Finance at the W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University before moving back to her native Lisbon to join NOVA school of Business and Economics. Claudia’s research focus is Corporate Finance and her work has been published several times in academic journals such as the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics and the Review of Financial Studies. She is also the author of a Corporate Finance textbook in Portuguese " Finanças da Empresa". In 2019 she was awarded an ERC starting grant to study the impact of financial constraints of small firms on firm growth.