Teaching
Courses (Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics):
- Risk management, MSc Course, since 2014
- Risk management, Master in Finance (executive education), since 2014.
Master thesis supervision (Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics):
2023:
Joana Monteiro, Bank CEO ownership, performance and risk
Lisa Marquordt, Capital Structure in the Context of M&A: Target Leverage and the Post-Acquisition Speed of Adjustment
Alexia Ubiali, The influence of possible credit score upgrades and downgrades on companies' capital structure
Isabella Wladis , Is the Green Transition at Risk? Investigating the effects of the pandemic on green bank lending
Mohamed Sellami, The impact of COVID-19 on Portuguese firms’ capital structure
José Freitas, EPI Score effect on the Portuguese government bond yield spread
Antonio Lopez, CSPP: The Impact on Firms´ Capital Structure
Rui Guerra, Implication of Monetary policy on Bank’s profitability: low interest rate environment (2005-2021) - The case of Eurozone listed banks
Ahmed Yassine Zouari, The effect of credit ratings on firm’s leverage in the aftermath of 2008 (Evidence from the U.S Market)
Elena Simón Núñez, Quantifying the impact of cyber-attacks on a company’s value
2022:
Miguel Puim, Determinants of Capital Structure: Impact of the Net Financing Expenses Regime in Portugal
Mafalda Lencastre, Is the ECB Monetary Policy Strategy Review a catalyst towards a sustainable financial system? Evidence from market reactions.
Diogo Vicente Santos, Generalists versus Specialists: Iberian public firm performance in a gender perspective
Bernardo Garcês, Braving the zero-leverage unknown: Post-crisis performance and credit dynamics of Portuguese firms
Filipe Salamon, How has the pandemic impacted zombie firms in Europe?
Pedro Ferreira, How different are the determinants of corporate decisions in times of shock? - Evidence from September 11, Global Financial Crisis, and COVID-19 Pandemic
Lukas Moss, Leverage Deficit and Firm Acquisitions
Francisca Mello e Castro, Business Cycles, Nature of Firms’ Assets, and Financing Decisions
Amanda Violante, The impact of post 2008 financial crisis regulations on organized exchange markets of interest rate derivatives in the United States
António Gomes de Oliveira, Determinants and trends of dividend distribution in the US
Margarida Frango, Doing well by doing good - The relationship between Credit Ratings and Corporate Governance:
A study on U.S. firms
Mariana Dias, Zombie Firms and the Process of Natural Selection
Ana Tavares, CSR and Firm Performance: An analysis during the COVID-19 pandemic
Afonso Pedroso, The relation between capital ratios and banks’ financial performance
2021:
Maria Portugal, The zero-leverage puzzle: Evidence from Portuguese Firms
Aymeric Dumont de Chassart, The impact of notional interest deduction on the capital structure of SME in Belgium
Joana Martins, Social Capital and Firm Performance: The Resiliency of Corporate Social Responsibility to COVID-19
Bernardo Dias, The relationship between Corporate Green Bond Yields and Firm Leverage
Carolina Higuchi, Impacto de Covid-19 nas Companhias Aéreas Comerciais
João Anjo, Financing the Green Transition and Banking Exposure to Climate Relevant Sectors in Europe and in Portugal
2020:
Joana de Oliveira Gomes, The Impact of Credit Ratings on the Decision-making Process behind Capital Structures
Manuel Murta Cardoso, Impact of Leverage in Mergers & Acquisitions Performance: Evidence from US Public Firms
Isaac Silvestre, Are manager’s good market listeners?
Filipe Perre da Silva, Contagion intra-industry effects of bankruptcies
David Lopes, Equity Market Timing, How Long Does It Last?
Afonso Pereira, The Subprime Crisis Effects on Leverage Mechanisms
Sílvia Coelho, The effects of sovereign rating actions on bank ratings
Rita Coelho, Corporate governance in banks: Did the 2008-2012 crisis change the boards and was it enough?
Rafael Oliveira, Common Ownership in the Airline Industry: Can Investment Managers create Oligopolistic Behaviors in Airline Market?
João Alvarenga, Have low interest rates led to a different bank business model?
Catarina Santos Pereira, How negative interest rates influence banks’ profitability and risk
2019:
Ana Carolina Rebelo Silva, Determinants of Bank Failures in a Deregulated Context: Evidence from the Portuguese Banking Sector in the 19th Century
Bruno Alves, Do loan officers get soft by the month-end? Lending inefficiency and the end-of-month effect: the Portuguese case
Miguel Cravo Ferreira, What happens when the ECB opens the cash tap? An application to the Portuguese credit market.
António Stilwell, Do tax reforms affect the probability of the companies going bankrupt?
André Capela, CSPP: measuring the announcement impact
Diana Ventura, Credit ratings and corporate diversification : The Aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis
Ana Filipa Cordeiro, Profitability and risk of European banks – a comparison between fixed and floating rates
Franziska Lange, Deviation from Target Capital Structure: Evidence from large Acquisitions
Miguel Campos, Start-ups’ Decisions and their Impact on Performance
Patrícia Cardoso, Unemployment insurance benefits and corporate financing decisions: Evidence from Europe
Patrícia Fernandes, The impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on the performance of European firms
Shaiza Sulemane, Conventional Banks Vs Islamic Banks: Who has better performance?
Ana Ulrich Pessanha, How FinTechs And Their Partnerships With Financial Institutions Are Closing The Banking Gap: Challenges And Opportunities Faced Towards Greater Financial Inclusion
Sabino Corrêa, The Financial Behavior of Crypto Assets Markets
2018:
Tim Felix Glombitza, Does risk management have an influence on market value in non-financial industries? Evidence from the chemical industry
Francisco Gomes Pereira, Impacts of Basel III announcements on European bank business models
Luís Santos, Bank regulation and its impact on profitability
Catarina de Mendonça, Corporate innovation and its peers' effects
António Teles, Access to finance and the type of Ownership: Do different firms behave differently when constrained?
Ricardo Santos, Types of top executive compensation and the aggregate cost of debt
Ana Pereira da Costa, Do debt and saving together determine sustainable growth?
2017:
David Taylor Pereira, GDP-Linked Bonds: Design, effects, pricing and way forward
Bernd Edelmann, The effects of bail-ins on bail-out expectations in the European banking sector
Pedro Moreira, Leverage variation and its relation to the industry characteristics
Inês Carvalho, What is the impact of access to external finance on SMEs capital structure on Europe?
Gonçalo Arroja,Do changes in tax regulation affect firms' capital structure?
Jerson Li Lin, Short-term stock returns following rating agencies announcements in large European firms
2016:
Meriem Kanzari, Are Women The Superheroes of the Corporate World?
Marta Gonçalves, Has the crisis impacted the determinants of capital structure for Portuguese public firms?
Maria Kostyunina, Access to the Public Debt Market Effect on Corporate Leverage: Evidence from the US
Ana Beatriz Videira, What is the impact of a Capital Structure change on firm’s Human Capital?
João Félix, Revenue-Based Financing
2015:
Rui Calvo, Offer price: a contribution to the explanation of the IPO underpricing puzzle
Catarina Medeiros, Can family ownership influence firms' capital structure decisions?
Rodrigo Mendes, The role of lease financing
João Val Bento, Balance Sheet Optimization Tool Under the Basel III framework
Luís Almeida, The impact of capital regulation on banks’ cost and profit efficiency under stressful economic conditions: cross-country evidence
Pedro Martins, Capital structure decisions in the context of corporate spin-offs: The case of PT Multimedia
Diogo Nascimento, Effect of U.S. Federal Budget on S&P 500 Index
2014:
Pedro Santos Pinto, Capital Structure Active Management: A Contingent Claim Approach
Rui Fonseca, The implementation of the Basel III Countercyclical Capital Buffer in Portugal
2013:
José Carlos Morais, Drivers of Corporate Bankruptcy and Default - Study Concerning Portuguese Companies
Pedro Santos Ferreira, Bankruptcy resolution: An empirical investigation of debtor-in-possession financing, exit financing and corporate governance
Rute Xavier Lino, Mortgage Prepayments in Portugal