Melissa Porras Prado
Full Professor in Finance at Nova School of Business and Economics
NOVO BANCO Chair in ESG
Research Affiliate at CEPR
Email: melissa.prado@novasbe.pt
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PUBLISHED PAPERS:
Identity, Diversity, and Team Performance: Evidence from U.S. Mutual Funds (with Richard B. Evans, A. Emanuele Rizzo, and Rafael Zambrana) Management Science 2025 71:4, 3026-3051. doi: https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2022.00544
Capital Commitment and Performance: The Role of Mutual Fund Charges (with Juan Pedro Gomez and Rafael Zambrana) Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis , Volume 59 , Issue 2 , March 2024 , pp. 727 - 758, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022109022001235
Competition and Cooperation in Mutual Fund Families (with Richard B. Evans and Rafael Zambrana), Journal of Financial Economics, (2020) 136, 168-188
An Analysis of Over-the-Counter and Centralized Stock Lending Markets (with Zsuzsa R. Huszar), Journal of Financial Markets, (2019) 43, 31-53.
Basis-Momentum (with Martijn Boons), Journal of Finance, (2019) Vol. 74, (1), p.239-280. Replication Data
Fund Performance and Equity Lending: Why Lend What You Can Sell? (with Richard B. Evans and Miguel Ferreira), Review of Finance, (2017) V21 (3), 1093-1121.
Ownership Structure, Limits to Arbitrage, and Stock Returns: Evidence from Equity Lending Markets, (with Pedro Saffi and Jason Sturgess), The Review of Financial Studies, (2016), V29 (12): 3211-3244. Editor's choice.
Future Lending Income and Security Value , Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, (2015), 50 (04): 869-902.
Short Sales and Fundamental Value: Explaining the REIT Premium to NAV (with D. Brounen and D. Ling), Real Estate Economics (2013), V41 (3): 32-46.
Real Estate in an ALM Framework - The Case of Fair Value Accounting (with D. Brounen and M. Verbeek), Real Estate Economics (2010), V38 (4): 775-804.
WORKING PAPERS:
The Real Effects of FinTech Lending on SMEs: Evidence from Loan Applications (with Afonso Eça, Miguel Ferreira, A. Emanuele Rizzo) (CEPR Discussion Paper DP16684),
VoxEU article here
Socially responsible investing and multinationals' environmental harm: Evidence from global remote sensing data (with Virginia Gianinazzi, Victoire Girard, and Mehdi Lehlali) (CEPR Discussion Paper DP19611)
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Nova School of Business and Economics
Campus de Carcavelos, Office D226
Rua da Holanda, 1
2775-405 Carcavelos, Portugal
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