Pedro J. Cuadros-Solas, PhD

SHORT BIO: 

Associate (tenured) professor at CUNEF Universidad (Madrid-Spain). PhD. in Economics from the University of Granada (Spain). My research interests lie in banking, financial digitalization, corporate finance (underwriting), financial intermediation, and financial crises. My research work has been published in international journals such as the Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Financial Stability, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, European Journal of Finance, International Review of Financial Analysis, Financial Innovation, Research in International Business and Finance, International Review of Economics & Finance, Plos-ONE, and Global Policy as well as in books edited by Springer-Palgrave. I have been awarded (twice) the accessit prize research by the Fundación de Estudios Financieros (FEF) for the paper "The impact of lending relationships on the choice and structure of bond underwriting syndicates" (in 2017) and the paper “Am I riskier if I rescue my banks? Beyond the effects of bailouts” (in 2020). I have also been awarded the research prize for the best thesis in Economics by the Real Academia de Doctores de España (RADE). 

Selected publications (Full list of publications)

• Bank Supervisory Architecture and Sovereign Risk. Journal of Financial Stability, 76 (February 2025), 101365 (with Salvador, C. and Suárez, N.)

• Digital disruptors at the gate. Does FinTech lending affect bank market power and stability? Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, 92 (April 2024), 101964 (with Cubillas, E. Salvador, C. and Suárez, N.)

• Does alternative digital lending affect bank performance? Cross-country and bank-level evidence. International Review of Financial Analysis, 90 (November 2023), 102873 (with Cubillas, E. and Salvador, S.)

• Am I riskier if I rescue my banks? Beyond the effects of bailouts  Journal of Financial Stability, 56 (October 2021), 100935 (with Salvador, C. and Suárez, N.)

• The impact of lending relationships on the choice and structure of bond underwriting syndicates Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, 74 (September 2021), 101403 (with Carbó-Valverde, S. and Rodríguez-Fernández, F.)

• The effects of negative interest rates: a literature review and additional evidence on the performance of the European banking sector. European Journal of Finance, 27 (18), 1908-1938 (2021) (with Carbó-Valverde, S. and Rodríguez-Fernández, F.)

• Do bank bailouts have an impact on the underwriting business? Journal of Financial Stability, 49 (August 2020) (2020) (with Carbó-Valverde, S. and Rodríguez-Fernández, F.)

• Do banks and industrial companies have equal access to reputable underwriters in debt markets? Journal of Corporate Finance, 45 (1), 176-202 (2017) (with Carbó-Valverde, S. and Rodríguez-Fernández, F.)