prof. Israel Felipe

Israel Felipe is s an Associate Professor in the Department of Administrative Sciences and Head of the Graduate Program in Administration (PPGA) at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Brazil (2024–2027). He holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration (Finance) from Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV/EAESP), with a visiting research period at the University of Minho (Portugal). His main research interests lie within the fields of financial innovations, entrepreneurial and alternative finance, digital economics, public finance, health economics and financial decision-making. He has published high-impact papers in leading international journals such as the Journal of Business Research (JBR), Journal of Small Business Management (JSBM), Journal of Business Venturing Insights (JBVI), and Neural Computing and Applications.

Contact information:

Graduate Program of Administration (PPGA)

Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN)

Campus Natal - RN, 59078-900, Brazil

Phone: +55 84 3215 3536/3500

E-mail: israeljfelipe@gmail.com / israel.jose@ufrn.br

Book Chapter:

Economic crisis and Saving Behavior (2018). In: Wesley Mendes-Da-Silva. (Org.). Individual Behaviors and Technologies for Financial Innovations. 1ed.New York: Springer Nature. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-91911-9_3

Book:

Econometric modeling of price of agricultural commodities (2015). 1. ed. Saarbrücken (Germany): LAP Lambert Academic Publishing GmbH & Co. KG.

Book:

A proposal for future studies on theory and practice in Crowdfunding (2019). 1. ed. Saarbrücken (Germany): LAP Lambert Academic Publishing GmbH & Co KG.

Developed specialized course:

Course Title: Contabilidade de Custos em Saúde Pública (Public Health Cost Accounting)

Scope: Designed to equip professionals with fundamental cost accounting principles, allocation methods (such as absorption, variable, and ABC costing), and financial decision-making tools tailored for public health management and service delivery.

Impact & Scale: Currently enrolls nearly 4,000 students with a strong reputation backed by over 2,300 reviews. Developed through a partnership between UFRN, SEDIS, LAIS, and the Brazilian Ministry of Health via the AVASUS platform.

📚 Featured Publications

Nascimento, L. S., Correia, J. P., Francisco, E. R., & Felipe, I. J. S. (2026). Digital but not borderless: Geographic persistence in Brazilian equity crowdfunding. Journal of Business Venturing Insights (JBVI).

Romao, M. H. ; Paiva, J. C. L. ; Silva, L. M. ; Oliveira Junior, E. B. ; Costa, J. M. M. ; Felipe, I. J. dos S.; et al. (2026). Permanent health education for health economics in Brazil: a forgotten facet? Frontiers in Public Health.

Cavalcanti, G. D. C., Mendes-Da-Silva, W., Felipe, I. J. S., & Santos, L. A. (2024). Recent advances in applications of machine learning in reward crowdfunding success forecasting. Neural Computing and Applications.

Mendes-Da-Silva, W., Felipe, I. J. S., & Leal, C. C. (2024). How the tone of mass media news affects pledge amounts in reward crowdfunding campaigns. Journal of Small Business Management (JSBM).

Felipe, I. J. S., Mendes-Da-Silva, W., Leal, C. C., & Santos, D. B. (2022). Reward crowdfunding campaigns: Time-to-success analysis. Journal of Business Research (JBR).

Felipe, I. J. S., Mendes-Da-Silva, W., Ali, I. A., & Francisco, E. R. (2023). Good news from mass media induces more investments in the equity crowdfunding market. BAR - Brazilian Administration Review.

👨‍🎓 Teaching

Graduate Program (PPGA/UFRN): Quantitative Methods I, Corporate Governance, Alternative Finance, Master's Dissertation Seminar.

Undergraduate Level (UFRN): Financial Mathematics, Theory of Finance, Financial Markets, Business Budgeting, Macroeconomics, Brazilian Economy.

🌱 Student Supervision & Mentorship

Ph.D. Dissertations and Master's Theses supervision at PPGA/UFRN (Ongoing & Completed).

Undergraduate Research Mentorship (PIBIC/UFRN/UFOP) and Senior Thesis (TCC) Supervision.

Specialization Monograph Supervision in Public Health Audit.

🏆 Awards and achievements

(2024) Supervision of the award-winning project in the ANBIMA 2024 Master's Category. Master Student: Camila Guedes Farias.

(2024) Brazilian Administration Review (BAR) - Top 1 - Most viewed article of 2023 on BAR's website.

(2024) Brazilian Administration Review (BAR) - Top 3 - Most cited article of 2023 on Google Scholar.

(2023) Researcher at DEPAD - UFRN (ResearchGate) -The most read contributions from my departament.

(2022) Researcher at DEPAD and PPGA - UFRN (XLVI EnANPAD 2022) -The best paper of the finance division (with other authors).

(2022) Researcher at DEPAD and PPGA - UFRN (XLVI EnANPAD 2022) -The best paper of EnANPAD 2022 (with other authors).

(2021) Researcher at DECAD - UFOP (ResearchGate) -The most read contributions from my departament.

(2020) Researcher at DECAD - UFOP (ResearchGate) -The most read contributions from my departament.

(2020) Researcher at DECAD - UFOP (Social Science Research Network - SSRN) - Download Milestones at SSRN.

(2019) Researcher at DECAD - UFOP (ResearchGate) -The most read contributions from my departament.

(2019) Researcher at DECAD - UFOP (Social Science Research Network - SSRN) - Download Milestones at SSRN.

(2018) Researcher at DECAD - UFOP (ResearchGate) -The most read contributions from my departament.

(2018) 1st place in the contest for Professor of the Federal Magisterium Effective - UTFPR (Edital 014/2018).

(2018) Researcher at DECAD - UFOP (Social Science Research Network - SSRN) - Download Milestones at SSRN.

(2018) 1st place in the contest for Professor of the Federal Magisterium Effective - UTFPR (Edital 014/2018).

(2017) Monography Contest Prize CFA Brazil Finance Innovation Society

(2017) Researcher at DECAD - UFOP (ResearchGate) -The most read contributions from my departament.

(2017) Researcher at DECAD - UFOP (Social Science Research Network - SSRN) - Download Milestones at SSRN.

(2016) Researcher at DECAD - UFOP (ResearchGate) -The most read contributions from my departament.

(2016) Researcher at DECAD - UFOP (Social Science Research Network - SSRN) - Download Milestones at SSRN.

(2015) Researcher at DECAD - UFOP (ResearchGate) -The most read contributions from my departament.

(2015) Researcher at DECAD - UFOP (Social Science Research Network - SSRN) - Download Milestones at SSRN.

(2015) Professor honored at UFOP.

(2013) 1st place in the contest for Professor of the Federal Magisterium Effective - Finance and Quantitative Methods - UFOP (Edital 07/2013).

(2012) Professor honored at UniFacex.

(2010) Honorable Mention of the best undergraduate thesis - UFRN.

🏛️ Editorial Boards & Academic Service

Editorial Board Member: Journal of Alternative Finance (SAGE journals).

Ad-Hoc Reviewer for International & National Journals: Journal of Business Research (JBR), British Accounting Review, Finance Research Letters, Journal of Cleaner Production, RAE, BAR, RAC, among others.

Academic Committees: Active reviewer and track chair for major conferences (ANPAD, SBE, SBFin).

🔬 Research Group Fellow & Associate

Observatório da Inovação Financeira (FGV/EAESP).

Laboratório de Inovação Tecnológica em Saúde (LAIS/UFRN).

Finance Research Group (NUFIN/UFRN).

Strategy & Public Policy Management Research Center (BEPEGE/UFRN).

Former Associate Researcher at NIPE – University of Minho, Portugal (2017–2022).

🔬 Major & Ongoing Research Projects

2026 – Present: Mapping Parliamentary Amendment Allocation for Health Equipment in Rio Grande do Norte.

2025 – Present: Advances in Health Economics in Brazil: A Systematic Review of National Scientific Production.

2023 – Present: Transformations in Financial Management: Innovations in Assets, Emerging Businesses, and Technologies.

2023 – Present: Health Economics from the Perspective of Public Policy Evaluation (Cooperation with the Brazilian Ministry of Health & LAIS/UFRN).

📊 Academic Impact Metrics

Google Scholar

+398 Citations | 79 Listed Publications

Scopus & Web of Science

58 Scopus Citations | 18 Web of Science Citations

High-Impact Publications

+40 Journal Articles | 2 Books (Germany) | 1 Book Chapter (Springer Nature)