Some researchers devote their work to financial markets. CUBE researchers in this group focus on topics such as market efficiency, financial innovation, return predictability, asset allocation, institutional trading or international portfolios. Important contributions in this area José Faias’ paper “Optimal Option Portfolio Strategies: Deepening the Puzzle of Index Option Mispricing”, published in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis in 2017, which proposes a new method of building option portfolios that overcomes previous significant limitations.
Finance is an everpresent part of everyday life today, and we all interact with it one way or another - be it more closely, when it comes to our own household accounts and spending or which banks we choose to put our money into, or in a more distant way, through the news about financial markes and corporate finance, which end up shaping the world we live in.
Researchers in Finance and Accounting at CATÓLICA-LISBON work across all these aspects to better understand the field, its impacts, and its future. Our research team, which works in cooperation with the rest of the areas at CATÓLICA-LISBON to create truly multidisciplinary work that helps explain the way the financial world all around us works, and also can be spun out into best practices recommendations and other practical impacts after the fact.
Research on Finance and Accounting is essential towards a better understanding of such realms as banking, accounting, the housing market, or corporate finance, areas which hold up the world’s economies and significantly impact everyday decisions and events.
The award-winning researchers at CUBE - who have been recognized for their work in themes as disparate as methods for building investment portfolios and the benefits of renting versus purchasing a house - explore the frontiers of these subjects, in coordination with their colleagues in other institutions across the world. In the past five years alone, members of this group have authored over 30 publications, published in reputed journals such as the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Management Science, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and The Accounting Review.
The team regularly publishes in top journals. The members’ work has impacted the profession’s understanding of such important issues as portfolio allocation, market efficiency, tail risk, executive compensation, bank regulation and debtor protection regulation.
Researchers from the Finance and Accounting group at CATÓLICA-LISBON collaborate with some of the top journals in their fields. They have been reviewers for the American Economic Review, the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies, or Management Science, among others.
The dissemination of the knowledge produced within this researched group is also a priority to the team. Researchers from the business school have spoken at many relevant events, including those organized by the American Finance Association, the National Bureau of Economic Research, the European Finance Association, Eurofidai, the Financial Intermediation Research Society and the European Accounting Association.
CUBE researchers have presented their research in more than one hundred international seminars and conferences worldwide in the past six years. They have also been the organizers of the Lisbon Accounting Conference, bringing leading scholars to Lisbon.