annual report - Ivie

Services Industries Journal, Sex Roles and Tourism Management, and in the most important refereed journals
in Spain. He is also associate editor for Europe of the Journal of Modelling in Management. In addition, he has
presented numerous papers at AM, EMAC and AMS Congresses. (Personal web page: http://www.uv.es/aldas).
Iván Arribas (Universitat de València)
Dr Arribas graduated in Mathematics with special honors and obtained his PhD in Economy from the
Universitat de València, where he is currently an Associate Professor. He has participated in National R&D Plan
projects, and his specialist fields are techniques of quantitative analysis and the temporal series, game theory,
information economy and international integration. He has given courses at the Central Bank of the Dominican
Republic and the Universidad de Mar del Plata (Argentina), and has taken part in diverse international scientific
meetings. (Personal web page: http://www.uv.es/iarribas/).
Juan Fernández de Guevara (Universitat de València)
Dr Fernández de Guevara graduated and obtained his PhD (with special honors) in Economics from the
Universitat de València, where his is currently Assistant Professor of Economic Analysis. Since 2011, he is
associate researcher of the Ivie. His specialized fields are banking, productivity analysis and social capital. He
has been researcher on the INDICSER Project of the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme,
on the National R&D Plan Project Factores de crecimiento y competitividad: capital tecnológico, capital
humano, infraestructuras y desarrollo financiero and advisor for the United Nations. He has published fifteen
books and book chapters and more than twenty articles in specialized journals such as Journal of Banking and
Finance, The Manchester School, The European Journal of Finance, Journal of International Money and
Finance, Revista de Economía Aplicada, Regional Studies, Applied Economics Letters, among others, and has
taken part in more than twenty-five national and international congresses.
Belén Gill de Albornoz (Universitat Jaume I)
Dr Gill de Albornoz graduated in Economics and Business Studies from the University of Zaragoza and obtained
a PhD from the Universitat Jaume I. She is Associate Professor of Financial Economy and Accountancy and has
taken part in projects for the National R&D Plan, the AECA and the European Commission. Her specialist areas
are financial economy and public finances, the quality of accounting data and corporate government. She
stayed several years at the University of Lancaster (UK), and as well as participating in various national and
international congresses, she has had articles published in diverse national and international journals. In 2012
she received a Prize from the Fundación de Estudios Financieros for her research work Income smoothing and
idiosyncratic volatility.
Manuel Illueca (Universitat Jaume I)
Dr Illueca graduated in Economics and Business Studies from the Universitat de València (1993) and obtained
a PhD in Business Administration and Management from the Universitat Jaume I (2001), where he is currently
Associate Professor in Financial Economics and Accounting. In 2007 he was a visiting scholar in the Finance
Department of the University of Indiana (USA). His research fields are financial statement analysis, the
economics of banking, and financial derivatives. His articles have been published in national journals
(Investigaciones Económicas, Revista de Contabilidad, Revista Española de Financiación y Contabilidad,
Spanish Economic Review, among others) and international ones (Applied Economics, Energy Economics,
International Small Business Journal, Journal of Futures Markets, among others). He is also editor of the
Revista Española de Contabilidad and, during 2011, he was editor of the Spanish Accounting Review.
José Manuel Pastor (Universitat de València)
Dr Pastor is an Associate Professor at the Universitat de València, where he graduated in Economics in 1990
and received his PhD with special honors in 1996. Currently, he is also vice-dean of Jobs, Internships, Business
Relations and Economy at the Faculty of Economics. He specializes in banking, regional economics and
economics of education. He has received scholarships from several institutions (Valencian Regional
Government, Caja de Madrid Foundation, and FIES) and was a visiting researcher in the Finance department at
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