Isabel Marco
Associate Professor
Email: imarcosa@unizar.es
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Short bio
Isabel Marco holds a PhD in Economics and Business Administration from the University of Zaragoza, which awarded her the Extraordinary Doctorate Prize in the 2001-2002 academic year. She is an Associate Professor of Financial Economics and Accounting. She teaches Finance at the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Zaragoza (Department of Accounting and Finance).
Currently, and since the academic year 2013/2014, she is the Director of two Postgraduate Studies at the University of Zaragoza:
– The Diploma of Specialization in Financial Consultancy and Market Operator (for students with university degree of access).
– The University Extension Diploma in Financial Consultancy and Market Operator (for students without a university degree).
She has been the Director of the Specialization Diploma in Financial Advisory and Wealth Management, Postgraduate Study at the University of Zaragoza for five years (2008/2009 to 2012/2013). From 1999 to 2007, she managed the Organizational Secretariat of the Diploma of Specialization in Financial Advisory and Wealth Management.
Between 2010 and 2014, she was a member of the Board of Directors of Ibercaja Banco, Ibercaja Mediación del Seguro and Ibercaja Participaciones Empresariales. She has also been a member of the Contracting Committee of the Financial Economics and Accounting area (Accounting and Finance Department) for nine years.
Isabel Marco teaches specialized courses in Finance at the Summer University of Teruel, Jaca, within the framework of INAEM and UNIVERSA. She is the author of several teaching books and has published numerous articles and research papers in national and international journals.
Selected Publications
- Marco-Sanjuán, I. and Alda-García, M. (2017). The importance of domestic equity pension funds on stock market, Spanish Journal of Finance and Accounting, 46(2), 227-248
- Muñoz, F., Vargas, M., and Marco, I. (2014). Environmental mutual funds: Financial performance and managerial abilities, Journal of Business Ethics, 124, 551-569.
- Marco-Sanjuán, I.; Muñoz-Sánchez, F., and Vargas-Magallón, M. (2011). Do ethical and conventional mutual fund managers show different risk taking behaviour?, The Spanish Review of Financial Economics, 9(1), 11-19.
- Ferruz-Agudo, L.; Marco-Sanjuán, I., and Ortiz-Lázaro, C. (2007). Socially responsible investment: mutual funds. Global and local trends, The International Journal of Applied Economics and Finance, 1(2), 120-125.
- Ferruz-Agudo, L.; Marco-Sanjuán, I., and Rivas-Compains, F. J. (2006). Advantages of International Financial Diversification in Europe through investment in equity funds, Journal of Applied Sciences, 6(1), 102-113.