Laura Andreu

Associate Professor · Department of Accounting and Finance

University of Zaragoza

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Short Bio

Laura Andreu is an Associate Professor of Finance and an Associate Researcher at the Institute on Employment, Digital Society and Sustainability (IEDIS) at the University of Zaragoza. She started as a research fellow at the University of Zaragoza in 2006 and received her doctorate in 2009, with a thesis entitled “Financial Management of Spanish Pension Plans: Comparison to the UK Market”. The thesis produced four international JCR-indexed publications in Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance: Issues and Practice (2007), Spanish Journal of Finance and Accounting (2010), Journal of Pension Economics and Finance (2010), and Journal of Business Economics and Management (2015).

Her research focuses on portfolio management (mutual funds and pension plans) and behavioural finance (manager and investor behaviour). Her work has been published in International Review of Financial Analysis, Finance Research Letters, Research in International Business and Finance, Journal of Cleaner Production, and European Journal of Operational Research, among others.

She has supervised one PhD thesis and has collaborated with INVERCO (Asociación de Instituciones de Inversión Colectiva y Fondos de Pensiones) and with the «Cátedra Emprender» initiative. Laura Andreu served as Vice Dean of Social and Cultural Projection of the Faculty of Economics and Business Studies (2011–2015) and as academic coordinator of the Finance and Accounting Degree (2016–2023) at the University of Zaragoza. She is also a member of the editorial board of Finance Research Letters.

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Awards & Distinctions

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Inverco Award for Best Paper in Asset Management – 29th Finance Forum of the Spanish Finance Association (AEFIN), 2022.
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Nomination, Best Teacher in Spain-University – Educa Abanca Award, 2024.
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International Visits

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University of Exeter
Exeter, United Kingdom
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Erasmus University
Rotterdam, Netherlands
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University of Cologne
Cologne, Germany
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Victoria University
Melbourne, Australia
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University of Minho
Braga, Portugal
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Selected Publications

2025
Business Strategy and the Environment
Media Attention to Climate Change and Investor Flows in US Equity Mutual Funds
2025
Research in International Business and Finance
Reversal of divergent decisions: Wise or hasty decisions?
2023
Finance Research Letters
Family competition via divergence in the trading of funds
2022
International Review of Financial Analysis
Fund Trading Divergence and Performance Contribution
2022
Research in International Business and Finance
Diversification and manager autonomy in fund families: implications for investors
2022
Journal of Cleaner Production
Cluster analysis to validate the sustainability label of stock indices: An analysis of the inclusion and exclusion processes in terms of size and ESG ratings
2019
European Journal of Operational Research
Efficiency of mutual fund managers: A slacks-based manager efficiency index