Short Bio
María Vargas is an Associate Professor at the Accounting and Finance Department and an associate researcher at the Institute on Employment, Digital Society and Sustainability (IEDIS) at the University of Zaragoza. She has supervised four PhD dissertations, three of them focused on mutual funds.
Her research, initially focused on mutual funds in general, evolved towards socially responsible mutual funds. Key topics include the analysis of how non-financial constraints impact fund managers’ skills, the cash-flow timing skills of socially responsible investors, product differentiation strategies based on fund prospectus information, style-deviation practices and their consequences on money flows and sustainable scores, and the application of the Global Sustainable Competitiveness Index to sovereign bond funds.