Short Bio
Miguel Serrano is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Accounting and Finance at the University of Zaragoza. He received his doctorate from the University of Zaragoza in 2017 after defending the thesis “Three essays about mutual fund and manager behaviour”. He has been a visiting researcher at the University of Minho (Portugal).
His research focuses on mutual funds and manager behaviour. He has analyzed the financial implications of manager replacement in Spanish equity mutual funds, examined the implications of risk shifting to mutual fund investors through monthly portfolio holdings, developed a manager efficiency index accounting for manager specialization, and analyzed the impact of management company structure on divergence among mutual funds. His research has also examined the reversal of divergent trading decisions and the diffusion of information within fund families. His work has been published in Finance Research Letters, European Journal of Operational Research, International Review of Economics and Finance, Research in International Business and Finance, and European Financial Management, among others.
He has participated in several projects funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, the Government of Aragón, the University of Zaragoza, and the Ibercaja Foundation. He has also served on the scientific committee of the Workshop for Young Researchers in Business and Economics and on the organizing committees of the International Conference on Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management (ICIAPM) and the Nordic-Iberian Doctoral Workshop on Business Economics.