Laura Andreu Sánchez

Laura Andreu is Lecturer of Finance at University of Zaragoza (UZ). She obtained her degree in Business Administration with honours in 2005 and received the Social Sciences Award of the University of Zaragoza. Her PhD dissertation with international mention entitled “Financial Management of Spanish Pension Plans: Comparison to the UK market” was defended in 2009 in University of Zaragoza. 
She has taught courses in financial economics at Faculty of Economics and Business Administration since 2007.
She has been Visiting Researcher and Erasmus lecturer in several international universities: University of Exeter (UK), Erasmus University (Netherlands), University of Cologne (Germany), Victoria University (Australia) and University of Minho (Portugal). 
She was Vice dean of Social and cultural activities at Faculty of Economics and Business Administration from June 2011 to May 2015. Later, from September 2016 until now she is the coordinator of the Finance and Accounting degree.
 
Research topics: 
Mutual and Pension Funds
Portfolio Management
Behavioural Finance
 
Papers selected:
“Efficiency of mutual fund managers:  a slacks-based manager efficiency index” (with Miguel Serrano and Luis Vicente), European Journal of Operational Research, 2019, 273(3), pp. 1180-1193 (SSCI Operations Research and Management Science, JCR Impact Factor 2018: 3.806)
“Paper profits or real money? Trading costs and stock market anomalies in country ETFs” (with Adam Zaremba), International Review of Financial Analysis, 2018, 56, pp. 181-192 (SSCI Business and Finance, JCR Impact Factor 2018: 2.029)
“Choosing two business degrees versus choosing one: What does it tell about mutual fund managers’ investment behaviour?” (with Alexander Puetz), Journal of Business Research, 2017, 75, pp. 138-146 (SSCI Business, JCR Impact Factor 2017: 2.509).