María Natividad Blasco de las Heras

 
Natividad Blasco is a Full Professor at the University of Zaragoza (UZ). She has been teaching different courses in Financial Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration since 1990. She has 4 six-year research periods positively assessed by the competent authority within the Ministry of Economy (1991-1996, 1997-2002, 2003-2008 and 2009-2014 ).
 
She combines teaching and research with professional collaboration with public and private institutions and companies: Economic and Social Council of Aragon, Association of Social Councils for Public Universities, Artifex Consultants, Ibercaja, Bank of Spain, and Spanish Finance Association.
 
 
Research topics:
 
·         Capital Markets
 
·         Behavioural Finance
 

Papers selected:
·         “Detecting intentional herding: what lies beneath intraday data in the Spanish stock market?” (with Corredor, C and Ferreruela, S.), Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2011, 62, pp. 1056-1066. (SSCI Business, Finance, JCR Impact Factor 2010: 1.102; JCR Impact Factor 2015: 0.953)
·         “Market sentiment: a key factor of investors’ imitative behaviour” (with Corredor, C and Ferreruela, S.), Accounting and Finance, 2012, 52, pp. 663-689. (SSCI Business, Finance, JCR Impact Factor 2010: 0.432; JCR Impact Factor 2015: 0.927)
·         “Does herding affect volatility? Implications for the Spanish stock market” (with Corredor, C and Ferreruela, S.), Quantitative Finance, 2012, 12, pp. 311-327. (SSCI Business, Finance, JCR Impact Factor 2010: 0.590; JCR Impact Factor 2015: 0.794)