Begoña Gutiérrez Nieto

Begoña Gutiérrez-Nieto is a Professor in Finance at the Universidad de Zaragoza. She is also an Associate Researcher in the Centre for European Research in Microfinance (CERMI) at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium). Her PhD on microfinance in Spain received the “Outstanding PhD Thesis Award”, “ESIC-CAI Research Award 2004” and the “La Caixa Research runner-up Award on Social Sciences 2004”. She also received the “First Prize on Quality Research on Human Development 2008” by the University Chancellors from Madrid for her research on microfinance institutions efficiency. Her paper entitled “A Credit Score System for Socially Responsible Lending” received the best Published Research Article Award for the 2017 Finance and Sustainability European Research Award by United Nations PRI (Principles for Responsible Investment).
She has authored several research articles and books on microfinance. She has been the co-editor-in-chief of the Iberoamerican Journal of Development Studies (2011-2017): http://ried.unizar.es/index.php/revista  
 
Research topics:
Microfinance, social finance
 

Papers selected:
Gutiérrez-Nieto B., Serrano-Cinca C. (2019). “20 years of research in microfinance: An information management approach”. International Journal of Information Management, 47C: 183-197. SSCI Impact Factor 2018: 5.063, Q1
Gutiérrez-Nieto, B.; Serrano-Cinca, C.; Camón-Cala, J. (2016). “A credit score system for socially responsible lending”. Journal of Business Ethics 133(4):691-701. SSCI Impact Factor 2016: 2.354, Q1
Serrano-Cinca, C., Gutiérrez-Nieto, B., Reyes, N. (2016). “A Social and Environmental Approach to Microfinance Credit Scoring”. Journal of Cleaner Production, 112(4): 3504–3513. SCI Impact Factor 2014: 3.844, Q1
Serrano-Cinca, C., Gutiérrez-Nieto, B., López, L. (2015). “Determinants of default in P2P lending”. PLoS ONE 10(10): e0139427. SCI Impact Factor 2015: 3.057, Q1
Gutiérrez Nieto, B.; Serrano Cinca, C., Mar Molinero, C. (2007): “Microfinance Institutions and Efficiency”, Omega 35(2):131-142. SSCI Impact Factor 2007: 1,327, Q1