Maria Sagrario Vargas Magallón

 
Maria Vargas is a Senior Lecturer of Finance at the University of Zaragoza (UZ). She has taught courses in financial economics at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration since 2005. Her PhD dissertation on Spanish Mutual funds was defended in 2006. 
 
She has been a Visiting Researcher in the University of Deusto (Spain) and in the University of Minho (Portugal).
 
She has published in several scientific journals as well as two book chapters for the North American Springer Editorial. She has supervised four PhD dissertations, one of them with a European mention and another with an international mention.
 
 
Research topics:
Mutual Funds
Portfolio Management
Socially Responsible Investment

Selected Publications:
“Socially responsible mutual fund exit decisions” (with Mercedes Alda and Fernando Muñoz), Business Ethics: A European Review, forthcoming 2020 (SSCI Business, Ethics, JCR Impact Factor 2018: 2.919)
“Fund flow bias in market timing skill. Evidence of the clientele effect” (with Fernando Muñoz and Ruth Vicente), International Review of Economics & Finance, 2014, 33, pp. 257-269 (SSCI Business and Finance, JCR Impact Factor 2014: 1,704)
“Environmental mutual funds: Financial performance and managerial abilities”, (with Isabel Marco and Fernando Muñoz), Journal of Business Ethics, 2014, 124(4), pp. 551-569. (SSCI Business and Ethics, JCR Impact Factor 2014: 1,326). 
“Managerial abilities: Evidence from religious mutual fund managers” (with Luis Ferruz and Fernando Muñoz), Journal of Business Ethics, 2012, 105(4), pp.503-517. (SSCI Business and Ethics, JCR Impact Factor 2012: 1,253).