The paper entitled “Thebright side of financial derivatives: Options trading and firm innovation”
coauthored by Ivan Blanco and David Wehrheim, has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Financial Economics, a top research journal in the Finance area. Iván and David are students of our Phd Business&Finance program. Iván has recently defended his thesis, and David
Wehrheim will do it in the next months.Congratulations to our students for this great achievement! UC3M Business also congratulate to their advisors Alejandro Balbás (Iván Blanco) and Neus Palomeras (David Wehrheim), and professors José M. Marín and José Penalva, who are in charge of our increasingly successfull PhD Program. Well done!You can download a versión of this nice paper here:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2586441

Alicia Barroso Ludeña and Eline de Vries have got a Ramón Areces Foundation Project
Our colleages have obtained a research grant awarded by the Fundación Ramón Areces. Their project is lead by Alicia Barroso and it is entitled “¿Cómo debería ser el gobierno corporativo y la información contable para facilitar el acceso de la empresa a fuentes de financiación?”.


