Mrs. IRENE COMEIG

Harvard University Research Fellow, Women and Public Policy Program Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard, Research Fellow; Associate Professor at University of Valencia, Spain.
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Dr. Irene Comeig is Research Fellow at Harvard University (USA), at the Harvard Kennedy School in the Women and Public Policy Program (WAPPP). She is an Associate Professor of Finance (with tenure) at the University of Valencia (Spain) and taught Corporate Finance as a Visiting Professor at the University of Virginia (USA), Department of Economics, from 2012 to 2015. She has also been a Visiting Professor at the University of Trento (Fall 2023), University of Lausanne (Fall 2022) and at the University of Geneva (November 2007-October 2010). Her PhD Thesis obtained the Young Research Award in Economics from the General Foundation of the Complutense University of Madrid, and the Victor Mendoza Award for PhD Theses (1st accésit) from the Institute of Economic Studies (IEE, Spain).

Her main areas of research include Behavioral Finance, Experimental Economics, SME Finance and Risk Attitudes. She uses Economics Experiments to analyze behavior and financial decisions of economic agents under risk and ambiguity. Her recent work studies measures that improve the financing of entrepreneurial projects led by women and the integration of women in competitive environments such as science, industry or politics.