Mireia Gine

Mireia Giné is Associate Professor at the Financial Management Department of IESE. She has a BA in Economics and Master in Economics from Pompeu Fabra University. She received her doctorate from the University of Barcelona after several years at MIT and the University of Pennsylvania.

Mireia specializes in corporate governance, executive compensation, mergers and acquisitions. Currently, she investigates how common ownership of institutional shareholders impacts the corporate decisions of companies in their portfolio. Her research has been published in the Journal of Finance, Review of Finance, Harvard Business Review among other academic journals, as well as in various media (Financial Times, The Economist, Bloomberg, BBC). She has received several international prizes such as the Brattle Prize and has presented her research at prestigious universities and congresses in finance (WFA, EFA, AFA, NBER, etc.).

Prior to joining IESE, she worked for more than a decade at The Wharton School as director of Research at Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS), a global financial reference platform serving more than 450 academic and financial institutions. Mireia joined the start-up phase and currently she directs the group’s international operations.

Areas of interest

• Corporate governance, Shareholder Activism and M&A
• Executive compensation
• Empirical corporate finance
• Fintech

Work experience

• The Wharton School
  • Director of International Initiatives, Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS)
  • Director of Research -- Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS)
• IESE Business School
  • Associate Professor
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Finance
• Banco Sabadell Board Member
• World Economic Forum Expert Network – Corporate Governance
• European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) Research Fellow
• SABADELL ASSET MANAGEMENT SA SOCIEDAD GESTORA DE INSTITUCIONES DE INVERSION COLECTIVA Board Member
• IESE Business School Policy Reseach Fellow, Public-Private Sector Research Center
• ESADE Visiting Lecturer, Department of Finance
• Spanish National Team Modern Pentathlon Athlete

Education

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology Visiting Scholar
• University of Pennsylvania Visiting Scholar
• The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Visiting Scholar FMG Financial Markets Group
• New York University Visting Scholar Finance
• Universitat de Barcelona PhD Facultad de Economía y Empresa
• Universitat Pompeu Fabra Master of Science - MS Economics
• Universitat Pompeu Fabra Bachelor of Arts - BA Economics

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

Beyond the Target: M&A Decisions and Rival Ownership J. Azar, M. Antón, M. Giné, L. Lin Journal of Financial Economics, Forthcoming

The Demand for AI Skills in the Labor Market L. Alekseeva, J. Azar, M. Giné, S. Samila, B. Taska Labour Economics, May 2021 (Special Issue: Technology and the Labour Market)

Price and Probability: Decomposing the Takeover Effects of Anti-Takeover Provisions V. Cuñat, M. Giné, M. Guadalupe Journal of Finance, April 2020

Does Common Ownership Increase the Incentives for Mergers and Acquisitions? J. Azar, M. Antón, L. Lin Competition Policy International, May, 2019

Governance Mechanisms and Effective Activism: Evidence from Shareholder Proposals on Poison Pills M. Giné, R. Moussawi, J. Sedunov Journal of Empirical Finance 43, 2017

Executive Gender Pay Gaps: The Roles of Female Risk Aversion and Board Representation ME. Carter, F. Franco, M. Giné Contemporary Accounting Review 34(2), 2017 Media coverage: CNN, BBC interview (min 19.00)

Say Pays! Shareholder Voice and Firm Performance V. Cuñat, M. Giné, M. Guadalupe Review of Finance 20(5), 2015

Corporate Governance and Value: Evidence from “Close Calls” on Shareholder Governance Proposals V. Cuñat, M. Giné, M. Guadalupe Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 25(1), 2013

The Vote is Cast: The Effect of Corporate Governance on Shareholder Value V. Cuñat, M. Giné, M. Guadalupe Journal of Finance 67(5), 2012 The Brattle Group Prize in Corporate Finance Best Paper Award, Financial Management Association Runner-up Prize, Istanbul Stock Exchange Competition

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Index Funds Are Fueling Out-of-Whack CEO Pay Packages M. Antón, F. Ederer, M. Giné, M. Schmalz Harvard Business Review, October 18, 2016.

Public Corporate Governance of State-owned Enterprises: Evidence from the Spanish Banking Industry T. Ysa, M. Giné, M. Esteve, V. Sierra Public Money and Management 32(4), 2012