Courses

Finance I (EMBA/DFS)
Finance I (MLF)
Financial Analysis (UG)
Finance (UG)

Expertise

Capital Markets and Investments
Household Finance

Overview

Jose Vicente Martinez is a University Lecturer in Finance and Fellow of Green Templeton College. Martinez obtained his PhD in Finance from Columbia Business School. He also holds a BSc in Economics from Universidad Nacional de Rosario, and a MA in Economics from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. He has been a visiting researcher at the Institute for Financial Research in Stockholm, Sweden. Before beginning his doctoral studies he worked for three years as a business analyst in Prudential Financial’s Buenos Aires office.

Research interests

Jose Vicente Martinez specializes in capital markets, investments and investor behaviour. In his research, he has explored the role of information sellers in financial markets and examined whether investors are able to profit from the investment advice contained in stock recommendations. Martinez is currently studying the differences exhibited by pension and mutual fund investors, and working on understanding how capable individuals are at managing their retirement assets.

Journal articles

"Information Misweighting and the Cross-Section of Stock Recommendations" Journal of Financial Markets, 2011, vol. 14, pp. 515-539.

"Is it Punishment? Sovereign Defaults and the Decline in Trade" (joint with Guido Sandleris), Journal of International Money and Finance, 2011, vol. 30, pp. 909-930.

Working papers

Individual Investor Activity and Performance (2011) (joint with Magnus Dahlquist and Paul Soderlind).

Brokerage-Firm Trading and Profits around Recommendation Revision Dates (2012) (joint with Anders Anderson)

Investor Inattention: A Hidden Cost of Choice in Pension Plans? (2010) (joint with Magnus Dahlquist).

Saving for Retirement: Optimal Decisions vs. Simple Heuristics (2006)