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Florinda Silva

Ph.D in Business Administration - Finance University of Minho
fsilva@eeg.uminho.pt

Campus de Gualtar - Edificio 8 - 3.14

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Florinda Silva is an associate professor of finance at the Management Department of the School of Economics, Management, and Political Science. Her research interests focus on portfolio performance evaluation, ESG investing, and green finance. Previous research has been published in International journals such as Economics Letters, Research in International Business and Finance, Business & Society, Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, Ecological Economics, European Financial Management, Financial Markets and Portfolio Management, International Journal of Finance & Economics, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Cleaner Production, and Quantitative Finance.

 

 

Areas of interest

Fund Performance Evaluation
Socially Responsible Investments
Bond Markets.

Publications

Badía, G , Cortez, M C , & Silva, F (2024)

Do investors benefit from investing in stocks of green bond issuers?

Economics Letters, 242, 111859 DOI
Brito-Ramos, S , Cortez, M C , & Silva, F (2024) Do sustainability signals diverge? An analysis of labeling schemes for socially responsible investments Business & Society, 63(6), 1380-1425 DOI
Silva, F , Ferreira, A , & Cortez, M C (2024)

The performance of green bond portfolios under climate uncertainty: A comparative analysis with conventional and black bond portfolios

Research in International Business and Finance, 70 DOI
Cortez, M C , Andrade, N , & Silva, F (2022)

The environmental and financial performance of green energy investments: European evidence

Ecological Economics, 197, 107427 DOI
Abadi, R T , & Silva, F (2022)

Do Islamic fundamental weighted indices outperform their conventional counterparts? An empirical investigation during the crises in the MENA region

Eurasian Economic Review, 12(2), 241-266 DOI
Adcock, C , Areal, N , Cortez, M C , Oliveira, B , & Silva, F (2020)

Does the choice of fund performance measure matter?

Investment Analysts Journal, 49(1), 53–77 DOI
Abadi, R , & Silva, F (2019)

Common risk factors in stock returns in the mena region

Asian Journal of Business and Accounting, 12(2), 29–60 DOI
Pereira, P , Cortez, M C , & Silva, F (2019)

Socially responsible investing and the performance of Eurozone corporate bond portfolios

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 26, 1407–1422 DOI
Abadi, R , & Silva, F (2019)

Do Fundamental Portfolios Outperform in the MENA Equity Markets?

International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management, 12(2), 265–281 DOI
Leite, C , Cortez, M C , Silva, F , & Adcock, C (2018)

The performance of socially responsible equity mutual funds: Evidence from Sweden

Business Ethics, 27(2), 108–126 DOI
Silva, F , & Cortez, M C (2016)

The performance of US and European green funds in different market conditions

Journal of Cleaner Production, 135, 558–566 DOI
Areal, N , Cortez, M C , & Silva, F (2013)

The conditional performance of US mutual funds over different market regimes: Do different types of ethical screens matter?

Financial Markets and Portfolio Management, 27(4), 397–429 DOI
Cortez, M C , Silva, F , & Areal, N M P C (2012)

Socially responsible investing in the global market: The performance of US and European funds

International Journal of Finance and Economics, 17(3), 254–271 DOI
Adcock, C J , Cortez, M C , Armada, M J R , & Silva, F (2012)

Time varying betas and the unconditional distribution of asset returns

Quantitative Finance, 12(6), 951–967 DOI
Cortez, M C , Silva, F , & Areal, N (2009)

The performance of european socially responsible funds

Journal of Business Ethics, 87, 573–588 DOI
Silva, F , Cortez, M C , & Armada, M R (2003)

Conditioning Information and European Bond Fund Performance

European Financial Management, 9(2), 201–230 DOI
Oliveira, I M M , Silva, F C C C , & da Silva Martins, F V (2016)

The (un)conditional relation risk factors market, size and value: evidence from five European countries

Revista De Gestao, Financas E Contabilidade, 6(3), 177-196 DOI
Adcock, C , Areal, N , Armada, M , Cortez, M C , Oliveira, B , & Silva, F (2012)

Tests of the Correlation between Portfolio Performance Measures

Journal of Financial Transformation, 35, 123–132 DOI
Silva, F , Cortez, M C , & Armada, M J R (2005)

The persistence of European bond fund performance: Does conditioning information matter?

International Journal of Business, 4(10), 341–361 DOI
Silva, F , Cortez, M C , & Armada, M R (2004)

Bond return predictability: The European market

International Journal of Finance, 16(3), 3083–3114 DOI
Cortez, M C , & Silva, F (2002)

Conditioning information on portfolio performance evaluation: a reexamination of performance persistence in the portuguese mutual fund market

Finance India, 16(4), 1393–1408 DOI

Projects

Certificações/rótulos de sustentabilidade na Europa: entidades governmentais versus entidades privadas

Funding: Institut Louis Bachelier

Duration: 2022-01-14 - 2023-01-14

Entidades governamentais versus atores privados em labelling de sustentabilidade na União Europeia

Funding: Labex MME-DII

Duration: 2021-12-01 - 2023-02-28

Teaching

Análise e Planeamento Financeiro Licenciatura
Análise Financeira Mestrado
Caso de Gestão Licenciatura
Finanças Internacionais Mestrado
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