Biography
Cesario Mateus is a Full Professor of Finance and Director of MSMEs and Family Businesses Research Lab at Aalborg University Business School, Denmark. He joined Aalborg University in 2019. Prior he worked at different universities in various countries, these include Bayes Business School (formerly Cass Business School), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, University of Melbourne, Catholic University of Lisbon, University of Greenwich, University of Southampton, Aston Business School, among others. He also worked for private and public companies (e.g. Portuguese Securities and Exchange Commission, Banco Comercial Portugues, Ocidental Insurance Company, Aldersgate Investment Managers). He has served as a member of the board of Directors at the Asian Finance Association. He is an active member of professional associations (e.g. American Finance Association, Financial Management Association, Royal Economic Society), an Associate Editor of the Investment Analysts Journal, and an editorial board member for journals such as The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance, Journal of Banking Regulation, Cogent Economics & Finance among others. His research interests include corporate finance issues (capital structure, cash holdings, taxation, right issues, etc.), corporate governance (regulation, supervisory boards, and banks' risk-taking) and asset management (mutual funds' performance and style investments). He has published over 50 refereed research papers in high-quality international journals, such as the European Journal of Finance, the International Review of Financial Analysis, the Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, the Journal of International Economic Law and the International Journal of Finance and Economics, among others.