Maria Alberta Couto Cruz de Oliveira Santos (691E-C5C6-E471)

Curriculum Vitae

Maria Alberta Couto Cruz de Oliveira Santos

Maria Alberta Oliveira has obtained a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Coimbra (2011). Her thesis has focused on business innovation in EU regions. She is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Maia. She conducts research both on the regional and systemic approaches to innovation, and on the financial and institutional challenges posed to business innovation. She is also actively publishing in finance, particularly macro-financial linkages, and in efficiency analysis (mostly non-parametric methods). Her work has appeared in several prestigious scientific journals. Maria Alberta Oliveira is affiliated with the Research Unit in Business Sciences (NECE) from the University of Beira interior, and with UNICES-UMaia. As an academic, she has also been responsible for the MSc in Management, at the Department of Business Sciences, University of Maia, from 2019 to 2023.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Maria Alberta Couto Cruz de Oliveira Santos

Citation names

Oliveira, Maria Alberta
Oliveira, M. A.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 691E-C5C6-E471
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2918-1354

Knowledge fields

Social Sciences - Economics and Business - Economics

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
French	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)
German	Intermediate (B1)	Advanced (C1)	Intermediate (B1)	Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2011/05/17 Concluded	Economia (Doutoramento) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal "Território e Inovação: Uma Aplicação às Regiões Europeias" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Aprovada com distinção e louvor, por unanimidade
2004/04/28 Concluded	Economia (Mestrado) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Economia, Portugal "Análise da Eficiência Técnica do Ensino Secundário em Portugal: Aplicação das Metodologias FDH e Single Bootstrapping" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Muito Bom
1999/07 Concluded	Economia (Licenciatura) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Economia, Portugal	14 valores

Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2021/04/14 - Current	Associate Professor (University Teacher)	Instituto Universitário da Maia, Portugal

2011/05/18 - 2021/04/13	Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Instituto Universitário da Maia, Portugal

2004/04/29 - 2011/05/17	Assistant (University Teacher)	Instituto Universitário da Maia, Portugal

1999/10/01 - 2004/04/28	Trainee Assistant (University Teacher)	Instituto Universitário da Maia, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2013/10/16 - Current	Investigadora	Universidade da Beira Interior Núcleo de Estudos em Ciências Empresariais, Portugal

Projects

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2023/03/01 - 2024/08/31	The Diagnosis Network App (DiNA): Development of a computational system for the diagnosis of DSM-5 mental disorders based on complex networks 2022.07384.PTDC Researcher Maiêutica Cooperativa de Ensino Superior CRL, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2015 - 2016	STOP Depression: Stepped care treatments and digital solutions for depression and suicide prevention in primary care MFEEE 2019-2014/PT06 Researcher	EEA Grants Concluded
2011 - 2013	European Marketing and Innovation Centers - EMIC 518185-LLP-1-2011- 1-PT-ERASMUS-ECUE Grant Agreement 2011- 3841/001-001 Researcher	Concluded
2007 - 2008	Social welfare, immigrant population and labour market exclusion IME/ECO/81882/2006 Researcher	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Conference paper

Oliveira, M. A.; Santos, C. (B21B-EE12-A3EC). "Sovereign CDS Contagion in the European Union: A Multivariate GARCH-in-Variables Analysis of Volatility Spill-Overs". Paper presented in 27th International Business Research Conference, 2014.
Published
Oliveira, M. A.; Santos, C. (B21B-EE12-A3EC). "An Overlapping Generations Model of the Savings Rate Decline: The Case of Portugal". Paper presented in World Business and Social Science Research Conference, 2013.
Published
Oliveira, Maria Alberta; Santos, Carlos; Coelho, João. "The Budgeting of Portuguese Public Museums: A Dynamic Panel Data Analysis". Paper presented in World Business and Economics Research Conference, Auckland, 2012.
Published • 10.2139/ssrn.2185135

Journal article

Viviana Costa; Maria Alberta Oliveira; Carlos Santos. "Assessing the Pandemic Aviation Crisis: Speculative Behavior, Government Bail Outs, and Accommodative Monetary Policy". Economies (2024): https://doi.org/10.3390/economies12100258.
10.3390/economies12100258
Oliveira, Maria Alberta; Santos, Carlos. "Unveiling trading patterns: iTraxx Europe financials from the great financial crisis to ECB monetary easing". Banks and Bank Systems 17 3 (2022): 188-200. http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/bbs.17(3).2022.16.
Published • 10.21511/bbs.17(3).2022.16
Maria Alberta Oliveira; Carlos Santos. "Determinants of credit default swaps implied ratings during the crisis: was sovereign risk mispriced?". Investment Management and Financial Innovations 15 3 (2018): 1-14. https://doi.org/10.21511/imfi.15(3).2018.01.
10.21511/imfi.15(3).2018.01
Maria Alberta Oliveira; Carlos Santos. "A volatility-based approach to gold as a safe haven: can it explain the abnormalities in gold returns during periods of extreme financial adversity?". Investment Management and Financial Innovations 13 3 (2016): 203-214. https://doi.org/10.21511/imfi.13(3-1).2016.06.
10.21511/imfi.13(3-1).2016.06
Oliveira, M.A.; Santos, C.. "Market exuberance in sovereign credit default swaps: Assessing the EU regulatory framework and trading profit opportunities". Investment Management and Financial Innovations 12 4 (2015): 70-80. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84955438772&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
Oliveira, Maria Alberta; Santos, Carlos; Coelho, João. "The Budgeting of Portuguese Public Museums: A Dynamic Panel Data Analysis". World Review of Business Research 3 3 (2013): 145-156. http://www.wrbrpapers.com/static/documents/July/2013/10.%20Carlos.pdf.
Published
Oliveira, Maria Alberta; Santos, Carlos. "Looking for a Change Point in French Monetary Policy in the Early Eighties". Applied Economics Letters 17 4 (2010): 387-392. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13504850701735898.
Published • 10.1080/13504850701735898
Oliveira, Maria Alberta; Santos, Carlos. "Assessing French Inflation Persistence with Impulse Saturation Break Tests and Automatic General-To-Specific Modeling". Applied Economics 42 12 (2010): 1577-1589. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00036840701721521.
Published • 10.1080/00036840701721521
Oliveira, Maria Alberta; Santos, Carlos. "Modelling the German Yield Curve and Testing the Lucas Critique, 1975-2001". Applied Econometrics and International Development 7 1 (2007): 51-62. http://www.usc.es/~economet/eaa.htm.
Published
Oliveira, Maria Alberta; Santos, Carlos. "Assessing School Efficiency in Portugal using FDH and bootstrapping". Applied Economics 37 8 (2005): 957-968. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00036840500061095.
Published • 10.1080/00036840500061095

Distinctions

Award

2014	Best Paper Award in Banking and Finance