Jose Vicente Martinez

Associate Professor

Finance

Education

Ph.D., Columbia University

M.Phil., Columbia University

M.Sc., Universidad Torcuato Di Tella

B.Sc., Universidad Nacional de Rosario

Areas of Expertise

Capital markets and investments

Institutional asset management

Investor behavior

Biography

Jose Vicente Martinez joined UConn after working as a university lecturer and senior research fellow in finance at Said Business School, University of Oxford (United Kingdom). He earned a Ph.D. in finance from the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University and later completed a research fellowship at the Institute for Financial Research in Stockholm (Sweden). Dr. Martinez has been a research affiliate of the Swedish House of Finance, a member of the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance and a Governing Body Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford. Earlier in his career he worked as a business analyst in Prudential Financial’s Buenos Aires office. His areas of expertise include capital markets and investments, institutional asset management, investor behavior, and household finance.

Publications

Virtual Reality? Investment Consultants’ Claims About Their Own Performance (joint with Gordon Cookson, Tim Jenkinson and Howard Jones), Management Science, 2022, vol. 68, pp. 8301-8318.
Best buys and own brands: Investment platforms’ recommendations of mutual funds (joint with Gordon Cookson, Tim Jenkinson and Howard Jones), Review of Financial Studies, 2021, vol. 34, pp. 227-263.
Measuring the added value of stock recommendations (joint with Anders Anderson and Howard Jones) , Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2020, vol. 55, pp. 1915-1945.
Individual investor activity and performance (joint with Magnus Dahlquist and Paul Soderlind), Review of Financial Studies, 2017, vol. 30, pp. 866-899.
Institutional investor expectations, manager performance, and fund flows (joint with Howard Jones), Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2017, vol. 52, pp. 2755-2777.
Pi cking winners? Investment consultants’ recommendations of fund managers (joint with Tim Jenkinson and Howard Jones), Journal of Finance, 2016, vol. 71, pp. 2333-2370.
Investor inattention: A hidden cost of choice in pension plans? (joint with Magnus Dahlquist), European Financial Management, 2015, vol. 21, pp. 1-19.
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.