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Viviana Paulina Fernandez Maturana

Profesora Titular

Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez

Santiago, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


1. Econometría financiera; 2. Finanzas internacionales; 3. Finanzas corporativas, 4. Economía de los minerales y recursos naturales

Educación

  •  Economía, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-BERKELEY. Estados Unidos, 1997
  •  Economía, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 1991
  •  Ingeniero comercial mención economía, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 1991

Experiencia Académica

  •   Profesora Asociada Full Time

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

    Ingeniería

    Santiago, Chile

    2009 - 2011

  •   Profesora Asociada Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

    Ingeniería

    Santiago, Chile

    2000 - 2009

  •   Profesora Titular Full Time

    Universidad Adolfo Ibánez

    Santiago, Chile

    2009 - At present

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Economist Full Time

    Ministry of Economic Affairs

    Santiago, Chile

    1992 - 1993

Formación de Capital Humano


Dirección de tesis desde 2007
- -Sebastián Fuentes Figueroa. "Determinantes de la propiedad de las AFP en empresas chilenas".
Magíster en Economía Aplicada, Dpto. de Ingeniería Civil Industrial de la Universidad de Chile,
2012.
- - Manuel León Ross "Acceso a terrenos para la Minería: Análisis del Sistema de Concesiones de
Propiedades Mineras en Chile". Magíster en Ingeniería. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
2012.
- - Ian Guiloff Scarneo, "Optimizacion de la Liquidez de un Fondo Mutuo del Money Market".
Magíster en Gestión de Operaciones, Dpto. de Ingeniería Civil Industrial de la Universidad de
Chile, 2010.
- - Fernando Acosta Barriga, "Impacto de Variables Macroeconomicas en el Ciclo de Precios de
Commodities Minerales". Magíster en Economia Aplicada/Magíster en Minería, Dptos. Ingeniería
Civil Industrial/Civil en Minas, Universidad de Chile. 2009.
- - Ercos Valdivieso Contreras. "Analisis del Retorno Esperado de Acciones Chilenas:
Descomposicion de Varianzas". Magíster en Economía Aplicada, Dpto. de Ingeniería Civil
Industrial de la Universidad de Chile, 2009.
- - Gonzalo Valdés González . "Estimacion de Series con Memoria Larga: Estudio Via Simulacion
de Montecarlo y Aplicacion a Series Financieras". Magíster en Economía Aplicada, Dpto. de
Ingeniería Civil Industrial de la Universidad de Chile, 2009.
- - Sergio Díaz Varela. "Efectos de la integración comercial sobre el tipo de cambio real, validación
de un modelo teórico". Magíster en Economía Aplicada, Dpto. de Ingeniería Civil Industrial de la
Universidad de Chile, 2007.


Difusión y Transferencia


Proyectos de investigación

1. “Trends in long-term consumption and production of base metals.” FONDECYT Grant No. 1170037, years 2017-2019. (Principal investigator)
2. “Issues in commodity prices.” FONDECYT Grant No. 1130003, years 2013-2015. (Principal investigator).
3. “Volatility and pension funds' holdings: Implications for the Chilean financial market”. FONDECYT Grant No. 1090005, years 2009-2011. (Principal investigator).
4. "Structural breakpoints in volatility and portfolio management: Lessons for portfolio diversification". SOC 06/01-2 Grant, years 2006-2008. Research Department, University of Chile. (Principal investigator).
5. “Investment strategy and capital structure of firms in emerging economies”. FONDECYT Grant No. 1070762, years 2007-2009. (Principal investigator).
6. “International Transmission of Asset Returns and Volatility”. FONDECYT Grant No. 1050486, years 2005-2007. (Principal investigator).
7. "The credit channel in Chile". FONDECYT Grant No. 1030887, years 2003-2004. (Principal investigator).
8. "The market of hedging assets in Chile", Grant No. SOC-01/19-2, years 2001-2003. Research Department, University of Chile. (Principal investigator)
9. "Risk Premium of the Term Structure: Time-Varying? Business-Cycle Dependent?: Evidence for Chile". FONDECYT Grant No. 1010512, years 2001-2002. (Principal investigator).


Premios y Distinciones

  •   Premio Raúl Iver

    Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

    Chile, 1991

    Mejor egresada de la carrera de ingeniería comercial, especialidad de economía

  •   Scholarship

    AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT-USA

    Estados Unidos, 1993

    Scholarship to pursue doctoral studies during 1993-1997.

  •   Thomas Fetherston special prize

    UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN, TRINITY COLLEGE

    Irlanda, 2006

    Best paper at INFINITI Conference


 

Article (53)

Innovation in the global mining sector and the case of Chile
The predictive power of convenience yields
Assessing cycles of mine production and prices of industrial metals
Innovation and SME finance: Evidence from developing countries
Strategic management in Latin America: Challenges in a changing world
Copper mining in Chile and its regional employment linkages
Future directions in international financial integration research - A crowdsourced perspective
Mineral commodity consumption and intensity of use re-assessed
Price and income elasticity of demand for mineral commodities
A historical perspective of the informational content of commodity futures
Rare-earth elements market: A historical and financial perspective
Some facts on the platinum-group elements
The finance of innovation in Latin America
Further evidence on the relationship between spot and futures prices
Futures markets and fundamentals of base metals
Spot and futures markets linkages: Does contango differ from backwardation?
Spot and Futures Markets Linkages: Does Contango Differ from Backwardation?
Commodity price excess co-movement from a historical perspective: 1900-2010
Commodity price excess co-movement from a historical perspective: 1900-2010
Influence in commodity markets: Measuring co-movement globally
Commodities and Macroeconomic Factors: Unconditional Volatility Measures
Linear and non-linear causality between price indices and commodity prices
Stock volatility and pension funds under an individual capitalization-based system
Stock volatility and pension funds under an individual capitalization-based system
Profitability of Chile's Defined-Contribution-Based Pension System During the Multifund Era
Trends in real commodity prices: How real is real?
Alternative Estimators of Long-Range Dependence
Spatial linkages in international financial markets
The Driving Factors of Firm Investment: Latin American Evidence
Asymmetrical individual return herding
Commodity futures and market efficiency: A fractional integrated approach
The behavior of stock returns in the mining industry following the Iraq war
Copula-based measures of dependence structure in assets returns
Multi-period hedge ratios for a multi-asset portfolio when accounting for returns co-movement
The war on terror and its impact on the long-term volatility of financial markets
A postcard from the past: The behavior of US stock markets during 1871-1938
Extreme-value dependence: An application to exchange rate markets
Portfolio management under sudden changes in volatility and heterogeneous investment horizons
Stock market turmoil - Worldwide effects of Middle East conflicts
Wavelet- and SVM-based forecasts: An analysis of the US metal and materials manufacturing industry
Does domestic cooperation lead to business-cycle convergence and financial linkages?
Emerging derivatives markets - The case of Chile
Extremal dependence in European capital markets
Specification tests for a parsimonious random-effects model
The CAPM and value at risk at different time-scales
The impact of major global events on volatility shifts: Evidence from the Asian crisis and 9/11
Monetary policy and the banking sector in chile
Risk management under extreme events
The international CAPM and a wavelet-based decomposition of value at risk
Time-scale decomposition of price transmission in international markets
Interest rate risk in an emerging economy
What determines market development? Lessons from Latin American derivatives markets with an emphasis on Chile
A nonparametric approach to model the term structure of interest rates: The case of Chile

EditorialMaterial (1)

Special Issue: Asset Pricing in Emerging Markets Introduction

Proyecto (9)

TRENDS IN LONG-TERM CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION OF BASE METALS
ISSUES IN COMMODITY PRICES
VOLATILITY AND PENSION FUNDS' HOLDINGS=> IMPLICATIONS FOR THE CHILEAN FINANCIAL MARKET
INVESTMENT STRATEGY AND CAPITAL STRUCTURE OF FIRMS IN EMERGING ECONOMIES
Structural breakpoints in volatility and portfolio management=> Lessons for portfolio diversification
INTERNATIONAL TRANSMISSION OF ASSETS RETURNS AND VOLATILITY.
EL CANAL DEL CREDITO BANCARIO EN CHILE
Hedging markets in Chile
RISK-PREMIUM OF THE TERM STRUCTURE=> TIME-VARYING?, BUSINESS-CYCLE DEPENDENT?=> EVIDENCE FOR CHILE
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Viviana Fernandez

Profesora Titular

Escuela de Negocios

Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez

Santiago, Chile

1
Constanza Bianchi

Profesor Titular

UNIVERSIDAD ADOLFO IBANEZ

Chile

1
Virginia Fernández

UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE, FACULTAD DE MEDICINA, ICBM, PROGRAMA DE FARMACOLOGÌA

Santiago, Chile

1
Santiago Mingo

Associate Professor

Industrial and Systems Engineering Department

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile