Areas of research

  • Asset Pricing / Financial Economics
  • High-frequency (algorithmic) trading
  • Agent-based Finance
  • Experimental Finance

Areas of teaching

  • Quantitative methods for finance
  • Financial Risk Management
  • Portfolio Management
  • Corporate Finance

Grants and awards

2023

Research grant for the research project entitled “Algorithmic arbitrage in experimental asset markets”
Institut Europlace de Finance (EIF), Paris, France

2016

Participant to ANR ORA-Plus project: “Behavioral and Experimental Analyses on Macro-finance (BEAM)”. PI: Nobuyuki Hanaki, Professor at University of Nice, Sophia-Antipolis and GREDEG.
Agence Nationale de Recherche (ANR), Paris, France

2015

Participant to H2020 European research project: “Distributed Global Financial Systems for Society (DOLFINS)”. PI: Stefano Battiston, University of Zurich
Commission européenne, Bruxelles, Belgium

Publications from the last 5 years

Articles

JACOB LEAL, C. and HANAKI, N. (2024). Algorithmic trading, what if it is just an illusion? Evidence from experimental asset markets. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 112, pp. 102240.

HAWKINS, M.A., BIGA-DIAMBEIDOU, M. and JACOB LEAL, C. (2023). Facilitating knowledge creation and team performance through behavioral integration and skill-based identity. Industry and Higher Education, 37(5), pp. 619-633.

Conferences and other contributions

JACOB LEAL, C. and HANAKI, N. (2024). Algorithmic trading, what if it is just an illusion? Evidence from experimental financial markets. In: 8th International Workshop on “Financial Markets and Nonlinear Dynamics” (FMND). Paris.

JACOB LEAL, C. and HANAKI, N. (2021). When does the information about the presence of manipulators matter? Evidence from experimental asset markets. In: 5th Annual Workshop on Economic Science with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents (WEHIA). Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano.

JACOB LEAL, C. and HANAKI, N. (2021). When does the information about the presence of manipulators matter? Evidence from experimental asset markets”. In: 11th International Conference of the French Association of Experimental Economics (ASFEE). Burgundy School of Business, Dijon.