Claudia Custodio

Imperial College London

Associate Professor of Finance

South Kensington Campus

Exhibition Road

London, Greater London SW7 2AZ

United Kingdom

Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

London

United Kingdom

European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)

Research Associate

c/o the Royal Academies of Belgium

Rue Ducale 1 Hertogsstraat

1000 Brussels

Belgium

  • Imperial College London

  • Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

  • European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)

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Do General Managerial Skills Spur Innovation?

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Do General Managerial Skills Spur Innovation?

ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 376/2013, Darden Business School Working Paper No. 2289701
Number of pages: 80 Posted: 06 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 02 Oct 2017
Claudia Custodio, Miguel A. Ferreira and Pedro Matos
Imperial College London, Nova School of Business and Economics and University of Virginia - Darden School of Business
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General human capital, Innovation, Patents, R&D, Risk taking

Do General Managerial Skills Spur Innovation?

Management Science Forthcoming, Darden Business School Working Paper No. 3151444
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 02 Apr 2018
Claudia Custodio, Miguel A. Ferreira and Pedro Matos
Imperial College London, Nova School of Business and Economics and University of Virginia - Darden School of Business
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General human capital, Innovation, Patents, R&D, Risk taking

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Cash Holdings and Business Conditions

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 25 Oct 2004
Miguel A. Ferreira, Claudia Custodio and Clara C. Raposo
Nova School of Business and Economics, Imperial College London and ISEG Lisbon School of Economics & Management
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Cash holdings, Liquidity, Business conditions

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Mergers and Acquisitions Accounting and the Diversification Discount

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming, AFA 2011 Denver Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 22 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 08 May 2013
Claudia Custodio
Imperial College London
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Diversification discount, M&A Accounting, Accounting Goodwill, Excess value, Tobin's q

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Why Are U.S. Firms Using More Short-Term Debt?

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Why Are U.S. Firms Using More Short-Term Debt?

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 18 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 19 Jun 2012
Claudia Custodio, Miguel A. Ferreira and Luis Laureano
Imperial College London, Nova School of Business and Economics and ISCTE - Lisbon University Institute - School of Business
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Corporate debt maturity, Information asymmetry, Agency costs, New listings, Supply effects

Why are U.S. Firms Using More Short-Term Debt?

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 19 Jun 2012
Claudia Custodio, Miguel A. Ferreira and Luis Laureano
Imperial College London, Nova School of Business and Economics and ISCTE - Lisbon University Institute - School of Business
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corporate debt maturity, information asymmetry, agency costs, new listings, supply effects

Why are U.S. Firms Using More Short-Term Debt?

International Conference of the French Finance Association (AFFI), May 2011
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 08 May 2011
Miguel A. Ferreira, Luis Laureano and Claudia Custodio
New University of Lisbon - Nova School of Business and Economics, ISCTE - Lisbon University Institute - School of Business and Imperial College London
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Capital structure, Debt maturity, Information asymmetry, Agency costs

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Financial Expert CEOs: CEO’s Work Experience and Firm’s Financial Policies

Number of pages: 65 Posted: 18 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 05 Dec 2016
Claudia Custodio and Daniel Metzger
Imperial College London and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)
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CEO-firm matching, CEOs characteristics, financial expertise, cash holdings, capital structure

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Generalists versus Specialists: Lifetime Work Experience and CEO Pay

AFA 2012 Chicago Meetings Paper, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Finance Working Paper No. 333/2012
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 15 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 23 Oct 2018
Claudia Custodio, Miguel A. Ferreira and Pedro Matos
Imperial College London, Nova School of Business and Economics and University of Virginia - Darden School of Business
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Executive Compensation, Market for Executives, Human Capital

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How do CEOs Matter? The Effect of Industry Expertise on Acquisition Returns

Number of pages: 67 Posted: 24 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 01 Jun 2013
Claudia Custodio and Daniel Metzger
Imperial College London and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)
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CEO characteristics, CEO experience, bargaining ability, mergers and acquisitions

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Generalists Versus Specialists: Lifetime Work Experience and CEO Pay

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming, Darden Business School Working Paper No. 2116525
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 26 Jul 2012
Claudia Custodio, Miguel A. Ferreira and Pedro Matos
Imperial College London, Nova School of Business and Economics and University of Virginia - Darden School of Business
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Executive compensation, Market for executives, Human capital

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Are CEOs More Likely to Be First-Borns?

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Are CEOs More Likely to Be First-Borns?

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 05 Sep 2017 Last Revised: 21 May 2020
Claudia Custodio and Stephan Siegel
Imperial College London and University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business
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CEO, first born, birth order, family firm, rearing environment, upbringing

Are CEOS More Likely to Be First-Borns?

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP12613
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 22 Jan 2018
Claudia Custodio and Stephan Siegel
Imperial College London and University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business
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birth order, CEO, family firm, first born, rearing environment, upbringing

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The Impact of Financial Education of Executives on Financial Practices of Medium and Large Enterprises

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The Impact of Financial Education of Executives on Financial Practices of Medium and Large Enterprises

Swedish House of Finance Research Paper No. 20-29
Number of pages: 83 Posted: 18 Sep 2019 Last Revised: 20 Jul 2021
Claudia Custodio, Diogo Mendes and Daniel Metzger
Imperial College London, Stockholm School of Economics and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)
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Financial Literacy, Financial Education, RCT, Financing Constraints, CEOs

The Impact of Financial Education of Managers on Medium and Large Enterprises - a Randomized Controlled Trial in Mozambique

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15294
Number of pages: 85 Posted: 22 Sep 2020
Claudia Custodio, Diogo Mendes and Daniel Metzger
Imperial College London, Stockholm School of Economics and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)
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CEOs, Financial Education, financial literacy, Financing constraints, RCT

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Economic Impact of Climate Change

Number of pages: 65 Posted: 09 Dec 2020 Last Revised: 12 Aug 2021
Claudia Custodio, Miguel A. Ferreira, Emilia Garcia-Appendini and Adrian Lam
Imperial College London, Nova School of Business and Economics, University of Zurich - Department of Banking and Finance and Imperial College London
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Climate change, Climate finance, Economic costs, Firm sales, Production networks, Productivity, Financial constraints

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CEO Compensation and Real Estate Prices: Pay for Luck and Responses to Luck

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 12 Aug 2015 Last Revised: 11 Jan 2018
Benjamin Bennett, Claudia Custodio and Dragana Cvijanovic
Tulane University - A.B. Freeman School of Business, Imperial College London and Cornell SC Johnson College of Business
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CEO compensation; pay for luck; real estate shocks

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CEO Compensation and Real Estate Prices: Pay for Luck or Pay for Action?

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 08 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 15 Jul 2021
Ana M. Albuquerque, Benjamin Bennett, Claudia Custodio and Dragana Cvijanovic
Boston University - Questrom School of Business, Tulane University - A.B. Freeman School of Business, Imperial College London and Cornell SC Johnson College of Business
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pay for luck; real estate prices; executive compensation; accounting returns

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Opioid Crisis and Real Estate Prices

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Opioid Crisis and Real Estate Prices

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 12 Nov 2020 Last Revised: 15 Jun 2021
Claudia Custodio, Dragana Cvijanovic and Moritz Wiedemann
Imperial College London, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business and Imperial College London
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Opioid crisis, real estate prices, health economics

Opioid Crisis and Real Estate Prices

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP16272
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 14 Jul 2021
Claudia Custodio, Dragana Cvijanovic and Moritz Wiedemann
Imperial College London, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business and Imperial College London
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The Economic Costs of Financial Distress

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The Economic Costs of Financial Distress

Number of pages: 89 Posted: 08 Jan 2019 Last Revised: 07 May 2021
Claudia Custodio, Miguel A. Ferreira and Emilia Garcia-Appendini
Imperial College London, Nova School of Business and Economics and University of Zurich - Department of Banking and Finance
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Financial Distress, Economic Distress, Real Estate Shocks, Supply Chain

The Economic Costs of Financial Distress

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP13862
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 02 Aug 2019
Claudia Custodio, Miguel A. Ferreira and Emilia Garcia-Appendini
Imperial College London, Nova School of Business and Economics and University of Zurich - Department of Banking and Finance
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Economic distress, financial distress, Real estate prices, Supply Chain

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Information Frictions and Firm Take Up of Government Support: A Randomised Controlled Experiment

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Information Frictions and Firm Take Up of Government Support: A Randomised Controlled Experiment

Swedish House of Finance Research Paper No. 21-15
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 11 Jun 2021 Last Revised: 24 Aug 2021
Claudia Custodio, Christopher Hansman and Diogo Mendes
Imperial College London, Imperial College Business School and Stockholm School of Economics
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Take-up of government programs, COVID-19, SMEs, Information

Information Frictions and Firm Take Up of Government Support: A Randomised Controlled Experiment

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP16216
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 14 Jul 2021
Claudia Custodio, Chris Hansman and Diogo Mendes
Imperial College London, Imperial College London and Stockholm School of Economics
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Firm Responses to Violent Conflicts

Swedish House of Finance Research Paper No. 21-06
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 10 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 09 Jul 2021
Claudia Custodio, Bernardo Mendes and Diogo Mendes
Imperial College London, Nova School of Business and Economics and Stockholm School of Economics
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Conflicts, Inventory Management, Working Capital Management, Developing Countries

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The Sensitivity of SME’s Investment and Employment to the Cost of Debt Financing

Number of pages: 81 Posted: 08 Jul 2021 Last Revised: 16 Sep 2021
Claudia Custodio, Diana Bonfim and Clara C. Raposo
Imperial College London, Banco de Portugal and ISEG Lisbon School of Economics & Management
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SME financing, Credit Rating, Credit Access, Credit Certification

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Corporate Brand and Firm Value

Posted: 21 May 2007
José Rosário and Claudia Custodio
ISCTE and Imperial College London

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corporate brand, brand, firm value, social responsibility, Fortune and America's Most Admired Companies