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Claudia Custodio is a Professor of Finance at Imperial College London Business School, with additional research affiliations at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI). Her academic work spans corporate finance, CEO characteristics, capital structure decisions, and financial education.
Her research interests focus on understanding how CEO characteristics and expertise influence corporate policies and performance. She has made significant contributions to understanding the impact of financial education on executive decision-making, the relationship between CEO generalist versus specialist experience and innovation, and how working capital management responds to external shocks like political violence and climate change. Her work often employs rigorous empirical methods including randomized controlled trials to establish causal relationships.
Analysis of her recent publications reveals a strong trend toward field experiments and policy-relevant research, particularly in emerging markets. Her work on financial education in Mozambique demonstrates how targeted educational interventions can improve financial decision-making among executives. She also investigates how external shocks like the opioid crisis and climate change affect corporate behavior and economic outcomes through various channels including supply chains and real estate markets.
Her research has been supported by various institutions including the Swedish House of Finance, with whom she has collaborated on multiple projects examining working capital management under political violence and information frictions in government support programs during the pandemic.
Professor Custodio maintains active research collaborations with scholars across Europe, particularly in Portugal, Sweden, and the Netherlands, reflecting the international nature of her research agenda focused on corporate finance issues in both developed and emerging economies.
