Elisabete Vieira. Hold a Ph.D. in Management in 2005 from ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, specializing in Finance (PhD Finance) on December 5, 2005, at the same institution. They also earned a Bachelor's degree in Corporate Management from the Universidade Católica Portuguesa in 1990. She was the Director of the Aveiro Institute of Accounting and Administration from the University of Aveiro (ISCA-UA), from 2018 to 2023. With a focus on Social Sciences, particularly Economics and Management, this professional has published several articles in specialized journals, authored various book chapters, and written several books. She is supervisor of several PhD thesis, as well as master dissertations. She is member of the direction group of the Doctoral Program in Economic and Business Sciences (CEE) at the University of Aveiro. She teaches subjects of Finance in courses of graduation, master and Doctoral Programs. Their academic and professional activities revolve around themes such as volatility, return, risk, performance, SMEs, debt determinants, crisis, panel data, international finance, capital structure, recession, debt financing, family businesses, financial equilibrium, working capital, profitability, dividends, earnings, signaling hypothesis, market reaction, abnormal returns, financial crisis, performance indicators, performance evaluation, Euronext Lisbon, financial literacy, secondary education, finance, influencing factors, financial risk, hedging strategies, investor sentiment, sovereign debt and crisis, bonds, shares, accounting, financial markets, financial audit, companies' financial management, audit quality, stock returns, specific factors of firms, capital markets, public administration and management, hospital management in Coimbra (Portugal), budget management, internal control, public sector, public hospitals, expenditure sector, companies' financial management, working capital management, components of working capital, stock exchange, small and medium enterprises, liquidity, panel data, audit, agency theory, corporate governance, audit opinion, bankruptcy, economic and financial ratios, management, taxes, dividends, dividend policy, ex-dividend, tax effect, clientele effect, PSI 20, corporate finance, listed companies in Portugal, market value of companies, financial crisis, dividend policy, results, signaling theory, market reaction, abnormal returns, financial crisis, capital structure, family firms, panel data, market performance, accounting performance, credit management, financing, panel data, credit, financing, panel data, spokes-character, children, consumption, kids marketing, mascots, children, consumption, child marketing, corporate financing, capital market, financing policy, SMEs, NYSE Alternext, economic crisis, business management, small and medium enterprises in Portugal, debt, capital structure determinants, panel data, stocks (stock exchange), risk, volatility, performance, economics, business management - Women, large companies, gender, diversity, composition, performance, management decisions, women, decision-making, financial literacy, financial education, financial behavior, crisis.