dr. Tanja Artiga Gonzalez

Associate Professor, School of Business and Economics, Finance

, Tinbergen Institute

Personal information

Tanja Artiga González is Associate Professor of Finance at the School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where she works in the Department of Finance. She is also a research fellow at the Tinbergen Institute. She obtained her PhD in Finance from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, in 2015. Her work is situated in empirical corporate finance, with a particular focus on corporate governance, shareholder decision-making, and the relationships between managers, boards, shareholders, and other stakeholders.

Research

Tanja Artiga González studies how companies and investors make decisions when financial incentives, governance, and societal expectations interact. Her research focuses on corporate and sustainable finance, and is relevant to listed corporations, financial markets, institutional investors, pension funds, and banks. She examines how the rules, incentives, and information environments surrounding corporate and financial decision-making influence the behaviour of firms and investors. She studies these questions using empirical and experimental methods, with the aim of understanding how firms and financial markets respond to governance mechanisms, regulatory change, and evolving stakeholder expectations.

More information on her research: https://sites.google.com/view/tartigagonzalez

Teaching

Tanja Artiga González teaches and supervises students at bachelor’s, pre-master, master’s, PhD, and executive-education levels. Her broader teaching profile covers corporate finance, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, mathematics, and research supervision. Tanja contributes to finance education through her current programme and coordination roles. She is involved in the programme management of the part-time PhD in Finance and coordinates the Master of Finance specialization in Financial Management. In these roles, she contributes to the development, organization, and quality of finance education, with attention to research training, academic standards, and the connection between advanced finance knowledge and professional practice.

Ancillary activities

No ancillary activities

Ancillary activities are updated daily