Maria Correia is a Professor of Accounting at the London School of Economics. Her primary research interests include credit markets, disclosure regulation, and corporate governance. Her research has been published in leading academic journals, such as Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, Review of Accounting Studies, and Management Science, and has been covered, among others, by Politico, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post.
She serves as an associate editor for Accounting and Business Research and European Accounting Review and is a member of the editorial boards of The Accounting Review, Review of Accounting Studies, and Journal of Business Finance. She received several teaching awards.
Prior to joining LSE, she was a faculty member at London Business School.
She holds a PhD in Business Administration (Accounting) from Stanford University.
AC210 - Financial Statement Analysis for Investment Banking and Asset Management
AC480 - Quantitative Methods in Accounting and Finance
Financial Statement Analysis and Equity Valuation (Executive Education)
Editorial Board Membership
Accounting Review
Journal of Business Finance and Accounting
Review of Accounting Studies
Associate Editor
Accounting and Business Research
European Accounting Review
Research grants
2009-2013 London Business School RAMD Award
2013 Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology
2013-2015 London Business School RAMD Award
Other honors and awards
2022 Excellence in Refereeing Award Journal of Accounting Research
2020 Best Referee Award Review of Accounting Studies
2018, 2019 LSE Excellence in Education Award
2013-2015 Term Assistant Professor
2011 Best Paper Award at the Review of Accounting Studies Conference
2008 American Accounting Association Doctoral Consortium Fellow
2007 Wiliam H. Beaver PhD Fellowship
2004-2005 Jaedicke Merit Award, Stanford Graduate School of Business
2004-2009 Doctoral Fellowship, Stanford Graduate School of Business
2004 Amélia de Mello Award (for the highest grade in the coursework for the masters degree in Economics)
2003 Unysis Research Award (for having the highest grade in Econometrics in the Doctoral and Masters Program in Economics at Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
2002 Fundação Engenheiro António de Almeida Award (for the highest grade point average in the "licenciatura" in Economics)
2001 Bank of Portugal Award (for the highest grade point average in the "licenciatura" in Economics)
1997-1999 University Merit Scholarship, as an award for having one of the three best academic records in those years
