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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.
Research interests
- Credit markets
- Default prediction
- Business groups
- Corporate governance
Teaching
- 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