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Laura Capera

Candidate Fellow
University
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
E-mail
l.m.capera@vu.nl
Research field
Finance
Interests
Banking, Competition Policy, Finance, Industrial Organization, Innovation, Regional and Urban Economics
Website
Link to personal website

Biography

Laura Capera is an Assistant Professor at the Finance Department at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She obtained her PhD in Economics from Tilburg University in 2020. She applies industrial organization methods to analyze the effects of innovation and regulatory changes on competition and financial access across geographic markets.

Key publications

List of publications

\Capera Romero\, L.M., \Artiga Gonzalez\, T., Karmaziene, E. and Yuan, X. (2025). Green Gains: The Impact of REITs’ Environmental Performance on Sustainability-Linked Loan Interest Rates Finance Research Letters, 71:1--7.

Menkveld, A., Caskurlu, T., Vladimirov, V. and Project\, \.C.A. (2024). Nonstandard Errors The Journal of Finance, 79(3):2339--2390.