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Dr. Porras earned her Masters of Science in Administration degree from Central Michigan University graduating with a perfect 4.0 GPA, and in 1999 received her doctorate in Finance from Florida Atlantic University. Dr. Porras has thirteen years of experience working for multinational corporations including Ring Power Corp (Caterpillar), CBS/FOX Video Corp and Citibank. During the last eight years she has combined teaching and research at the University level with executive education and consulting. Currently she is the Director of the Master in Finance and Control program at the Instituto de Empresa in Madrid, Spain. Although her lectures cover a wide range of financial issues, her main fields of expertise and research are corporate finance and financial markets. Dr. Porras’s research projects have included the cost of capital, the effect of changes in the exchange rate on financial markets, fundamentals versus contagion variables in financial markets, financial asset bubbles, contagion and the transmission of crises among international financial markets. She is in the process of writing two books, “A History of Finance” and “Cost of Capital”.
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