CIEF stands for Centro de Investigação sobre Economia Financeira - the Centre for Research on Financial Economics. It is a private, non-profit association, legally established in 1989, which is recognised as the research centre of the Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão (ISEG) - the School of Economics and Management, the Technical University of Lisbon.
CIEF promotes research into financial economics and concentrates its activities in line with the following aims:
- The production and dissemination of advanced studies in financial economics;
- The provision of upgrading courses to the academic staff of ISEG in the form of both individual research work and in groups;
- The expansion of contacts with other Portuguese and foreign institutions with similar interests in common areas of research;
- The systematic gathering of documentation in the scientific domain in which CIEF specialises;
- The provision of research-project support to young research assistants and Post-graduate students;
- The creation of an international network of links with universities and counter-part research centres, covering all aspects of the financial world.
In order to achieve these goals, CIEF can call on the support of professors and assistants who specialise in the monetary and financial fields, in addition to eminent Portuguese and overseas economists and researchers.
CIEF possesses its own IT system and software and is located in premises provided by ISEG.
CIEF offers the following services to the financial/business community:
- Research projects;
- Seminars, conferences, colloquia and similar activities;
- Training courses;
- Guidance for Post-graduate research work and supervision of Doctoral theses;
- Editing and publishing;
- Risk-analysis projects in relation to the financial market.
Governing Bodies
Board of Governors
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