SANTACREU VASUT Estefania

Estefania Santacreu-Vasut obtained a PhD in Economics from UC Berkeley. She is an associate professor of economics at ESSEC Business School and THEMA. Her research focuses on gender and institutions and has been published in outlets such as the Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, among others. She is a consultant for the OECD, co-founder of the project Gender & Finance and the co-author, together with Tom Gamble, of the popular press book `The nature of goods and the goods of nature: why anti-globalization is not the answer'.

• 2010 : Ph.D. in Economics (University of California, Berkeley, United States of America)
• 2006 : MSc in Economics (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
• 2005 : BA in Economics (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)

Full-time academic appointments

• 2022 - Present : Professor (ESSEC Business School, France)
• 2016 - 2022 : Associate Professor (ESSEC Business School, France)
• 2010 - 2016 : Assistant Professor (ESSEC Business School, France)

Other Academic Appointments

• 2021 - Present : Track Head (ESSEC Business School, France)
• 2022 - 2025 : Associate Dean for Pedagogy (ESSEC Business School, France)
• 2014 - 2022 : Responsible of the Economics track (ESSEC Business School, France)
• 2010 - Present : Member of THEMA (Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France)
• 2008 - 2009 : Research Assistant, Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy for Professor Cohen and Professor Delong (University of California, United States of America)
• 2005 - 2006 : Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, Microeconomic Theory, Public Sector Economics, Applied Economics (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
• 2005 : Research Assistant, Empirical data research for Professor Jimenez and Professor Roses (Universidad Carlos III, Spain)

• 2015 : 2015 SSE/WAIB Award for Increased Gender Awareness in IB Research Sponsored by the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) and Women in AIB (WAIB)
• 2014 : Best Paper Award, SSE/WAIB, for Increased Gender Awareness in International Business Research, Stockholm School of Economics, for the paper "Does Language Affect the Mission of Financial Organizations? Evidence from Gender Marking and Microfinance Institutions'' (coauthored with I. Drori, R. Manos, & A. Shoham)

• 2009 : All-UC Travel grant. Visit to British Library and London School of Economics
• 2008 : Salzburg Global Seminar Fellowship Session 456
• 2008 - 2009 : UC Berkeley, Graduate Fellowship Department of Economics
• 2006 - 2008 : Fundacion Caja Madrid. Beca de Posgrado
• 2005 - 2006 : Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Beca de Estudios

• DRORI, I., MANOS, R., SANTACREU VASUT, E. and SHOHAM, A. (2020). How does the global microfinance industry determine its targeting strategy across cultures with differing gender values? Journal of World Business, 55(5).
• DAVINO, C., ESPOSITO VINZI, V., SANTACREU VASUT, E. and VRANCEANU, R. (2019). An Attitude Model of Environmental Action: Evidence from Developing and Developed Countries. Social Indicators Research, 143(2), pp. 811-838.
• SANTACREU VASUT, E. and PIKE, C. (2019). Competition Policy and Gender. Concurrences (articles), (4).
• DRORI, I., MANOS, R., SANTACREU VASUT, E., SHENKAR, O. and SHOHAM, A. (2018). Language and Market Inclusivity for Women Entrepreneurship: The Case of Microfinance. Journal of Business Venturing, 4(33), pp. 395-415.
• CHARLETY-LEPERS, P., ROMELLI, D. and SANTACREU VASUT, E. (2017). Appointments to Central Bank Boards: Does Gender Matter? Economics Letters, 155, pp. 59-61.
• GAY, V., HICKS, D.L., SANTACREU VASUT, E. and SHOHAM, A. (2017). Decomposing Culture: An Analysis of Gender, Language, and Labor Supply in the Household. Review of Economics of the Household, 16(4), pp. 879-909.
• JENY, A. and SANTACREU VASUT, E. (2017). New Avenues of Research to Explain the Rarity of Females at the Top of the Accountancy Profession. Palgrave Communications, 3, pp. 1-10.
• SANTACREU VASUT, E. and TESHIMA, K. (2016). Foreign Employees as Channel for Technology Transfer: Evidence from MNCs Subsidiaries in Mexico. Journal of Development Economics, 122, pp. 92-112.
• HICKS, D., SANTACREU VASUT, E. and SHOHAM, A. (2015). Does Mother Tongue Make for Women's Work? Linguistics, Household Labor, and Gender Identity. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 110, pp. 19-44.
• SANTACREU VASUT, E., SHENKAR, O. and SHOHAM, A. (2014). Linguistic gender marking and its international business ramifications. Journal of International Business Studies, 45(9), pp. 1170-1178.
• SANTACREU VASUT, E., SHOHAM, A. and GAY, V. (2013). Do Female/Male Distinctions In Language Matter? Evidence from Gender Political Quotas. Applied Economics Letters, 20(5), pp. 495-498.

• SANTACREU VASUT, E. and GAMBLE, T. (2018). The Nature of Goods and the Goods of Nature. Why Anti-Globalisation Is Not the Answer. Societas, 150 pages.

• GAY, V., HICKS, D. and SANTACREU VASUT, E. (2016). Migration as a Window into the Coevolution between Language and Behavior. In: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EVOLANG11). University of Southern Mississippi.

• LONGIN, F. and SANTACREU VASUT, E. (2019). CEO Nomination and Gender Leadership Stereotypes: Evidence from Lab Experiments. In: 2019 European Economics Association Meeting (EEA-ESEM 2019).
• LONGIN, F. and SANTACREU VASUT, E. (2019). CEO Nomination and Gender Leadership Stereotypes: Evidence from Lab Experiments. In: 3rd Meetings of Society of Economics of the Household (SEHO). Lisbon.
• SANTACREU VASUT, E. and PIKE, C. (2018). Competition Policy and Gender. In: Global Forum on Competition: Background Paper DAF/COMP/GF.
• JENY, A. and SANTACREU VASUT, E. (2018). Corporate Social Responsability, Translation and Language: The Case of Gender in the Big Four. In: 41st European Accounting Association (EAA) Annual Congress.
• JENY, A. and SANTACREU VASUT, E. (2018). Language and Gender in the audit profession: Evidence from a Big Four Diversity reporting accross countries. In: 12th Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting (IPA) Conference 2018.
• SANTACREU VASUT, E., SHOHAM, A. and HICKS, D. (2017). Decomposing Culture: An Analysis of Gender, Language and Labor Supply in the Household. In: 32nd European Economic Association Meeting.
• SANTACREU VASUT, E., DRORI, I., MANOS, R. and SHOHAM, A. (2017). Microfinance Strategy to Target Women: An Interpretive Approach. In: 5th European Research Conference on Microfinance.
• SANTACREU VASUT, E. (2016). Foreign Employees as Channel for Technology Transfer: Evidence from MNC’s Subsidiaries in Mexico. In: Pacific Conference for Development Economics (PacDev) 2016.
• SANTACREU VASUT, E., GAY, V. and HICKS, D.L. (2016). Language and Gender Roles among Immigrants in the US: A Historical Perspective. In: 2nd Workshop on Gender: Culture and Gender Issues.
• SANTACREU VASUT, E., DITILLO, A. and HOFFJAN, A. (2016). Women in Central Bank Boards over the Last 15 Years: A Governance Perspective. In: 6th International Conference of the Financial Engineering and Banking Society.
• HICKS, D., SANTACREU VASUT, E. and SHOHAM, A. (2015). Does Mother Tongue Make for Women's Work? Linguistics, Household Labor, and Gender Identity. In: 2015 Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association.
• HICKS, D., SANTACREU VASUT, E. and SHOHAM, A. (2015). Does Mother Tongue Make for Women's Work? Linguistics, Household Labor, and Gender Identity. In: Royal Economic Society Conference 2015.
• SANTACREU VASUT, E. and VIVE-REJO, J. (2015). Fiscal Policies and the Green Economy Transition: Generating Knowledge – Creating Impact. In: Third Annual Conference of the Green Growth Knowledge Platform.
• SANTACREU VASUT, E. and TESHIMA, K. (2015). Foreign Employees as Channel for Technology Transfer: Evidence from MNCs Subsidiaries in Mexico. In: 2015 Northeast Universities Development Consortium (NEUDC) Conference.
• CHARLETY-LEPERS, P. and SANTACREU VASUT, E. (2015). Gender Diversity in Central Banks. In: 32nd International Conference of the French Finance Association.
• SANTACREU VASUT, E., DRORI, I., MANDS, R. and SHOHAM, A. (2014). Do Female Distinctions in Language Influence Microfinance Outreach to Women? In: 2014 Academy of Management Annual Meeting.
• SANTACREU VASUT, E., HICKS, D. and SHOHAN, A. (2014). Does Mother Tongue Make for Women's Work? Linguistics, Household Labor and Gender Identity. In: 29th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association.
• HICKS, D.L., SANTACREU VASUT, E. and SHOHAM, A. (2014). Does Mother Tongue Make for Women's Work? Linguistics, Household Labor, and Gender Identity. In: 2014 Annual Meeting of the Academy of International Business (AIB 2014).
• SANTACREU VASUT, E., HICKS, D. and SHOHAM, A. (2013). Does Mother Tongue Make for Women's Work? Linguistics and the Division of Labor. In: 2013 Northeast Universities Development Consortium (NEUDC) Conference.
• SANTACREU VASUT, E., SHOHAM, A. and GAY, V. (2013). Language and Gender Economics. In: 2013 Annual Conference of the Royal Economic Society.
• GAY, V. and SANTACREU VASUT, E. (2013). The Grammatical Origins of Gender Roles: An Empirical Investigation. In: 2013 Pacific Conference for Development Economics (PacDev).
• SANTACREU VASUT, E. (2012). A Novel Approach to the Study of Culture and Development: Lanaguages Grammatical Structure. In: Royal Economic Society 2012 Annual Conference.
• SANTACREU VASUT, E. (2012). Language and Gender Socio-Economic Outcomes. In: NUEDC 2012 (Northeast Universities Development Consortium Conference).
• SANTACREU VASUT, E. and SHOHAM, A. (2012). Language and Socio-Economic Structure: The Case of Culture and Gender. In: International Trade and Finance Association's 22nd International Conference.
• SANTACREU VASUT, E. and SHOHAM, A. (2012). Language and Socio-Economic Structure: The Case of Culture and Gender. In: 2012 AIB Southeast USA Conference.
• SANTACREU VASUT, E. and TESHIMA, K. (2011). Expatriates as Leaders of Technology Transfer and FDI: Theory and Evidence from Mexico. In: 2011 Royal Economic Society Annual Conference.
• SANTACREU VASUT, E. and TESHIMA, K. (2011). Management Structure and Technological Composition of FDI: Evidence From MNC's Subsidiaries in Mexico. In: ETSG 2011.

• KIM, C., SANTACREU VASUT, E. and SHIN, E.K. (2020). Trade-off between health and wealth? Insights from COVID-19 in South Korea. Covid Economics 58, 19 November, p 57-84, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR).
• DAVINO, C., ESPOSITO VINZI, V., SANTACREU VASUT, E. and VRANCEANU, R. (2017). An Attitude Model of Environmental Action: Evidence from Developing and Developed Countries. ESSEC Business School.
• CHARLETY-LEPERS, P., ROMELLI, D. and SANTACREU VASUT, E. (2016). Appointments to Central Bank Boards: Does Gender Matter? ESSEC Business School.

• SANTACREU VASUT, E. and LONGIN, F. (2021). Gender Equality In Finance. ESSEC Knowledge.
• SANTACREU VASUT, E. (2021). Gender Equality: Is Artificial Intelligence A Blessing Or A Curse. ESSEC Knowledge.