Biography:
Esther studied at Universidad Pontificia Comillas where she earned her Bachelor in Business and Economic Sciences. She gained a grant to pursue her phD studies by Universidad Pontificia Comillas and another one by Fundación Caja Madrid. Once she earned her phD in Finance, she joined the Faculty Members at the University where she studied. She has taught several subjects, all regarding the Financial Area, such as Portfolio Management, Corporate Finance and Financial Management., in both Undergraduate Postgraduate Studies. She led the Auditing and Accounting EY-Comillas Master program.
Currently, she is the Chair of the Sustainable Finance Observatory at Universidad P. Comillas in collaboratin with CaixaBank AM.
Areas of interest:
Sustainable Finance and Teaching Methods.
I. Rodríguez-Muñoz-de-Baena, M. Coronado‑Vaca, E. Vaquero Lafuente, "Fine-tuning transformer models for M&A target prediction in the U.S. ENERGY sector", Cogent Business & Management, Vol. 12, nº. 1, pp. 2487219, December 2025. [Online: April 2025] doi: 10.1080/23311975.2025.2487219
JCR-JIF: 3,500 Q2 (2025); - SJR: 0,647 Q2 (2025); A. Betti, P. Biderbost, E. Vaquero Lafuente, "Comparación entre el pensamiento visual y el aula invertida en la enseñanza de las relaciones internacionales", Revista de Educación, Nº. 412, pp. 183 - 210, April 2026. doi: 10.4438/1988-592X-RE-2025-412-739
JCR-JIF: 1,600 Q2 (2025) - SJR: 0,329 Q3 (2025) I. Rodríguez-Muñoz-de-Baena, M. Coronado‑Vaca, E. Vaquero Lafuente, "Fine-tuning transformer models for M&A target prediction in the U.S. ENERGY sector", Cogent Business & Management, Vol. 12, nº. 1, pp. 2487219, December 2025. [Online: April 2025] doi: 10.1080/23311975.2025.2487219
JCR-JIF: 3,500 Q2 (2025); - SJR: 0,647 Q2 (2025); M. Vivas-Redondo, M. Coronado‑Vaca, E. Vaquero Lafuente, "Valuation of American options using machine learning: beyond Longstaff–Schwartz and hybrid models", Journal of Derivatives and Quantitative Studies, Vol. 33, nº. 3, pp. 170 - 188, October 2025. [Online: May 2025] doi: 10.1108/JDQS-11-2024-0044
SJR: 0,219 Q4 (2025); 0,219 Q4 (2025) A. Betti, P. Biderbost, E. Vaquero Lafuente, "Visual Thinking Through Movies and Documentaries: Assessing Students' Learning and Satisfaction in an International Relations Class", Journal of International Studies -JIS, Vol. 21, nº. 2, pp. 87 - 106, August 2025. doi: 10.32890/jis2025.21.2.5
JCR-JIF: 1,100 Q3 (2024) - SJR: 0,373 Q2 (2025); 0,373 Q2 (2025) A. Betti, P. Biderbost, E. Vaquero Lafuente, "Flipped and Non-Flipped Teaching Formats in a Political Science Class: Detecting Patterns of Students' Soft Skills and Academic Achievement in an Experimental Single-Group Design", SAGE Open, Vol. 15, nº. 2, pp. 1 - 15, April 2025. [Online: June 2025] doi: 10.1177/21582440251351357
JCR-JIF: 2,400 Q1 (2025); - SJR: 0,541 Q1 (2025);
JCR-JIF: 1,244 Q4 (2020); 1,000 Q3 (2025) - SJR: 0,268 Q3 (2020); 0,353 Q3 (2025) J.J. García Petit, E. Vaquero Lafuente, A. Rúa, "How information technologies shape investor sentiment: a web-based investor sentiment index", Borsa Istanbul Review, Vol. 19, nº. 2, pp. 95 - 105, June 2019. [Online: January 2019] doi: 10.1016/j.bir.2019.01.001
JCR-JIF: 2,130 Q2 (2019); 5,700 Q1 (2025) - SJR: 0,684 Q2 (2019); 1,375 Q1 (2025) T. Corzo, M. Prat, E. Vaquero Lafuente, "Behavioral finance in Joseph de la Vega's confusion de confusiones", Journal of Behavioral Finance, Vol. 15, nº. 4, pp. 341 - 350, October 2014. [Online: December 2014] doi: 10.1080/15427560.2014.968722
JCR-JIF: 0,333 Q3 (2014); 1,700 Q2 (2025) - SJR: Q3 (2014); 0,482 Q2 (2025) 
