Prof.univ.dr. Maria Miruna Pochea
Strada Teodor Mihali, Nr. 58-60
Campus FSEGA
400591, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Tel: +40 264 418 652/3/4/5
Fax: +40 264 412 570
Int: 5828
Birou: 239
E-mail: miruna.pochea
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Orar de consultatii: Vineri 13.00-15.00 (cu programare pe e-mail).

Data nasterii: 10-03-1985
Nationalitate: Română
Experienta Profesionala: February 2023 - Present: Professor at Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
Teaching activities for Financial Markets, Behavioral Finance, Investment Behavior.
PhD supervisor on topics related to financial markets, behavioral finance with special focus on financial markets integration, financial literacy, investors’ herding behavior, sentiment analysis of central banks communication.

February 2017 - February 2023: Associate Professor at Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
Teaching activities for Financial Markets, Behavioral Finance, Investment Behavior, Seminar on Finance Research Methods.

April 2014 – February 2017: Lecturer at Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
Teaching activities for Financial Markets, Monetary Institutions and Mechanisms.

February 2009 – March 2014: Teaching Assistant at Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
Teaching activities for Financial Markets, Monetary Institutions and Mechanisms,
International Finance.

Educatie Formare: January 2022 – Habilitation in Finance, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca (Romania)

June 2014 – September 2015: Postdoctoral scholarship within the project number POSDRU/159/1.5/S/142115 „Performance and excellence in doctoral and postdoctoral research in Romanian economics science domain”.
Postdoctoral thesis: Investors' herding behavior on capital markets: empirical evidence for CEE countries

October 2008 – February 2012: PhD in Finance at Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca (Romania)

October 2007 – June 2008: Master degree in Banks, Finance, Insurance - Financial Engineering at Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca (Romania)

October 2003–July 2007: Bachelor degree in Finance and Banking at Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca
(Romania)

Courses and internships

1. Behavioral Finance, Corporate Finance Institute, January 2021
2. Artificial Intelligence in Finance, Centre for Financial Technology and
Entrepreneurship, October 2020
3. Behavioral Finance: Investors, Capital Markets and Corporations by prof. W. De Bondt (DePaul University, Chicago), Mons, Belgium, June 2017
4. Big Data Econometrics within the ERMAS 2014 conference, August 2014
5. Academica BNR Forum, National Bank of Romania, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

Research visits

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Department of Economics, Visiting Researcher, 17.11.2017 - 22.11.2017
Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Methods and Models for Economics, Territory and Finance, Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher, 03.02.2015 - 03.04.2015
Limba materna: Romanian
Limbi Straine: English, French
Aptitudini calculator: EViews, Stata, R, Python.