Department of Business Administration, University Carlos III of Madrid

The Department of Business Administration at Carlos III, consistently ranked first in Business Administration Studies in Spain, is committed to high quality teaching and research. Faculty members’ research has been published in journals like /Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Econometrica, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Management Science, Marketing Science, Organization Science, Review of Financial Studies, Strategic Management Journal, The Accounting Review/ or /Journal of Marketing Research/, among others. We provide faculty members and PhD students with a wide range of facilities to improve their research, including access to the common /databases/ used in the field. Teaching includes programmes at the undergraduate and graduate levels, including an MBA programme accredited by AMBA [3] and our very demanding PhD programme on Business Economics and Quantitative Methods. The Business Department of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) has been among the top 20 institutions in Europe in recent years (2009-2013) according to UT Dallas Ranking [4], which is based on publications in top tier journals [5] in Accounting, Finance, Management, and Marketing. Also, in the 2014 QS World University Ranking [6], the Business Department is ranked among the best 100 institutions world basis in Finance & Accounting and the unique Spanish institution that appears in this ranking.