Are green and socially responsible funds more efficient than conventional funds? A DEA approaches

Maria Elisabete Duarte Neves is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Master's Degree in Financial Analysis at Coimbra Business School|ISCAC. She is a researcher at the Centre for Transdisciplinary Development Studies (UTAD) and at Polytechnic of Coimbra, Coimbra Business School Research Centre| ISCAC. She received her Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Salamanca (Spain). Her research topics include stock evaluation and performance of investment funds, corporate governance and behavioral characteristics, bank efficiency and performance, green funds, CSR and Corporate Performance. She has several articles published in indexed journals, such as the Journal of Management and Governance; International Journal of Managerial Finance; International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management; Euromed Journal of Business, International Journal of Accounting and Information Management; Operational Research; Journal Operational Research Society, Social Responsibility Journal, China Finance Review International, Annals of Operations Research, Business Strategy and the Environment (BSE) etc.

Maria do Castelo Gouveia is an Assistant Professor at Coimbra Business School | ISCAC, Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, where she has been teaching courses on Mathematics, informatics and operations research. Maria is a researcher at INESC Coimbra and a collaborator at Business and Economics Research at U. Coimbra (CeBER). She is graduated in Mathematics, from the Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Coimbra (1997). She has an M. Sc. degree in Information Management in Organizations from the Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra (2002) and a Ph.D. in Business Management, from the Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra (2012). The main research area is Operational Research and Data Science, with emphasis on the development of models for evaluating efficiency and productivity evolution using the Data Envelopment Analysis Technique. She is a Member of the Representative Council and Scientific Council of Coimbra Business School | ISCAC. The results of her work have appeared as communications in international conferences, publications in conference proceedings with refereeing, publications in book chapters and scientific journals indexed in the Web of Science and Scopus, such as the Journal of the Operational Research Society, OR Spectrum, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Economic Analysis and Policy, Omega, etc.

Adriana Martins obtained her master's degree in financial analysis at Coimbra Business SchoolISCAC and currently works in the Risk management department in one of the big four in Lisbon, the capital of Portugal.

Joaquim Carlos da Costa Pinho has a Ph.D. in Applied Economics from the University of Santiago de Compostela, an MSc in Finance, and a degree in Management from Portucalense University. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Aveiro, at the Department of Economics, Management and Industrial Engineering. He lectures under graduated and graduated courses in Finances and Economics. Presently, he is the coordinator of the research group on Decision Support Systems integrated into the research unit on Competitiveness, Governance and Public Policy (GOVCOPP). He was a member of the University of Aveiro research teams participating in several nationally sponsored projects in the fields of Economics and Finance, Regional Development and Decision Support Tools development. He is the author and co-author of more than 100 papers presented at national and international conferences or published in scientific journals and books.