Paulo Alexandre Pimenta Alves

Associate Professor
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palves@ucp.pt

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Vice-Dean at Católica Porto Business School (Staff, Management Control, Accreditations and Ranking e Master Programmes).

Paulo Alves holds a Ph.D. and a Post‑Doctorate in Accounting and Finance awarded from Lancaster University (UK).

Paulo is an Associate Professor at Católica Porto Business School and a Visiting Research Associate and a guest lecturer at Lancaster University.

Paulo's primary areas of research involve the impact of information on capital markets, with a particular focus on the role of financial narratives, with several publications in reputable international accounting and finance journals. Current projects include analysis of preliminary earnings announcements and structured retrieval of text from annual reports published as PDF files. Paulo is a project member of The Corporate Financial Information Environment (http://cfie.lancaster.ac.uk/).

Paulo is an active researcher at CEGEA ‑ Research Centre in Management and Applied Economics, a consultant in accounting, finance and governance topics. He is a certified auditor and accountant.

Areas of Research:
Book chapter

Accounting for PPP

Paulo Alexandre Pimenta Alves 2017. Global Encyclopaedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance
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Adopção antecipada das normas internacionais de contabilidade. A prática das empresas relativa a impostos diferidos e a posição dos Revisores Oficiais de Contas

Paulo Alexandre Pimenta Alves (with Alves, Paulo). 2004. Revisores & Empresas
Other

Credit conditions and corporate investment in Europe

Paulo Alexandre Pimenta Alves 2016. European Investment Bank
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Cross-border information transfers: Evidence from profit warnings issued by European firms

Paulo Alexandre Pimenta Alves (with Alves, P.). 2009. Accounting and Business Research
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Disclosure of Information and Transparency in Public-private Partnerships: a Comparative Study Between Portugal and the UK

Paulo Alexandre Pimenta Alves (with Luís Cracel Viana). 2023. Accounting in Europe
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European cross-border information transfers and the impact of accounting standards regime changes

Paulo Alexandre Pimenta Alves (with Young, Steven). 2010. ICAEW - Centre for Business Performance
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How Banks Price Loans for LBOs: an Empirical Analysis of Spread Determinants *

João Filipe Monteiro Pinto & Paulo Alexandre Pimenta Alves (with Alves, Paulo P.). 2021. Journal of Financial Services Research
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Book chapter

Multilingual Financial Narrative Processing: Analyzing Annual Reports in English, Spanish, and Portuguese

Paulo Alexandre Pimenta Alves (with El-Haj, Mahmoud). 2019. Multilingual Text Analysis
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Relato financeiro – O novo paradigma das tecnologias da informação

Paulo Alexandre Pimenta Alves (with Alves, Paulo). 2002. Estudos do ISCAA
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Replacing the judges - Using AI to measure annual report quality

Paulo Alexandre Pimenta Alves (with Young, S.). 2019. Informed
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Retrieving, classifying and analysing narrative commentary in unstructured (glossy) annual reports published as PDF files

Paulo Alexandre Pimenta Alves 2019. Accounting and Business Research
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Book chapter

The Adoption of the International Financial Reporting Standards in Portugal: Can Expected Costs be Reduced

Paulo Alexandre Pimenta Alves (with Alves, Paulo). 2004. Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Knowledge and Enterprise in Competitiveness
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The economics of securitization: Evidence from the European markets

Paulo Alexandre Pimenta Alves & João Filipe Monteiro Pinto (with Pinto, J.). 2016. Investment Management and Financial Innovations
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The impact of IAS 39 on the risk-relevance of earnings volatility: Evidence from foreign banks cross-listed in the USA

Paulo Alexandre Pimenta Alves (with Duh, R.-R.). 2012. Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics
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The impact of Public Private Partnerships on public accounts: the Portuguese roads sector

Paulo Alexandre Pimenta Alves (with Viana, L.). 2017. XVI CICA
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The impact of public–private partnerships on public accounts: The Portuguese roads sector

Paulo Alexandre Pimenta Alves (with Cracel Viana, Luís). 2020. Financial Accountability & Management
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The use of the R<sup>2</sup> as a measure of firm-specific information: A cross-country critique

Paulo Alexandre Pimenta Alves (with Alves, P.). 2010. Journal of Business Finance and Accounting
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Towards a Multilingual Financial Narrative Processing System

Paulo Alexandre Pimenta Alves (with El-Haj, M.). 2018. 1st Financial Narrative Processing Workshop (FNP2018)
Other

WeCare: Financial Planning as a Support to Decision Making

Paulo Alexandre Pimenta Alves (with Pinto, João). 2023.
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