Come join us for the "Finance and Industrial Organization" session on Sunday morning at AFA 😊 I will present "Board Connections, Firm Profitability, and Product Market Actions", joint with Radha Gopalan and Alminas Zaldokas.

If you are at the AFA, come see Renping Li present our paper in the Finance and Industrial Organization Session on Jan 5, 1015-1215. Looking forward to Felipe’s discussion!

Banks help to issue muni bonds. If the banking market is less competitive, would they charge munis more, increasing borrowing costs to municipal governments? This nice paper by Renping Li suggests yes: after bank M&As, muni governments face higher underwriting spreads

Very excited to join Journal of Corporate Finance star team of editors and AEs! Looking forward to contributing to the journal and the field!

Very interesting question Roberto Robatto❗ It's about product market spillovers. I was holding out disseminating this manuscript as it's preliminary, but given many people are talking about the effect of DeepSeek on US tech stocks I just posted this new paper to my website.

🚨 New Paper and Public Good🚨 "The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset", joint with Chenzi Xu, Mohammed Lehbib, and Ziliang Chen. We built the most comprehensive macro database ever—covering 243 countries from 1086-today, integrating 110 sources. 🧵

📢Call for Papers – SaM 2025 🇱🇹 European Search and Matching Conference will take place in Vilnius, May 8–10, 2025! 🎤Keynotes: ✨Ayşegül Şahin (Princeton) ✨Robert Shimer (Chicago) 🔹Submit by Feb 15, 2025 at sam2025.econ.lt #SearchAndMatching #SaM2025 #Vilnius

rodneywhitecenter.wharton.upenn.edu/2025-summer-sc… Luke Taylor, Stephen Terry, and I are doing it again. This will be the 5th structural summer school in finance. We do not just teach papers. We teach techniques, and then we have students work on a problem set. Please get your students to apply.

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS Baltic Central Banks’ Invited Lecture Series and Workshop “Local projections for applied economics” on May 21-3, 2025, in Riga, Latvia. 📷 Invited Lecture: Óscar Jordà (San Francisco Fed/UC Davis) 📅 Deadline: Feb 28, 2025 ➡️Submit: suerf.org/membership/mem…

Join us this Thursday as we will present our research on "Kamikazes in Public Procurements" at the HKUST-IEMS Webinar! 🕓 Times: 4pm SGT/HKT 9am BST 4am EDT 1am PDT Register here to participate: hkust.zoom.us/webinar/regist… #Economics #CorporateGovernance #BidRigging #Procurement

In case you need a distraction from the daily news and want to learn more about the effects of bid-rigging in public procurement auctions on health outcomes, road accidents, and government contracts more broadly...

Two interesting papers and two great discussions expected this Wed at ACFOW, a venue for Asia-Pacific corporate finance researchers: sites.google.com/view/acfow! Join if times suit you! Qifei Zhu Maxim Alekseev

Join us tomorrow at the online workshop!

📢Extremely proud to announce the program of the 14th MoFiR Workshop on banking, which will be in Singapore next June 2-3 at NUS and INSEAD. 📢 Check out the agenda here: sites.google.com/view/mofirsemi… Karsten Müller Ben Charoenwong Alberto Zazzaro CEPR

That was quick, Hong Kong Uni of Science and Technology says it will expedite admissions and provide visa and housing support to students currently enrolled at Harvard as well as those holding confirmed offers in wake of Trump admin's announcement barring international students:

[ HKUST Opens Doors to Harvard Students Amid Global Academic Shifts ] In light of global academic shifts, HKUST is extending an open invitation to international students currently enrolled at, or holding confirmed offers from, Harvard University to continue their academic

We are looking for 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭-𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 with a solid background in finance or economics, strong AI/ML skills, and a genuine interest in climate change, automotive, defense or deep technology. Join the Centre for European Transformation—a partnership

Baltic Economic Conference 2025 starting with the introductions, luigi guiso's keynote address, and catching up over coffee!