Applications for Assistant Professor in Finance and Economics at UCL are now closed, but we also have a position on the Education track (at the Associate level). Please spread the word: mgmt.ucl.ac.uk/vacancies/asso…

Thinking about applying for a #PhD? Take a look at our fully-funded PhD in #FinancialEconomics based in the heart of London’s intellectual and financial centres. ➡️bit.ly/3JhKxIM UCL School of Management UCL Social & Historical Sciences

As usual, Andrea Polo, José-Luis Peydro and I will be running the Financial Intermediation and Risk workshop (June 6-7) at the BSE Summer Forum. Please submit your papers before 28 Feb. UCL Economics UCL School of Management Barcelona School of Economics bse.eu/summer-forum/w…

A bit of shameless self-promotion: My paper with Michael McMahon, entitled "Beyond Pangloss: Financial sector origins of inefficient economic booms", has just been published in the JME. Check it out! doi.org/10.1016/j.jmon…

Join us in Barcelona in June. Submission deadline is today!

🥁📢I am organizing with Artashes Karapetyan the CEPR-ESSEC-Luxembourg conference on Sustainable Financial Intermediation, July 29-30, 2024 Location: Moselle valley 🍇, Luxembourg 🇱🇺 🔔Deadline: April 15, 2024 Submit here 👇 ssrn.com/index.cfm/en/j…

Kalina Manova has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for her research project, “Firm Network Technology and Technology in Firm Networks”. Congratulations Kalina! shorturl.at/iHV35

Chris makes a watertight argument here. Administration (called bankruptcy elsewhere) is an essential process of capitalist systems. A bailout would be disastrous.

🚨Call for papers 🚨 Swiss Conference on Financial Intermediation, to be held at Study Center Gerzensee, March 30-April 2, 2025. Submissions due October 31! Supported by Bank for International Settlements, CEPR, SFI mailchi.mp/cepr/bis-cepr-…

This is one of the most clever data presentations of a statistical outlier. Erling Haaland 🇸🇯

What are the #economicchallenges facing #Europe and the West? Professor #RomanoProdi is an economist and former president of European Commission. Come hear his thoughts at the UCL Centre for Finance Annual Lecture 2024. Book now ➡️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/ucl-centre-f…

Prof Romano Prodi, former Italian PM and past President of the European Commission, shared geopolitical insights with the UCL community at the UCL Centre for Finance annual lecture, where he predicted the UK will rejoin the EU within 15 years UCL Economics ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/oct/…

UCL is hiring in Finance (centreforfinance.org). Deadline for Assistant Professor level is 22 November. econjobmarket.org/positions/10955. UCL Economics UCL School of Management

For those who haven't paid attention, long gone are the days where JME was a "slow" journal. Currently, 73% of our decisions are back to authors within 2 months, and 96% back within 4 months. That's essentially the steady state since 2018 (see jme.rochester.edu).