If the US has had one historical super power, it’s been our ability to attract talent from all over the world. Our bipartisan unwillingness to fix our broken immigration system, even at a time of historically low unemployment, is heartbreaking (and costly). See 😭 thread below…

The Finance Department at UIC is hiring a TT faculty member this year! If you are on the market, please consider joining our vibrant and (if I may say so) up-and-coming Department! careers.afajof.org/job/321192/ass…

Tomorrow (Dec 15, 11:59 pm CT) is the last day to submit to the First UIC Finance Conference! cvent.me/2k7PXE The conference will be held in Chicago, May 17-18, 2024. We've received many great submissions so it's shaping up to be a great conference --- don't miss out!

Thank you very much to everyone who submitted a paper to the First UIC Finance Conference! We received 317 submissions (!), and we are looking forward to reviewing them all together with our amazing program committee to create a great conference program!

Entrepreneurship PhD students: apply for the 2024 NBER Entrepreneurship Research Boot Camp (week of July 15th). My student experience 10+(!) years ago was instrumental to my career. Thanks to @NBER and David Robinson for keeping it going. conference.nber.org/confsubmit/bac…

Submit your paper to the NBER NBER Entrepreneurship Working Group held on July 15th: conference.nber.org/confsubmit/bac… Deadline: March 21st

The Finance Dept at UIC is hiring a Non-Tenure Track faculty member this Spring! NTT faculty play a key role w/ their contributions in teaching, service, and often also research. If you are interested in joining us, please apply by March 1: ssrn.com/index.cfm/en/j…

It is super sad to see visionary figures pass. But I am happy the community is celebrating all of the contributions Mike Jensen made to academic finance. He founded the JFE and made it WORK. Gene Fama has written a great piece here: promarket.org/2024/04/04/mic…

🚨 Journal of Corporate Finance Call 🚨 Hosted by Bocconi & co-sponsored by CEPR, JCF is thrilled to announce the call for our June 2025 conference on Information, Contracts, and Firms. Keynote: Michael Ewens Learn more: neeley.tcu.edu/jcf-conference… Please retweet! Deadline in Nov 18!

Sunday (Dec 15, 11:59 pm CT) is the last day to submit to the Second UIC Finance Conference! cvent.me/47QXw9 The conference will be held in Chicago, May 16-17, 2025. We've received many great submissions so it's shaping up to be a great conference --- don't miss out!

Why is Capital Market Union so hard to do and how do we go around the entrenched opposition? My post today siliconcontinent.com/p/how-to-build…

📢I'm pleased to announce the 1st American Finance Association Junior Faculty Mentoring Program (JFMP) event, which I'm co-organizing w/ Veronika Pool (Vanderbilt University). The JFMP is hosting a day-long mentoring workshop at the '26 AFA meetings in Philadelphia. 1/3

The murder of Charlie Kirk is a double tragedy. The first is a man’s life cut short, his friends and family bereft, his voice stilled. The second is that the costs of speaking up and speaking out have now risen dramatically. Not just democracy but civilization falters when people