📢We're hiring! Come join our excellent Finance group. We offer a fantastic research environment, attractive teaching loads and great research support. Manchester is a vibrant, affordable city with much culture. jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?…

📢 Call for Papers! 1st PhD Conference at Imperial College Business School happening on April 25-26. Submit your papers (or extended abstract) by January 25, 2024. sites.google.com/view/icbs-phd-…

Congratulations to the many schools across the NARTI and their DTPs.

🆕 Working paper: Mispricing, Learning, and Price Discovery with Sungjun Cho & Tianzong Wang. We extend the information share framework to capture the intraday patterns of single market self-learning & multiple markets cross-learning SSRN papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… #microstructure

🆕 Working paper : Asymmetric Co-fluctuations of U.S. Output and Unemployment: Friedman’s Plucking Model and Okun’s Law with Mohammad Dehghani & Sungjun Cho. SSRN papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

GDP is estimated to have shown no growth in July to September (Quarter 3): ▪️ services fell (-0.1%) ▪️ construction grew (+0.1%) ▪️ production was flat (0.0%) ➡️ ons.gov.uk/releases/gdpfi…

Delighted to share a new paper written with Francisco Pinto Avalos & Mike Bowe. We argue that once you account for global factors, there is little evidence of contagion. Revisiting the pricing impact of commodity market spillovers on equity... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Following the REF initial decisions consultation, we're announcing some updates - most importantly that the next REF will be REF 2029. This is in recognition of the complexities for HEIs in preparing for the exercise.

The University of Manchester has appointed Professor @DuncanIvison as its next President & Vice-Chancellor. He will formally take up his role on 1st August 2024.

Just in case you had any doubts about the plans to support infrastructure in the North post HS2...

Want to know why Michelle Donelan was forced to make an extraordinary apology to two academics earlier today? It's a bizarre tale involving Policy Exchange, a secret government dossier and a libel case paid for by the taxpayer A short thread (1/10)

£4.7 million investment in AI and trust capability 🔗 The University of Manchester Faculty of Humanities has been awarded £2.73 million to enhance its research and teaching capabilities over the next five years in the critical areas of AI, trust and society. Read more: ow.ly/5KJt50RBaqU

Sunak backs away from radical reform of graduate visas on.ft.com/3V7erFl

NEW: Rishi Sunak is confronted about Partygate by a worker who lost his mother during the Covid pandemic. “How can anyone trust you, or the party, after things like this?”

the room next door - Rishi Sunak and the Eye Roller

TRUMP IS FOUND GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS.

Donald Trump found guilty of falsifying business records, becoming first ex-president to be convicted of a crime bbc.in/3RbSItp

⚛️🤩The University of Manchester Graphene: a massive surprise and a massive delight. Listen to the most recent episode of Talk 200, where our experts dive into the University’s history of path-breaking research delivering truly radical solutions. #UoM200 Listen now 👉 manchester.ac.uk/discover/bicen…

For friends around the world asking how the general election campaign in the UK is going: here's a video of a government minister calling a journalist who's live presenting news about a disastrous poll for the government. He hung up. 31 days to go...

Festival of Business: Gaining the Edge⚡ At this free one-day taster programme, third sector and not-for-profit teams will gain insights into ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance), leadership, strategic productivity, and digital marketing. Register: ow.ly/YJcE50S3U6a