We are delighted to inform you that our colleague Pablo Ruiz-Verdu has won the best paper award on regulation in the last Foro de Finanzas (http://22financeforum.unizar.es/awards/). His paper “Too Big to Discipline” is co-authored by Patricia Boyallian (former UC3M Ph D student and now at Aalto University School of Business) Congratulations Pablo and Patricia for maintaing the long tradition of winning at least one award in every Foro de Finanzas!

We are happy to announce that our colleague Jose Penalva has received one of the prestigious BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge awards.  You can read all about it here

In the 2014 QS World University Ranking, the Business Department at Carlos III is ranked among the best 100 institutions world wide in Finance & Accounting. It is the only Spanish institution that appears in this ranking

The article entitled “A Clash of Governance Logics: Foreign Ownership and Board Monitoring” coauthored by our colleagues Monica Lopez-Puertas and Kurt Desender, jointly with our friends Ruth Aguilera (Norteastern Univesity) and Rafel Crespí (Universitat de les Illes Balears) has been accepted for publication in the Strategic Management Journal (an A+ journal in Management)

José M. Marín and Benjamin Golez (2014). “Price support by bank-affiliated mutual funds”. Journal of Financial Economics, forthcoming. Jordi Surroca, Josep A. Tribó and Shaker Zahra (2013). “Stakeholder Pressure on MNEs and the Transfer of Socially Irresponsible Practices to Subsidiaries”. Academy of Management Journal, 56(2), 549-572. Paola Sapienza,Anna Toldra‐Simats and Luigi Zingales (2013). “Understanding trust”. The Economic Journal, 123(573), 1313-1332. David Martínez-Miera and Rafael Repullo (2010). “Does Competition Reduce the Risk of Bank Failure?”. Review of Financial Studies, 23(10), 3638-3664. Juan-José Ganuza and José Penalva (2010). “Signal Orderings based on Dispersion and the Supply of Private Information in Auctions”. Econometrica, 78(3), 1007-1030. [&hellip