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On Thursday, November 29th, FUNCAS organizes a public presentation of number 157 of its journal Papeles de Economia Española. This special issue entitled “Economic Analysis of the Digital Revolution” and associated digital e-book features a study of the current state of the academic literature on crowdfunding by Car3fin member Pablo Ruíz Verdú and Carlos Bellón (“Crowdfundig, what do we know?”).
The act will take place on FUNCAS Salón de Actos, at Edificio Foro, planta baja on Caballero de Gracia, 28 at 17:20.
Pablo Ruíz Verdú, amongst other contributors, will deliver a short presentation and a round table on the challenges of the [&hellip

This seminar by David F. Hendry (University of Oxford) is the next instance of the “New Solutions with Big Data” Seminar Series, sponsored by the UC3M-Banco Santander Big Data in Finance Institute. It will be held on Friday, June 16th at 9:30 am in room 18.1.A12 of building number 18 (Carmen Martin Gaite) of the Getafe Campus of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Attendance is free. Please RSVP to nagutier@pa.uc3m.es. Abstract: `Big Data’ provide both opportunities and hazards. The former arise from the vast amounts of potential information; the latter from the substantial chance of finding spurious connections. An approach [&hellip

The 8th Annual Conference of the Spanish Association of Law and Economics (Asociación Española de Derecho y Economía, AEDE) will be held on June 29-30, 2017 at the Puerta de Toledo Campus of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, in downtown Madrid, Spain. We are pleased to announce that the keynote speaker will be Colin Mayer, the Peter Moores Professor of Management Studies at Saïd Business School. He is an expert on all aspects of corporate finance, governance and taxation, the regulation of financial institutions and the role of the corporation in contemporary society. Professor Mayer will be giving an address [&hellip

The article Search for Yield coauthored by our colleague David Martínez and professor Rafael Repullo has been accepted for publication in Econometrica, an A+ publications in Economics (top 5 among 345 JCR journals in Economics usisng the Article Influence Score metrics). Congratulations David!

Prof. Itziar Castelló, Assistant Professor of Management at UC3M Business, has been awarded with the Best Paper Award for her paper “Strategic CSR Communication between Fashion, Affordance and Emergence” presented in the EUPRERA 2016 conference

The I Madrid Barcelona Workshop on Banking and Corporate Finance (“Mad Bar”) will be hosted by our school at its Puerta de Toledo campus on Friday, September 30th. Researchers from CEMFI, IESE, Universtat Pompeu Fabra and Universidad Carlos III will meet to discuss working papers on monetary policy, securitization, liquidity standards and bank regulation and competition. For a detailed program see the workshop webpage www.madbarworkshop.com

A paper written by our PhD student Silvina Rubio (advised by car3fin member Jose Marín) on the effect of share repurchases (“The Bright Side of Stock Repurchases”) was referenced in an article recently published in the Wall St Journal (here). Congratulations Silvina!

Our colleague José Penalva has just published the book “Algorithmic and High-Frequency Trading” in the well respected editorial Cambrigde University Press (Amazon link Here). The book is coauthored with our former colleague Álvaro Cartea and Sebastian Jaimunga. We hope you find it as interesting as we do. Congratulations José!

Our colleague Bing Guo has published the article “Investment, Duration, and Exit Strategies for Corporate and Independent Venture Capital-Backed Start-Ups” coauthored with  Yun Lou, and David Pérez-Castrillo in the last issue of the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy

The article “The strategic behavior of firms with debt” coauthored by our colleague Anna Toldra and Jerome Reboul has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Financial & Quantitative Analysis. This is the journal with the highest score (weighted average of 5-year Impact Factor and Article Influence Score) among the A Journals in Finance (fourth among the overall list of all journals in finance). Congratulations Anna, for this achievement!