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The Crowdfunding Professionals Association will hold its 2017 Annual Crowdfinance Summit on April 20th in Washington DC. In attendance will be some of the most prominent figures in finance, FinTech, and securities governance, focused on the outlook and opportunities for Crowdfinance this year and beyond. Details on the meeting can be found here

The Review of Financial Studies (RFS) announces the creation of a novel two-stage editorial process designed to encourage researchers to engage in innovative research on the emerging topic of FinTech. The process is closely related to a “registered reports” format with a first-stage workshop to review accepted proposals and a second-stage conference to evaluation final papers. The RFS sponsoring editors are Itay Goldstein, Wei Jiang, and Andrew Karolyi. The deadline for proposals is March 15, 2017 and the workshop to review paper proposals is scheduled for May 25, 2017 at Columbia University in New York. The Call for Proposals may [&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 UC3M – Banco Santander Institute of Financial Big Data (IFiBiD) organises on Friday, December 16th 2016 from 9:30 to 11:15 the first workshop on its “New Solutions with Big Data” series. Asunción M. Gomez (UPM) and Wolfram Rozas (IBM) will present the seminar entitled “Application of the IBM Watson Ecosystem for providing Technology Intelligence Services to Small and Medium Enterprises&#

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 UC3M and INDEM organise the workshop “Digital transformation and social change: corporate challenges and future agenda” that will take place on May 25th 2016 at University Carlos III of Madrid, Puerta de Toledo Campus from 8h30 to 12h00. Key note lectures will be Isabel Aguilera (entrepreneur, former Google GM) and Mikkel Flyverbom (Copenhagen Business School). There will be a round table with the participation of Mar Alonso (UAM), Maria Jose Alvarez (UC3M), Carlos Bellón (UC3M), Itziar Castelló (UC3M), Laura Illia (IE) and Charlene Zietsma (Schulich Business School). The invitation for the workshop can be found here and a CV [&hellip

Our colleague María Gutiérrez and her co-author María Isabel Saez, presented their working paper entitled “The promise of reward crowdfunding” at a Law seminar in Universitat Pomepeu Fabra on February 16,

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

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