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!