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Andreas Fuster @fuster.bsky.social · 17d

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Centre for Economic Policy Research @cepr.org · 18d

📢 #CallForPapers - BIS-CEPR-Gerzensee-SFI Conference on Financial Intermediation 2026
Deadline to submit a paper: 21 November 2025
Learn more and submit a paper: cepr.org/events/bis-c...
#EconSky #EconConf

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Centre for Economic Policy Research @cepr.org · 18d

📢 #CallForPapers - BIS-CEPR-Gerzensee-SFI Conference on Financial Intermediation 2026
Deadline to submit a paper: 21 November 2025
Learn more and submit a paper: cepr.org/events/bis-c...
#EconSky #EconConf

Marius Brülhart @mariusbrulhart.bsky.social · Mar 29

Als Teil seines "Entlastungspakets 27" will der Bund das Budget des SNF @snf-fns-ch.bsky.social um 10% kürzen.
Wäre das wirklich klug, ausgerchnet in dem Moment, wo uns die US-Regierung das Feld freimacht im internationalen Wettbewerb um Top-Talente (👇)?
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...

75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving

More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.

www.nature.com

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Andreas Fuster @fuster.bsky.social · Mar 13

An excellent initiative!

Isabel Schnabel 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @isabelschnabel.bsky.social · Mar 13

Good news for researchers - don't miss out!

We just launched a pilot project @ecb.europa.eu to share anonymised data on bank balance sheets and interest rates for loans and deposits in the euro area. 1/2

www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/dat...

ECB launches pilot project for research access to confidential statistical data

The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank of the European Union countries which have adopted the euro. Our main task is to maintain price stability in the euro area and so preserve the purch...

www.ecb.europa.eu

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Isabel Schnabel 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @isabelschnabel.bsky.social · Mar 13

Good news for researchers - don't miss out!

We just launched a pilot project @ecb.europa.eu to share anonymised data on bank balance sheets and interest rates for loans and deposits in the euro area. 1/2

www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/dat...

ECB launches pilot project for research access to confidential statistical data

The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank of the European Union countries which have adopted the euro. Our main task is to maintain price stability in the euro area and so preserve the purch...

www.ecb.europa.eu

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Andreas Fuster @fuster.bsky.social · Feb 8

Call for papers, submission deadline February 21 (i.e., soon!):

Sixth annual SNB-CIF Conference on Cryptoassets and Financial Innovation, to be held in Zurich on June 20, with keynote speaker Urban Jermann (Wharton).

www.snb.ch/en/services-...

#econsky

SNB-CIF Conference on Cryptoassets and Financial Innovation, 20 June 2025

www.snb.ch

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International and Monetary Economics Network @intmon.bsky.social · Jan 29

Highly policy-relevant!

"Pricing Liquidity Support: A PLB for Switzerland" by Monnet, Niepelt, and Taudien

For instance, they estimate that the too-big-to-fail status allowed UBS Group AG alone to gain at least USD 2.9 billion in 2022.

repec.vwiit.ch/dp/dp2501.pdf

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James Vickery @vickeryjames.bsky.social · Jan 9

Call for papers alert -- The Philly Fed and University of Delaware are hosting the second edition of the Fintech and Financial Institutions conference in April, featuring great research and a keynote by Stefan Nagel -- submit by Jan 14, you wont regret it :) www.philadelphiafed.org/calendar-of-...

2025 Fintech and Financial Institutions Research Conference

The Fintech and Financial Institutions Research Conference is a forum for presenting and discussing current research on the interlinkages of the fintech sector and the broader financial system.

www.philadelphiafed.org

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Andreas Fuster @fuster.bsky.social · Jan 8

For those who didn't make it to #ASSA2025: strongly recommend @sendhil.bsky.social's AEA distinguished lecture, available at www.aeaweb.org/webcasts/202... (starting at minute 16)!

American Economic Association: AEA Excellence Awards and Distinguished Lecture

www.aeaweb.org

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Mihail Velikov @mvelikov.bsky.social · Dec 17

An academic paper has excellent empirical evidence & hypotheses that perfectly match the patterns in the data.

One catch: AI wrote the hypotheses after seeing the results.

Should this matter?

New paper w/ Robert Novy-Marx on AI-Powered (Finance) Scholarship🧵

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · Dec 5

Attending #ASSA2025?

Want to know how to navigate your options with respect to hotels, food, & sessions given SF hotel workers' strike?

@shirkandsteal.bsky.social @jennifercohen.bsky.social & I have you covered. Blog w/sign up for email updates.
#EconSky
aaronsojourner.org/hotel-worker...

Are you planning to attend the 2025 ASSA meetings in San Francisco? All ASSA activities have been planned for three ASSA headquarters hotels. Employees at two of these hotels – the Hilton San Francisco Union Square and the San Francisco Marriott Union Square – are on strike and asking people to not meet, eat, nor sleep in the hotels. At the third headquarters hotel – the Parc 55 by Hilton – employees voted to authorize their leaders to call a strike at any moment.

Yesterday, ASSA stated that allied associations can move planned sessions to alternative physical locations in San Francisco at their own expense and ASSA will facilitate updating of location information within their program system. This means there is a path to meaningful participation in the conference without crossing picket lines.

Did you book your housing through ASSA? If so, then you are booked at a hotel where workers are either currently on strike, where they authorized a strike, or where the union says there’s a real risk employees will be on strike in early January. All the ASSA’s preferred hotels for housing are in one of these three categories, as detailed below. The hotel workers union has asked people not to patronize these hotels.

What can a social scientist do as we face a conflict between our desires to:

participate in the ASSA annual meeting in San Francisco taking place at hotels—both for meeting space and lodging—where workers currently are on strike or at risk of striking,
respect the people employed by the hotels and their request of each of us to not meet, sleep, or eat in striking hotels as part of their wider local and national campaign to lift the industry’s job quality?
This blog walks through background and different strategies available to each of us.

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Emilia Garcia-Appendini @megapp.bsky.social · Oct 22

The submission deadline for the BIS-CEPR-Gerzensee-SFI conference on Financial Intermediation (formerly the "Lenzerheide conference") is October 31. Submit your papers! Call for papers here: mailchi.mp/cepr/bis-cep...

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Toni Whited 😷 @toniwhited.bsky.social · Oct 5

The JFE is doing a special issue on innovations in the financial system! The call for papers is here:

www.sciencedirect.com/journal/jour...

Andreas Fuster will be the guest editor handling the papers.

Call for papers - Journal of Financial Economics | ScienceDirect.com by ElsevierScienceDirect

Read the latest articles of Journal of Financial Economics at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature

www.sciencedirect.com

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