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The Center for Advanced Studies on the Foundations of Law and Finance (LawFin) is Germany's first interdisciplinary economics and jurisprudential research group. Located @goetheuni.bsky.social, funded by @dfg.de. | www.lawfin.uni-frankfurt.de
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🎓 Monday’s #LawFin Research Seminar:
Fellow @edomartino.bsky.social (University of Amsterdam) will present “A Market for Limes: The Information View on Green Banking Regulation.”
👉 Join on-site or online: bit.ly/SeminarMartino
#GreenFinance #Sustainability #Banking #Research #Seminar
📢 Call for Papers
5th Conference on the Law and Finance of Private Equity and Venture Capital

👉 bit.ly/CfP_PE-VC-Co...

📝 Deadline for submissions: 30 January 2026
📆 Conference date: 25–26 June 2026
📍 Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

Organizers: LawFin, Bocconi, LSE, Oxford, UPenn, ECGI
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🎓 LawFin Research Seminar today:
Our Fellow Alessandro Romano (Bocconi University) presents “Visual Saliency and Investment Decisions,” offering fresh insights into how attention influences investor behavior.
👉 Join in person or online: bit.ly/SeminarRomano
#law #finance #research #seminar
⏳ 3 days to go!
This Friday: the ECFR Symposium 2025 at Goethe University Frankfurt + online!
Topics:
• Capital markets in a de-globalizing world
• EU’s 28th company law regime
ℹ️ bit.ly/ECFRProgram
👉 Register here: lnkd.in/enkth9yw
#ECFR #Conference
@degruyterbrill.bsky.social @trgrtbs.bsky.social
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LawFin Director Rainer Haselmann’s paper on QE was discussed by our Fellow José-Luis Peydró at the 10th #ECB Annual Research Conference, opened by Christine Lagarde.

📑 Paper: ssrn.com/abstract=400...
📋 Programme: www.ecb.europa.eu/press/confer...

#finance #monetarypolicy #research #events
🇧🇪 Kicking off in Brussels today!
At the launch of the workshop series "The Economics of Banking in the Single Market", hosted by the European Commission, @trgrtbs.bsky.social discussed Dirk Schoenmaker’s talk on EU banking.
#banking #finance #EU #financialregulation
Last week, LawFin Director Tobias Tröger spoke at the Ca’ Foscari #conference on Sept 11, 2025: “Proportionating rules on bank crisis prevention and management to the case of retail banks”, discussing "The Role of Deposit Guarantee Schemes."

🔗 Agenda & details: www.unive.it/data/16437/1...
Proportionating rules on bank crisis prevention and management to the case of retail banks - Unive
conferenza/convegno
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📢 19th ECFR Symposium on 26 Sept 2025

Join us at Goethe Uni Frankfurt (or online) for debates on:
• Capital markets in a de-globalizing world
• A 28th EU company law regime

ℹ️ Full program: bit.ly/ECFRProgram
🎟️ Register now: bit.ly/ECFRRegistra...

#ECFR #LawFin #Event
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More #Fellows at LawFin this fall!
We’re delighted to host José-Luis Peydró (LUISS University) & Alessandro Romano (Bocconi University), who further enrich our interdisciplinary work in law & finance 💯
ℹ️ www.lawfin.uni-frankfurt.de/fellows
#welcome #research #law #finance #interdisciplinary
Exciting news: @bhavyaas.bsky.social‬ has joined LawFin as a #Fellow!
Bhavyaa will spend a year with us in Frankfurt contributing to our research community.
👉 www.lawfin.uni-frankfurt.de/fellows
#welcome #research
🎓 LawFin is hiring!
We're looking for a postdoc in law & finance (start date: ASAP).

📅 Application deadline: Sept 15, 2025

ℹ️ Details here: www.ssrn.com/index.cfm/en...

Please feel free to share with anyone who might be interested!
#Jobs #Academia #Postdoc #LawFin #Research
📕 LawFin Working Paper

“Can U.S. Venture Capital Contracts Be Transplanted into Europe? Systematic Evidence from Germany and Italy”
by @lucaenriques.bsky.social, Casimiro Antonio Nigro, @trgrtbs.bsky.social

👉 Part of a broader project on #VC, #CorporateLaw & #CorporateGovernance: bit.ly/LFWP58
From London to Paris: The 15th NYU-LawFin-SAFE-ESCP Conference offered insights into financial regulation, systemic risk & digital markets.
Here’s what the full program looked like: bit.ly/LBF25_Program
@escp.bsky.social
@safefrankfurt.bsky.social
🔍 Right after: the Global Corporate Governance Colloquium (GCGC) kept the momentum going — also in London.
LawFin was involved as a partner, highlighting our role in the global law & finance research community.
Innovation, incentives, and legal design: the “Law & Finance of Private Equity and Venture Capital” conference at LSE gathered leading scholars for high-level exchange.
LawFin co-hosted with LSE, UPenn, @ox.ac.uk & ECGI — with Director Tobias Tröger on site.
🔗 bit.ly/PE-VC-Con2025
Next stop: Madrid! Today, Rainer Haselmann presents his paper “Interest Rate Risk, Deposit Rates, and Financial Stability” at the Fifth Conference on Financial Stability @bde.es.
🎥 Watch the livestream here: www.youtube.com/live/RlAROeg...
On June 10, LawFin Director Rainer Haselmann joined the ECB–NY Fed Conference on Non-Bank Financial Institutions 2025 to discuss “Synthetic, but How Much Risk Transfer?” by Alex Osberghaus (UZH, SFI) & Glenn Schepens (ECB).
🎥 Watch the full recording (Day 1): bit.ly/ECBConference
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Together with @lawfinfrankfurt.bsky.social and @cepr.org, we invite you to the upcoming Online Workshop on "Restructuring and Insolvency – Opportunities for Reform in Europe".

📅19 June 2025

🕒03:00 - 04:00 PM CEST

📍Online via Zoom

👉More info: safe-frankfurt.de/news-media/e... #EconSky #LawSky
In today’s LawFin #Research #Seminar, Andreas Knetsch (@safefrankfurt.bsky.social‬) explores how machine learning and text analysis can help predict which firms succeed after bankruptcy.
📖 “Dictionaries for Post-bankruptcy Success Prediction”
📍 On-site & via Zoom: bit.ly/SeminarKnetsch
A vibrant month for the LawFin Center!
June brings a series of #events we are proud to host or support – covering key topics at the intersection of #law and #finance.
📅 See what’s coming up: bit.ly/LawFinEvents
Want to know how EU banks respond to tighter reporting rules? 📊
At today’s LawFin Research #Seminar, our fellow Felix Corell (VU Amsterdam) presents:
“Borrowing Beyond Bounds” – on compliance costs, lending behavior & pricing.
Tune in this afternoon: bit.ly/SeminarCorell
Additional #Fellows at the LawFin Center!
We’re grateful to have Felix Corell (VU Amsterdam), Philippe Mueller (Warwick BS), Alex Stomper (@humboldtuni.bsky.social), and Christian Wagner (@wuvienna.bsky.social) contributing their expertise to our community.
#LawFin #Research
📢 Today at the LawFin Research Seminar:
"Non-Financial Liabilities and Effective Corporate Restructuring" with @bobecker.bsky.social (@sthlmschoolofecon.bsky.social).
Our fellow explains how leases & supplier contracts can determine the fate of firms in distress.
Don’t miss it 👉 bit.ly/SeminarBecker
Our research #seminar series is in full swing: This week begins with insights from Alex Stomper (@humboldtuni.bsky.social) on climate finance and fossil fuel lending 🌱📊 bit.ly/SeminarAStom...
LawFin is looking forward to welcoming you today—or at one of our upcoming sessions!