The CCFin blog

Do our personal experiences of local housing price growth influence our consumption decisions? Benjamin Appianin, Research Associate at Cambridge Centre for Finance (CCFin) and Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance (CERF), helps answer this question by showing that households spend more (less) on nondurables and services when they have experienced higher (lower) house price growth in their locality.

Cambridge Judge Associate Professor and Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance (CERF) Research Fellow Dr Jenny Chu looks at how labour unions influence the quality of corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting, shedding light on the strategic role of non-financial disclosure in managing labour relations.

Explore our study on optimising decentralised public finance, focusing on efficient allocation of public goods across regions to enhance overall welfare.

Marwin Mönkemeyer, Research Associate at Cambridge Centre for Finance (CCFin) and Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance (CERF), blogs about the capacity of institutional investors to address biodiversity risks through their investment practices.

Jaffe Greenwald, CERF post-doctoral researcher, develops a new measure for an equity mutual fund’s return performance. Jaffe finds that one in 4 mutual funds outperform a random risk-matched portfolio. In addition, mutual funds with a history of outperforming tend to maintain their outperformance.

Explore the dynamics of the world of partnerships, highlighting their distinct features, tax structures, and the vital role they play in the business landscape, especially in professional fields.

Explore the critical issue of biodiversity loss and its implications for human well-being, business operations, and economic prosperity in our comprehensive resource.

Narine Lalafaryan, CERF Fellow at Cambridge Judge Business School, blogs about the critical interplay between corporate finance and governance in today's volatile market. Understand the implications of recent financial crises and trends.

Sofie R Waltl, CERF Fellow at Cambridge Judge Business School, blogs about the implications of the Berlin Mietendeckel, a controversial rent freeze policy enacted in 2020 and swiftly overturned by the Constitutional Court.

Explore the impact of financial development on biodiversity loss in Italy and learn how social capital influences financial growth.

By analysing a sample of 803 public M&A deals spanning over 3 decades, CERF research associate Luxi (Lucy) Wang studies the impact of M&As on innovative labours by examining inventors’ turnovers and productivity changes.

Thies Lindenthal and Kahshin Leow cover the enhancing of real estate investment trust return forecasts by the use of machine learning.