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Rebuilding Ukraine’s financial sector

An executive education programme at Cambridge Judge Business School inspired by the National Bank of Ukraine has designed a strategy for rebuilding the country’s financial sector. As this blueprint is developed further, participants reflect on the programme and how it…

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Andrei Kirilenko and Kate Shcheglova-Goldfinch of the NBU holding the CJBS Executive Education certificates of participants.

Impact of COVID-19 on fintech industry

New report reveals the impact of the global pandemic on fintech firms and details potential of the industry to improve financial inclusion. The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School, the World Bank…

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Impact of COVID-19 on fintech industry.

A greener Scotland: Cambridge Judge fellow named chair of green taskforce

Cambridge Judge Fellow David Pitt-Watson is named Chair of a new Scottish Taskforce for Green and Sustainable Financial Services. David Pitt-Watson, a Fellow (Finance) at Cambridge Judge Business School, has been named Chair of a new Scottish Taskforce for Green…

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Cross-country stock market comovement: a macro perspective

by Dr Elisa Faraglia, Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance Fellow In the post WW2 period, the cross-country correlations between the stock markets in developed economies were fairly low, implying significant potential benefits from diversification. Beginning in the mid 1990s,…

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Financial Times: Why aren’t we trying to create a financial sector for all?

David Pitt-Watson, Research Fellow at Cambridge Judge Business School, is quoted in the Financial Times article. We are “simply not having [the] debate about the purpose of the finance industry”, says David Pitt-Watson, who teaches the subject at Cambridge. “Part…

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Why do green stocks outperform?

by Dr Mehrshad Motahari, Research Associate, Cambridge Centre for Finance and Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance Green, or environmentally friendly, companies have generated significantly higher stock returns compared to their brown peers in recent years. This gap in the…

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Demand for information

by Dr Shiqi Chen, Research Associate, Cambridge Centre for Finance and Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance Shiqi Chen We are entering into an era of Big Data, in which the demand and supply of data and information are growing…

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Impact and engagement at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance

Each of our research centres has unique ways to engage with non-academic organisations and, through that, to generate real world impact. This month we are sharing the work of the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance at Cambridge Judge Business School.…

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Climate finance

by Dr Mehrshad Motahari, Research Associate, Cambridge Centre for Finance and Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance The risk of climate change and its potentially drastic consequences has reshaped many industries in recent years. The financial industry has been no…

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Firms’ capital structure dynamics, market competition, and industry dynamics

by Shiqi Chen, Research Associate, Cambridge Centre for Finance and Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance Debt-equity conflict is undoubtfully one of the core paradigms of corporate finance research. It is well-known that, once debt is in place, the misalignment…

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