Joan Farre-Mensa

📢Call for papers for the ESADE Entrepreneurial Finance Conference, organized by Vicente Bermejo, Martí Guasch, and me in Barcelona on March 11–12, 2027. Confirmed speakers: Michael Ewens, Sabrina Howell, Ramana Nanda & David Robinson. Submit by June 30: form.jotform.com/261373711218352

The @workshopefi Fellows program is accepting pre-applications for the 2026 cohort. Deadline is June 1. We support 10 PhDs working in entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial finance, and innovation. 🧵

This was a super interesting conversation. Jesus is a deep thinker, and here he discusses some of the most pressing issues of our time. Highly recommended!

The Finance Dept at UIC is hiring Non-Tenure Track faculty this Spring! NTT faculty play a key role w/ their contributions in teaching, mentoring, service, and often also research. If you are interested in joining us, please apply by January 31: uic.csod.com/ux/ats/careers…

Monday Dec 15 is the last day to submit your papers to the 3rd UIC Finance conference! go.uic.edu/UIC_FinanceCon…

The UIC Finance Dept is holding our 3rd Finance Conference: May 15-16, 2026! Prof. Lauren Cohen (HBS) will deliver the keynote address, & we look forward to great papers & discussants! Submit your paper go.uic.edu/UIC_FinanceCon… by December 15 — all Finance areas welcome!

The murder of Charlie Kirk is a double tragedy. The first is a man’s life cut short, his friends and family bereft, his voice stilled. The second is that the costs of speaking up and speaking out have now risen dramatically. Not just democracy but civilization falters when people become afraid to express themselves or become the public face and voice of an idea. In a civilized society, speaking up and speaking out should not make you fear for your life. In that sense, this death is an act of terror. It makes every thoughtful public figure who writes and speaks worry that they might be next. That this happened to someone who loved to engage in calm debate makes the whole thing even sadder.

📢I'm pleased to announce the 1st American Finance Association Junior Faculty Mentoring Program (JFMP) event, which I'm co-organizing w/ Veronika Pool (@VanderbiltU). The JFMP is hosting a day-long mentoring workshop at the '26 AFA meetings in Philadelphia. 1/3

Why is Capital Market Union so hard to do and how do we go around the entrenched opposition? My post today siliconcontinent.com/p/how-to-build…

Are you --- or do you know --- a pre-doc or a late-stage PhD student interested in working on an entrepreneurship project in Spain w/ Vicente Bermejo & Marti Guasch (ESADE), and myself? Then see the link below! cc: @predoc_org dropbox.com/scl/fi/0btsjqw…

Sunday (Dec 15, 11:59 pm CT) is the last day to submit to the Second UIC Finance Conference! cvent.me/47QXw9 The conference will be held in Chicago, May 16-17, 2025. We've received many great submissions so it's shaping up to be a great conference --- don't miss out!

Michelle Lowry (@mbl3, Drexel), Christine Parlour (UC Berkeley), Neil Pearson (UIUC), Gordon Phillips (Dartmouth), Veronika Pool (Indiana), Adam Reed (UNC), Avanidhar Subrahmanyam (UCLA), Michael Weber (U Chicago), & Russ Wermers (Maryland)!

Big thanks to our outstanding program committee: Heitor Almeida (UIUC), Mike Ewens (@startupecon, Columbia), Xavier Giroud (Columbia), Gustavo Grullon (Rice), Huseyin Gulen (Purdue), Bing Han (Toronto), Chris James (Florida), Robert Korajczyk (Northwestern), ...

The UIC Finance Dept is holding our 2nd Finance Conference: May 16-17, 2025! Prof. Itay Goldstein (Wharton) will deliver the keynote address, & we look forward to great papers & discussants! Submit your paper cvent.me/47QXw9 by December 15 — all Finance areas welcome!

🚨 @JCorpFin Call 🚨 Hosted by Bocconi & co-sponsored by CEPR, JCF is thrilled to announce the call for our June 2025 conference on Information, Contracts, and Firms. Keynote: @startupecon Learn more: neeley.tcu.edu/jcf-conference… Please retweet! Deadline in Nov 18!

It is super sad to see visionary figures pass. But I am happy the community is celebrating all of the contributions Mike Jensen made to academic finance. He founded the JFE and made it WORK. Gene Fama has written a great piece here: promarket.org/2024/04/04/mic…

The Finance Dept at UIC is hiring a Non-Tenure Track faculty member this Spring! NTT faculty play a key role w/ their contributions in teaching, service, and often also research. If you are interested in joining us, please apply by March 1: ssrn.com/index.cfm/en/j…

Submit your paper to the @nberpubs NBER Entrepreneurship Working Group held on July 15th: conference.nber.org/confsubmit/bac… Deadline: March 21st

Entrepreneurship PhD students: apply for the 2024 @nberpubs Entrepreneurship Research Boot Camp (week of July 15th). My student experience 10+(!) years ago was instrumental to my career. Thanks to @NBER and @robinson_fuqua for keeping it going. conference.nber.org/confsubmit/bac…

Thank you very much to everyone who submitted a paper to the First UIC Finance Conference! We received 317 submissions (!), and we are looking forward to reviewing them all together with our amazing program committee to create a great conference program!