Welcome to CFCM
The Centre for Finance, Credit and Macroeconomics (CFCM) is a research centre focusing on financial markets, macro-economic cycles, consumer and corporate credit, based in the School of Economics at The University of Nottingham.
CFCM receives external funding from the UK government (BERR), research councils (ESRC), the private sector (Experian, Fitch Ratings) and charities (Nuffield Foundation, the British Academy).
CFCM research focuses on the operation of financial markets, monetary policy, household and corporate finance and macro-economic dynamics. The centre specialises in the analysis of high frequency data from markets, households and firms to understand indebtedness and financial distress.
The centre also investigates the transmission mechanisms of monetary policy through credit channels, exploring the behaviour of corporations and households when credit is constrained, and the effect of credit on house prices and business cycles.
CFCM has formed close research links with a number of similar research institutions (Institute for Fiscal Studies, EUI Finance and Consumption) and central banks (Bank of England, European Central Bank, Federal Reserve).
Latest news
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- Professor Paul Mizen from the School of Economics has been awarded £1.1million from the ESRC to look into the quality of management practices across UK businesses.
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- 18 January 2019
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- Sir Andrew Dilnot, who presents BBC Radio 4's programme about statistics, More or Less, spoke about the accuracy of data in a public lecture entitled, Numbers and public policy: why data really matters.
- Date:
- 26 October 2017
Events
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- 21 March 2019 (14:00-15:30)
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- A01 Highfield House
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- Firm heterogeneity, credit spreads and monetary policy (A01, Highfield House)
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- 28 March 2019 (14:00-15:30)
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- C43 Sir Clive Granger
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- Labour reallocation and wage growth: Evidence from East Germany (C43, SCGB)
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- 04 April 2019 (14:00-15:30)
- Location:
- A40 Sir Clive Granger Building
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- Latent variables analysis in structural models: A new decomposition of the Kalman smoother (A40, SCGB)
You can view details of our previous seminars/events.
Conferences
There are currently no upcoming conferences.
Discussion papers
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- Michael Bleaney and Mo Tian
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- Spiros Bougheas and Tianxi Wang consider the case of multiple project finance and offer a novel rationale for outside equity.
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- Kevin Lee, James Morley, Kalvinder Shields and Madeleine Sui-Lay Tan
The centre is part of the University's Governance and Public Policy Research Priority Area.