Workshops and conferences

The Red Española de Economistas del Desarrollo (SPANDE) held the Encuentro sobre Evaluación de Impacto en la Cooperación Española: Oportunidades y Desafíos  on October 21 at CUNEF Universidad. The event brought together specialists from academia, public administration, and third-sector organizations. The workshop was organized by María Hernández de Benito, professor in the Department of Economics at CUNEF Universidad, and Jorge García Hombrados (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid).The aim of the meeting was to strengthen ties between academia, public institutions, and third-sector organizations regarding the use of impact evaluation in development cooperation.

The meeting took place within the framework of the III Workshop on Development Economics in Spain, held on October 21 and 22 at the Fundación Ramón Areces (Madrid) and organized by SPANDE together with the Fundación Ramón Areces and CUNEF Universidad. Over the course of two days, the workshop brought together researchers from universities and research centers in Spain and other European countries to present recent work in development economics. The program was structured around thematic sessions dedicated to labor markets, gender, social norms, political economy, agriculture, conflict, and migration. The workshop also featured two keynote lectures delivered by Sylvie Lambert (Paris School of Economics) and Raúl Sánchez de la Sierra (University of Chicago).

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The Madrid Inequality Workshop (MADNEQ) is an initiative aimed at fostering connections and strengthening ties among the academic community researching inequality at universities across the Madrid region. The workshop is held three times during each academic year and follows a rotating format.

The first edition took place at CUNEF Universidad and was organised by Luis Bauluz, Pedro Salas Rojo and Guillermo Lobo Mioduszewska, professors in the Department of Economics. The second edition was held at the Universidad de Alcalá, and the third edition will take place in June at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

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The 2026 FMA Consortium on Asset Management is a high-quality workshop which featured six cutting-edge papers that cover the full breadth of modern asset management: from convertible bonds bridging credit and equity markets, to the democratization of illiquid assets through interval funds, conflicts of interest among pension fund CIOs, the mechanics of Robinhood's forced liquidations, the role of AI in active portfolio management, and the US Treasury's shadow duration exposure.

The event also featured a keynote lecture by Professor Christian Julliard (London School of Economics and Political Science - LSE), about the term structure of risk premia, a compelling case for why macroeconomic fundamentals are back at the center of asset pricing, and also the presence of faculty and researchers from leading institutions, including Notre Dame, NYU Stern, LSE, BI Norwegian, ITAM, UNC Chapel Hill, and CUNEF Universidad, among others.

The co-chairs were Pedro Saffi (CUNEF Universidad), Mark Hutchinson (UCC), Oğuzhan Karakaş (Cambridge Judge), and Mark Mulcahy (UCC), and FMA, CUNEF Universidad and the Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance as sponsors.

The Workshop of the Spanish Macroeconomics Network provides a space for interaction and exchange among macroeconomics researchers. Held annually since 2018, the workshop features both theoretical and empirical research on macroeconomic topics, broadly defined.

The eighth edition was organised by CUNEF Universidad on 23 and 24 October 2025. The event brought together researchers and academics specialising in macroeconomics and featured prominent international speakers. The local organisation was led by Luis Bauluz, Borja Petit Zarzalejos, José Vicente Rodríguez Mora and Alessandro Ruggieri, professors in the Department of Economics at CUNEF Universidad.

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CUNEF Universidad hosts an in-person workshop on ESG and Corporate Finance at the Almansa Campus.

The workshop is primarily academic in focus, with six research papers presented and discussed by leading scholars working on ESG, climate risk, corporate misconduct, investor behaviour and capital allocation. At the same time, the topics should be highly relevant for practitioners interested in how ESG considerations are reshaping corporate finance, investment decisions and financial markets.

Organized my José María Martín Flores (CUNEF Universidad), Alberta Di Giuli (ESCP Business School) and Arthur Romec (TBS Education).

The workshop Recent Trends in Mathematical Fluid Dynamics brought together nearly 60 researchers, leading experts, and early-career academics in 2025 to discuss the latest advances in the rigorous analysis of fluid dynamics models, as well as to present new techniques and open problems in the field, fostering exchange among researchers at different stages of their academic careers.

To this end, the workshop featured lectures and academic paper presentations, as well as the participation of researchers from international institutions such as Princeton University, New York University, Brown University, and Westlake University, among others.

The workshop was organized by Óscar Domínguez Bonilla, professor in the Department of Mathematics at CUNEF Universidad, together with Diego Córdoba and Fan Zheng, researchers at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (ICMAT).

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