The Financial Markets Research Group at the University of Bristol Business School is hosting an in-person, two-half-day conference (from lunch-to-lunch) on 30th June to 1st July, 2025. The conference will feature the in-depth presentation and discussion of seven papers on the theme of “Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy”. In addition, we welcome a keynote speech by Lucio Sarno (University of Cambridge) and a panel discussion including industry experts from the industry.  

Provisional list of presenters and titles:

• Diego Bonelli (Bank of Spain): Good Inflation, Bad Inflation: Implications for Risky Asset Prices
• Simon Lloyd (Bank of England): U.S. Risk and Treasury Convenience
• Zhanhui Chen (Hong Kong University): Longevity Shocks and Corporate Debt Markets
• Carlos Canon (Bank of England): When David becomes Goliath: Why repo market frictions matter
• Alexey Ivashchenko (VU Amsterdam): Credit spreads, daily business cycle, and corporate bond returns predictability
• Daniele Massacci (King’s College): Beyond bilateral flows: indirect connections and exchanges rates
• Monia Magnani (Bocconi University): Nonlinear Dynamics in Monetary Policy-Fuelled Stock Market Bubbles.

The conference will provide an opportunity for the speakers to showcase their research and interact in-person with other researchers around the conference theme. The conference venue is the Arts Complex, G.HO1, 7 Woodland Road, Bristol, BS8 1TB. Please see here for details and a map of the venue. 

The conference will include two lunches (at the conference venue) and a dinner at the Riverstation (The Grove, Bristol , BS1 4RB) on 30th June, 7:00pm.  

Registration information

• Registration fee £100.
• Tickets available through the University of Bristol online shop.
• Registration deadline: 9th June, 2025.

Travel and hotel information

A list of hotel options is here:

• Hotels near Clifton:
  • Number 38 Clifton (4 star)
  • Avon Gorge by Hotel du Vin (3 star)
  • Clifton Hotel (3 star)
  • Victoria Square Hotel (2 star).
• Hotels in the City Centre:
  • Clayton Hotel Bristol City (4 star)
  • Mercure Bristol Grand Hotel (4 star)
  • Bristol Marriott Royal Hotel (4 star)
  • Premier Inn Bristol City Centre (Haymarket) hotel (3 star)
  • Travelodge Bristol Central (3 star).

Any further queries or questions, please email business-school-conferences@bristol.ac.uk