About the CIMF

The Faculty of Economics launched the Centre for International Macroeconomics and Finance (CIMF) this November under the umbrella of Cambridge Finance, a University wide initiative. The new Centre augments the existing centres in the Judge Business School and the Statistical Laboratory, and complements them by focussing on empirical finance with special emphasis on international macroeconomic financial issues such as global economy interactions, financial crisis, contagion, interactive learning, market and credit risk diversification, real time analysis and signal extraction. CIMF builds on Faculty’s existing strength in the areas of time series analysis, econometrics, finance and macroeconomics, and through collaborative research within the University and beyond aims at promoting a more unified and rigorous interdisciplinary approach to research in finance that cuts across mathematical finance, econometrics and international macroeconomics.

In the early stages, the research of the Centre will be underscored by a number of projects that are already in receipt of external support, both Research Council and commercial as well as international organisations such as the European Central Bank. It is expected that the Centre will raise significant additional funds to complement the core funding.