A recent paper by PhD Candidate Maarten De Ridder of the Faculty of Economics was discussed in yesterday's speech by ECB Vice-President Luis de Guindos. De Guindos summarized Market Power and Innovation in the Intangible Economy, which is Maarten's Job Market Paper for the year 2019-2020.

The Faculty of Economics is saddened to announce the sudden and unexpected death of Professor William (Willy) Brown on 1 August 2019. Professor Brown held the position of Professor of Industrial Relations from 1985 (Emeritus from 2013) at the Faculty of Economics. He was previously Chair of the Faculty of Economics and Head of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, as well as serving as Master of Darwin College from 2000 – 2012. Before he moved to Cambridge in 1985 he was Director of the Industrial Relations Research Unit at the University of Warwick.

Professor Giancarlo Corsetti has just published a paper in the European Central Bank's (ECB) Working Paper Series. The paper "Fast Trading and the Virtue of Entropy: Evidence from the Foreign Exchange Market" is joint with Romain Lafarguette and Arnaud Mehl.

Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd organised a Symposium on Competition Policy at Clare College Cambridge, on the 17th of May 2019. The Bennett Institute have added videos of the days presentations to their website.

The Royal Economic Society's 2020 Annual Conference will be hosted by Queen's University Belfast on 6-8 April 2020. Submissions of papers are invited for the General Sessions. The closing date for submitting papers is Monday 30th September 2019.

Professor Pete Klenow gave this years Sir Richard Stone Lecture on "Firms and Growth". While Professor Klenow was in Cambridge he also took the time to discuss his "Firms and Growth" research with PhD student Oliver Exton. The video of his Stone Lecture, the question and answer session held after, and his discussion with Oliver are all available on the Stone Lectures site.

Professor Tony Lawson's new book "The Nature of Social Reality: Issues in Social Ontology" has been published by Routledge. It is part of their Economics as Social Theory series.

On 25 April, Heffers bookshop hosted a successful launch of Dr. Victoria Bateman's book, The Sex Factor - How Women Made the West Rich. In the book, Dr Bateman argues that women's freedom in the West boosted wages, skills, saving, entrepreneurial spirit and helped to produce a democratic and capable state. The book was the Guardian's 'Book of the day' last month. Here are some photos from the event.

Princeton University Press, the Faculty of Economics and the Cambridge-INET Institute held an event to celebrate the publication of Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie's The European Guilds: An Economic Analysis book. The event took place on 14th March 2019 in the Old Combination Room, Trinity College. See a selection of photographs from the evening.

Paper proposals are invited for a conference to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the publication of J. M. Keynes's The Economic Consequences of the Peace. The "Economic Consequences of the Peace Centenary Conference" will take place on 9th-10th September 2019, at King's College, Cambridge.

Dr. Meredith Crowley has been appointment to the Trade and the Economy Panel. The TEP is part of the Department for International Trade and aims to raise the DIT's analytical capacity and capability, while championing high-quality, robust analysis to help secure the best outcomes for UK trade policy.