Alfred Duncan

My paper, "Objectives and Challenges of Macroprudential Policy", co-authored with Prof. Charles Nolan was prepared for the 2015 Money Macro and Finance Group UK Monetary and Financial Conference. This conference was hosted by Bloomberg in their London offices on 25 September 2015. Following the conference, our paper was featured on centralbanking.com (paywalled), an excellent source of monetary policy news and analysis. I have also blogged about the paper at cambridge.tax. Ma

Dr Dominic de Cogan, May Hen and I organise the Cambridge Tax Discussion Group, a forum for discussions on anything related to tax policy. The Discussion Group brings together legal scholars, sociologists, economists, accounting scholars, judges and tax professionals to weekly coffee morning discussions as well as regular dinners hosted in Cambridge. We've recently launched a website, cambridge.tax, which can also be reached via the more catchy url taxtaxtax.tax. Please visit

I'm delighted to receive one of the 2016 Adam Smith Business School Prizes for PhD Excellence. The prize was awarded for my PhD dissertation, Essays on Financial Contracts and Business Cycles. The other very worthy winners of the 2016 prizes are Dr Ding Liu and Dr Huichou Huang. The Adam Smith Business School has posted a short article on the prize and our work here. I am particularly indebted to my supervisors, Prof. Charles Nolan and Prof. Cambpell Leith and everybody in th