October 2021 [scheduled]: cascad co-founder Christophe Pérignon will give a keynote speech at the 18th Corporate Finance Day on Open Science and Research Reproducibility.

 

July 2021: cascad partners with the organizing team of the 2022 annual meeting of the French Finance Association to verify the reproducibility of a selection of accepted papers (optional for authors). An award will be delivered to the “Best reproduced paper presented at the conference”.

 

July 2021: cascad being mentioned in a new study entitled “The Economics of Research Reproducibility” by Jean-Edouard Colliard, Christophe Hurlin and Christophe Pérignon. The latter two being cascad founders.

 

June 2021: cascad co-founder Christophe Pérignon participated in a focus group on “Publishing Reporducible Research Output” organized by Knowledge Exchange (KE), a consortium of six national organisations within Europe tasked with developing infrastructure and services to enable the use of digital technologies to improve higher education and research.

 

May 2021: cascad mentioned in the Report of the American Economic Association (AEA) Data Editor. Out of the 36 reports provided to AEA by external replicators or replication services, 21 were provided by cascad.

 

May 2021: cascad co-founder Christophe Pérignon gave the keynote speech at the 2021 HEC Liège Research Day on the following topic: “Reproducible Research in Economics and Management: Why and How”.

 

April 2021: cascad becomes a partner institution within the international #fincap project which aims to produce the first crowd-sourced empirical paper in Economics/Finance. 168 participating teams, 6 research questions, 1 single database.

 

March 2020: Because of the lockdown in France, cascad operations moved entirely online. Remote access to French administrative data used by researchers was made possible by the CASD. Access to virtual machines was provided by the HEC Paris IT team. The service has remained 100% online until the end of June 2021 when part of the team was back on the HEC Paris campus.