Amazon’s 49,000 percent gain: The most super of superstocks since 1926

In working paper, “Do Stocks Outperform Treasury Bills?” by Professor of Finance Hendrik Bessembinder, he found that individual stocks are a gamble. An extremely small percentage of them have done well, and when gains and losses are added up over their lifetimes, most stocks haven’t made any money.

Diminishing returns: employee stock options in an acquisition

Mergers and acquisitions create and destroy massive amounts of money, and are hugely important to the financial world. Associate Professor of Finance Ilona Babenko’s recent research supplies a missing piece of the complex merger jigsaw puzzle.