ASU research debunks stock-market myth
After decades of debate, Clinical Associate Professor of Finance Geoffrey Smith says he and a colleague have discredited the “Weekend Effect.”
After decades of debate, Clinical Associate Professor of Finance Geoffrey Smith says he and a colleague have discredited the “Weekend Effect.”
Does your CEO influence your political views? You may be surprised by the staggering and perhaps alarming research findings.
In a USA Today article, Associate Professor of Finance Ilona Babenko reported on her research of 272 companies with clawback provisions.
Many believe liquidity — the ease and cost-efficiency with which investors can buy or sell bonds — isn’t what it was before the recession. Hank Bessembinder, professor of finance at the W. P. Carey School of Business, and colleagues from Southern Methodist University went beyond anecdotes and assessed whether dealers have become less committed in recent years to making markets in corporate bonds.
Major universities that rely on large endowments could be hit hard by the recent shift towards divesting from fossil fuels.
Optimism prevails in the Phoenix real estate market, according to expert Mike Orr, speaking at the Economic Club of Phoenix. Overall supply, which has been low, is now 77 percent of normal and rising fast, he said. But demand is 99 percent normal, which means prices are rising.