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 …

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 …

Research results reinforce the importance of portfolio diversification and show why many actively managed investments often underperform their …

Does your CEO influence your political views? You may be surprised by the staggering and perhaps alarming research …

In a USA Today article, Associate Professor of Finance Ilona Babenko reported on her research of 272 companies with clawback …

Major universities that rely on large endowments could be hit hard by the recent shift towards divesting from fossil …

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 …

Michael Orr, director of the Center for Real Estate Theory and Practice, relives the housing crash while watching the Oscar-nominated film “The Big Short” with The Arizona Republic’s Catherine …

A long line of academic research argues that privately owned companies should be better managed than their publicly owned counterparts. But recent research by Finance Professor Sreedhar Bharath calls this conventional …

Your business is thriving, but to continue to grow, you need capital. Before you enter the market, you need to know what your company is worth. With headlines about outrageously valued start-up companies running …

Laura Lindsey, an associate professor of finance at the W. P. Carey School, is an expert on venture capital and private equity, governance and financial contracting. In this column Lindsey touches on finding the right …

The high volatility that electrified the Phoenix real estate market over the past few years has been replaced by something more like normality. Change is more gradual. The real news is tied to long term trends, which …

Between 1992 and 2001, median compensation for Standard and Poor's 500 more than tripled, but growth in CEO pay was relatively flat before 1992 and after 2001. This longstanding puzzle was explored in research presented …

The Phoenix metro area has a history of rapid price increases and breath-taking drops, so to longtime observers the currently calm market may seem — well — dull. But experts at the “Phoenix Housing Market …

There has been little change in the Greater Phoenix real estate market for the last year, and the October numbers show a continuation of the trend, according to Mike Orr, director of the Center for Real Estate Theory …