
Finance
So few market winners, so much dead weight
Research by Professor of Finance Hendrik Bessembinder covered in The New York Times receives a response from Bloomberg. …

Finance
The best investment since 1926? Apple
When analyzing publicly traded stocks that have yielded the highest returns since 1926, research by Professor of Finance Hendrik Bessembinder reveals a corporate giant of today at the forefront. …

Finance
Cashing in on opportunity and quality jobs in Phoenix
Associate Director Tom Rex shares mixed reviews about his recent report on quality jobs in the …

Finance
The mind-boggling ascent of Amazon and Jeff Bezos
Professor of Finance Hendrik Bessembinder's research examines the 30 greatest wealth creators in the stock market from 1926 through 2016 — and the fledgling retail giant is one of …

Finance
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 …

Finance
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 …

Finance
Lesson of the century: Most US stocks can’t even beat a T-bill
Research results reinforce the importance of portfolio diversification and show why many actively managed investments often underperform their …

Finance
Whom to vote for? Employees tend to follow their leader
Does your CEO influence your political views? You may be surprised by the staggering and perhaps alarming research …

Finance
Clawback provisions: Research shows the claws are not always sharp
In a USA Today article, Associate Professor of Finance Ilona Babenko reported on her research of 272 companies with clawback …

Finance
Study: Divesting from fossil fuel firms could cost colleges billions
Major universities that rely on large endowments could be hit hard by the recent shift towards divesting from fossil …

Finance
Optimism in the Phoenix housing market
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 …

Finance
‘The Big Short’ evokes big tears, bad memories
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 …

Finance
Going private: Is it really a path to better performance?
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 …

Entrepreneurship
Three approaches to valuing your business
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 …

Entrepreneurship
Finding the right financing for your business
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 …