South Korea is among one of the world's largest exchanges for cryptocurrency, so a ban on it by the country's officials would lead to an acute shortage of the virtual currency, stopping it from spreading to other markets.

Finance professor shares the possible benefits and pitfalls of the digital currency for today and tomorrow, and for local economies and overseas markets.

New research by Professor of Finance Hank Bessembinder shows that the slim odds of picking companies that will turn into big winners also apply to picking publicly traded stocks that will outperform U.S. Treasury bills in the long run.

Why do companies reject bids? That’s the question Thomas Bates, chair of the finance department, set out to answer with his co-author. 

Research by Professor of Finance Hendrik Bessembinder covered in The New York Times receives a response from Bloomberg

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.

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 them.

Even if you luck out and pick a stock that outperforms the market, there is no certainty of success, or even survival, in the future, according to research by Hank Bessembinder, professor of finance at the W. P. Carey School of Business.

Clinical Associate Professor of Finance Geoffrey Smith crunches big data to find that downturns on Mondays have stopped since 1975.

A company's financial statements play a critical part in how its share prices fare in the markets. But financial statements aren't the only sources of information markets use to determine the valuation of a company.