Who are you? How professional background affects CEO pay

CEOs are in the spotlight today. In a time of economic hardship, their outsized salaries make them targets of criticism and resentment. When their companies succeed, CEOs are celebrated, but when firms fail, these executives are saddled with blame. Cláudia Custódio, assistant professor in the W.

Why do investors sometimes make bad investment choices?

Individual investors sometimes make decisions that are “irrational”—   mistakes they know they shouldn’t be making. So what causes investors to make these mistakes? What causes some investors to be less prone to biased investment decision making and others to be more susceptible to it?

Debt crisis: Similarities, differences and lessons learned from the U.S. and Europe

In 2008, the credit crisis in the United States propelled shock waves across the Atlantic to Europe. Europe’s current debt crisis could send damaging waves to America's shores as well, according to international finance experts at the W. P. Carey School of Business.

Prepare for the CFA exam with a master's degree in finance

The Certified Financial Analyst (CFA) charter is one of the most recognized qualifications in finance. Whether you plan to work in the U.S. or internationally, a CFA will deliver skills you can take with you anywhere.

How financial firms choose partners

Finance Professor Laura Lindsey and her co-authors say that they are the first — to the best of their knowledge — to formalize an empirical model for testing economic theories concerning the formation of ties between firms.

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.

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.

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 benchmarks.

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 findings.

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 provisions.