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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

In working paper, “Do Stocks Outperform Treasury Bills?” by Professor of Finance Hendrik Bessembinder, he found that individual stocks are a gamble.

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.

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

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.