Research

Home prices in Phoenix started to rise from the summer doldrums in September and supply is also increasing, according to the latest Greater Phoenix Housing report from the W. P. Carey School’s Center for Real Estate Theory and Practice.

Things get better -- but not dramatically so -- in 2014, says 2013 Lawrence R. Klein Award winner Dean Maki.

The rise in “open innovation” contests has helped companies broaden their research and development while reducing their cost and risk of failure.

With seven new faculty hires this year, the School of Accountancy has bolstered its status as one of the nation's top accounting programs. "We are hiring in a strategically focused way to build on our strengths and to add depth in areas where we see opportunity," said Philip M. J.

Supply in the Phoenix real estate market is not yet back to normal, but it is clearly getting much stronger. Demand, meantime, has cooled as investor interest wanes and ordinary homebuyers hang back.

When a company is struggling financially, its auditors feel their own kind of pain.

New research by assistant finance professor Claudia Custodio has found that the diversification discount can be grossly over-estimated as a result of flaws in the way it has traditionally been calculated.

Last week the news of Google's new Hummingbird conversational search engine had analysts buzzing. One of the implications is that business users will expect the same capability from their applications. This is exciting – it adds more fuel to the fire of the consumerization of IT trend.

Today’s healthcare tab in the U.S. exceeds some $2.5 trillion, and there are plenty of wasted greenbacks in that eye-popping figure. Information technology has the potential to reduce waste, and that’s why Raghu Santanam is researching healthcare uses of IT and their impacts.

Information Systems Professor Ajay Vinze has traveled the world as a Fulbright senior specialist since 2008, and now he is continuing his journey on behalf of ASU and the W. P. Carey School.