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Faculty in the Media
Research by finance professors Robert Battalio and Bill McDonald about the advantages that the New York Stock Exchange gives to its human floor traders was quoted in a Jan. 7 Bloomberg.com column.
Finance & Markets
Estimating investment returns is tricky — especially, to paraphrase an old Danish saying, when dealing with the future. Still, it comes with the territory when you're a financial manager tasked with evaluating the capital investment opportunities that will drive your firm’s strategies and determining which ones will maximize returns. One of the standard tools of the trade is cost of equity capital estimation (COEC). While this estimate strongly influences corporate capital budgeting decisions, exactly how it’s calculated and what assumptions drive the estimate can vary. …
Faculty in the Media
Notre Dame trade expert Jeff Bergstrand testified before the international trade commission that many of the expected effects of the proposed US-Mexico-Canada Agreement can be estimated using what we’ve already learned about the effects of free trade agreements. As the Nov. 30 deadline approaches for signing the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), University of Notre Dame finance professor Jeffrey Bergstrand…
Faculty in the Media
Finance Professor Peter Kelly is quoted in a Money Week article which speaks to using the behavior of a company's directors as a tool for deciding when to sell stock at a loss.…
Faculty in the Media
Finance Professor Peter Kelly was quoted in a U.S. News Money article about leaving out emotion when evaluating whether or not to sell a stock.…
Faculty in the Media
Finance professor Peter Kelly offers insight on insider sales in an article for The Irish Times…
Faculty in the Media
Finance professor Paul Gao's paper “What’s in a (School) Name? Racial Discrimination in Higher Education Bond Markets,” forthcoming in the Journal of Financial Economics, was featured in BizEd.
Faculty in the Media
Finance professor Peter Kelly's research on the predictive power of insider sales at loss was featured in an Bloomberg opinion piece.
Finance & Markets
Eren Sagun is a Notre Dame sophomore studying Finance and Data Science. She started exploring her business, A Box Full of Sunshine, in August 2016. A Box Full of Sunshine is a non-profit business that provides heartfelt care packages to grieving children and families who have experienced the loss of a loved one. Eren is excited about her project because the organization has the potential to help thousands of people throughout the country that deal with the immense pain that comes with losing a loved one. It also gives her the opportunity to brighten the lives of those who are going through a dark time, and she is so grateful to have the chance to help others.…
Finance & Markets
A new paper by the University of Notre Dame’s Peter Kelly takes a rigorous look at the predictive power of insider trading — not the illegal kind, which is based on access to information not in the public domain, but the normal trading activities of corporate executives.