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Does A Mutual Fund’s Past Performance Predict Its Future?

James Choi
July 07, 2020

A classic 1997 paper on mutual fund performance doesn’t describe present-day markets, Yale SOM's James Choi found.
How You Can Invest in Racial Justice

Teresa Chahine
July 01, 2020

Yale SOM’s Teresa Chahine and a panel of experts discussed how businesses, financial firms, and regular investors can make choices that empower local businesses and increase opportunity.
Study Finds Declaring Bankruptcy May Not Hurt Future Employment Prospects

Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham
March 12, 2020

Hundreds of thousands of Americans declared bankruptcy during the Great Recession. A new study co-authored by Yale SOM’s Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham examines the effect on their employment prospects.
Should We Worry about the Trillion-Dollar Deficit?

William B. English
February 07, 2020

We asked William English, a professor in the practice of finance and a former economist at the Federal Reserve, how the deficit and the ballooning national debt affect the economy and the ability of Congress and the Fed to fight future recessions.
In Finance Field, Gender Disparities Are Significant—But Shrinking

Heather E. Tookes
December 06, 2019
More women are being hired for finance positions at top business schools, according to a study co-authored by Yale SOM's Heather Tookes, but progress is slow. The study suggests that this may be due to limited collaborator networks.
For a Path to a Decarbonized Economy, Look to the States

Robert Klee
October 21, 2019

Robert Klee, a lecturer at Yale and the former commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, says that state-level approaches to the climate crisis provide a roadmap for a 10-year, trillion-dollar effort to put the U.S. on a path to decarbonization.
Why We Need Finance to Fight Climate Change

Jeff Schub
August 27, 2019

There won’t be a transition to clean energy without a way to finance what could be the largest infrastructure project ever undertaken. Yale Insights talked with Jeffrey Schub ’13 of the Coalition for Green Capital about what a National Climate Bank could achieve.
Three Questions: Prof. Vineet Kumar on Facebook’s Move into Cryptocurrency

Vineet Kumar
June 19, 2019
On June 18, Facebook announced Libra, a new cryptocurrency intended to make it easy for individuals and companies to exchange payments anywhere in the world. We asked Prof. Vineet Kumar why a company that started by enabling people to share personal news is now building an alternative financial system.
A Life in Finance: A Conversation with Prof. Roger Ibbotson

Roger G. Ibbotson William N. Goetzmann
May 10, 2019
Professor Roger Ibbotson, an influential scholar and practitioner of finance for decades, sat down for a conversation with Professor William Goetzmann about his groundbreaking work on the historical returns of the stock market, his experiences as a teacher, and his current research.
Forgiving Debts May Boost Employment During Recessions

Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham
May 03, 2019
In an analysis of the Great Recession, Yale SOM's Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham and his co-authors found that states with more generous bankruptcy policies lost fewer local jobs. And the ripple effects of additional debt relief during that period spread nationwide, increasing employment by up to 2%.