Finance

U.S. regulators have proposed revising the Volcker rule, which restricts the ability of banks to make risky trades with money from depositors. We asked Yale SOM’s Andrew Metrick about the potential consequences of the change.

When companies automatically enroll employees in retirement plans, the employees save more money for their later years. But the extra savings may exact a pre-retirement toll on their finances.

A new paper looking at how investors assess the risk of a stock market crash in the next six months argues that negative media coverage of markets can play a role in investment decisions.

Conventional wisdom says that uncertainty is bad for markets. But Yale SOM’s Stefano Giglio and his co-authors found that investors are willing to pay a premium to protect themselves only against actual market volatility, not mere uncertainty.

We asked faculty and experts across the Global Network for Advanced Management about the potential benefits and risks of Bitcoin and blockchain.

It’s been a dizzying week on Wall Street. We asked Yale SOM’s Andrew Metrick if the volatile stock market also means trouble for the broader economy.

Blythe Masters aims to remake the infrastructure of financial services with blockchain distributed ledger technology.

In a New York Times commentary, Yale’s Robert Shiller writes that attempts to measure the fundamental value of Bitcoin are intrinsically absurd.

Professor William Goetzmann discusses the uncertainty facing the financial hub at Canary Wharf as Britain moves steadily toward its divorce from the European Union.

We asked Yale SOM’s James Choi how a proposed change to the way 401(k) plans are taxed might alter the way people save for retirement.