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What Does a Record Stock Market Mean?

We asked Yale SOM’s William Goetzmann, an expert on financial markets and the history of finance, what soaring stock prices say about the economy and the future of the markets.

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  • The Mirage of the Financial Singularity

    The financial singularity, a hypothetical state in which powerful computers direct all investment decisions and financial markets become perfect, will never become reality, according to Robert Shiller.

  • How Should Nonprofits Invest?

    Sandra Urie ’85 of Cambridge Associates talks about helping clients find the right level of risk.

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  • Can a New York Burger Make It in Dubai?

    Shake Shack’s Danny Meyer discusses the challenges of international expansion.

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  • Five Lessons from the 2015 Customer Insights Conference

    The rise of the millennial generation and the explosion of mobile technology have permanently changed the landscape for marketers.

  • Is Making All Banks Follow the Same Rules a Bad Idea?

    Standardization. Harmonization. Coordination. They all sound like good ideas. But in a lecture at Yale SOM, Roberta Romano, the Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School, argued that the convergence of banking regulations brought about by the Basel Accords may have had the unintended effect of fueling the financial crisis.

    Is Making All Banks Follow the Same Rules a Bad Idea?
  • Corruption Decreases Technology Adoption in Emerging Markets

    Technology adoption is lower in emerging markets with corrupt business environments, and higher in those with good transparency and enforcement, according to a new study forthcoming in Marketing Science.

  • Can You Get Higher Returns from Low-Risk Stocks?

    The concept of high-risk, high-return is a bedrock belief in finance, confirmed by decades of empirical data. But when Prof. Roger Ibbotson dug deeper into the data, things started to look a little different.

  • How Do Marketers Sell Christmas?

    The holiday season is a time for joy and family and a staggering amount of shopping. In a video interview on UCD Smurfit’s Faculty Insights series, Professor Damien McLoughlin says that marketers make those sales by taking advantage of our holiday impulses, including the drive to be cheerful.

  • Big Box Retailers Squeeze Smaller Suppliers by Borrowing from Them

    Large, investment-grade companies such as Walmart and Home Depot that can easily borrow money in the capital markets often receive financing from their much smaller, credit-constrained suppliers. A new study examines the effects of this pattern of financing and finds that it squeezes small suppliers, creating a cash shortfall and causing them to cut back on capital investments.

  • What’s the Right Algorithm for Quantitative Investing?

    Computer-based trading dominates markets, with a majority of trading activity in major markets happening without any human intervention. Robert Litterman, a pioneer of the quantitative investing approach, spoke with Yale Insights about how ruthless competition keeps the field changing and why he believes human judgment remains an essential component of any strategy.

    What’s the Right Algorithm for Quantitative Investing?