The real value of taking your business offshore
While it seems prestigious -- and tax-savvy -- to be based in the Cayman Islands or Luxembourg, companies that choose to do so aren't actually worth more, according to a new study. It's the companies...
View ArticleDoes your financial adviser specialize in misconduct?
In the first large-scale study documenting the economy-wide extent of misconduct among financial advisers and financial advisory firms in the United States, researchers find that most financial...
View ArticleFemale traders can reduce market crashes, expert says
Research shows that increasing the proportion of female traders can reduce the occurrence of the most extreme crashes.
View ArticleDetails behind stock market 'flash crash'
Conclusions: Indicted trader not to blame; systemic issues of high-frequency trading more likely responsible for 1,000-point drop.
View ArticleIntelligent transaction tax could help reduce systemic risk in financial...
A new study proposes a solution for mitigating the increasingly risky nature of financial markets, based on an analysis of systemic risk in financial networks.
View ArticleStocks overvalued longer and more often than previously thought, says study
A study of the most commonly-traded US stocks over the last 13-years finds 13,000 'bubbles,' or periods when the stocks were overpriced.
View ArticleStudy uses text-mining to improve market intelligence on startups
A researcher has created a new method that uses big data analytics and text-mining techniques to improve market intelligence and explain potential mergers and acquisitions of startup companies in the...
View ArticleLight-bulb moment for stock market behavior
Physicists have discovered that the timing of electronic orders on the stock market can be mathematically described in the same way as the lifetime of a light bulb.
View ArticleTwitter sentiment offers clues to stock performance, study shows
A strong contemporaneous correlation does exist between the mood of a day’s worth of tweets about a particular stock and the performance of that stock, research shows.
View ArticleMany underestimate financial loss due to poor arithmetic
Anyone who has lost out on an investment in recent weeks -- from pension funds and stocks to the housing rental market and currency exchange -- may have lost more than they realize, according to new...
View ArticleNew approach predicts price trends in the stock options market
A novel method to identify how options traders exploit mutual fund non-fundamental price pressure on aggregate stock prices is outlined in a new paper.
View ArticleEconomists examined US legal cannabis sector to gauge value of banking services
Despite the many innovative services in the digital age, conventional banking remains important to newly-established businesses; banking cannot yet be replaced by online financial services such as...
View ArticleUnderstanding the impact of delays in high-speed networks
In a world increasingly reliant on high-speed networks, introducing microsecond delays into such systems can have profound effects.
View ArticleEffectiveness of Federal Reserve emergency lending 2007-09
For the first time ever, new research examines data from the 2007-2009 financial crisis to show how the US Federal Reserve can effectively assist banks in times of financial uncertainty.
View ArticleNew international banking rules would not prevent another financial crisis
The Basel III regulatory framework, as planned, will not reduce systemic risk in the financial sector, according to new research. Instead, regulations should aim to increase the resilience of financial...
View ArticleMathematical confirmation: Rewiring financial networks reduces systemic risk
A proposed tax on systemically risky financial transactions could reduce the risk of financial system crashes by spurring financial networks to reshape in more resilient ways, suggests a new report.
View ArticleRaging Bull: First study to find link between testosterone and stock market...
In the U.S. today, the majority of professional stock market traders are young males and new evidence suggests biology strongly influences their trading behavior. According to a new study this could be...
View ArticleThe value of a dollar? New research finds dollar appreciation hurts emerging...
New research suggests a strong dollar may hamper investment in emerging economies.
View ArticleStock market microstructures: Modeling could help evaluate financial crises
Researchers have analyzed the statistical regularities and irregularities in the recent order flow of 96 different NASDAQ stocks. Since prices are strongly correlated during financial crises, they...
View ArticleStudy connects stocks, democracy, and the Arab Spring
Day after day in early 2011, massive crowds gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square, calling for the ouster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Away from the square, the protests had another effect, as a...
View ArticleWhy digital strategies matter in bond markets
Information technology investments are often valued favorably by the stock market because of their strategic nature and important role in influencing revenue and profit growth of firms. New research...
View ArticleUncovering decades of questionable investments
Researchers used the Wrangler supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center to uncover the root cause of the 'beta anomaly' -- a discrepancy between the expected return on high-risk assets and...
View ArticleBitcoin crash could derail other cryptocurrencies
A sharp fall in the value of Bitcoin may cause other cryptocurrencies to crash, but is unlikely to have a significant impact on traditional assets, according to new research.
View ArticleA decade after housing bust, mortgage industry on shaky ground, experts warn
New regulations on banks fueled a boom in nonbank mortgage companies, a category of independent lenders that are more lightly regulated and more financially fragile than banks. These lenders now...
View ArticleWomen seeking crowdfunding financing for start-ups are perceived as more...
While men have benefited from a gender bias against women when seeking financing for business start-ups, the opposite may be true for female entrepreneurs seeking initial investment through...
View ArticleMergers are good news for investors
Shareholder value and market share improve when companies merge, confirms a new study.
View ArticleInnovation and speculation drive stock market bubble activity, according to...
A group of data scientists conducted an in-depth analysis of major innovations and stock market bubbles from 1825 through 2000 and came away with novel takeaways of their own as they found some very...
View ArticleEcology of investors in financial markets
Researchers studied the similarity of investment decisions in the financial market and how the investment strategies used by the investors influence the volatility of the markets by using an...
View ArticleDisruption makes startup investors balance caution against fear of missing out
A new study finds that fear of missing out motivates investors to give money early to startups with a disruptive vision. However, those backers are reluctant to invest too much in unproven ideas that...
View ArticleCan predictive analytics help banks, consumers avoid overdraft issues? New...
In 2012, consumers paid $32 billion in overdraft fees, which represented the single largest source of revenue for banks from demand deposit accounts, while leading to significant levels of consumer...
View ArticleGamblers predicted Brexit before financial traders, study finds
Research shows how financial markets should have predicted Brexit hours before they eventually did, and that betting markets beat currency markets to the result by an hour -- producing a 'close to...
View ArticleBots exploiting blockchains for profit
Like high-frequency traders on Wall Street, a growing army of bots exploit inefficiencies in decentralized exchanges, which are places where users buy, sell or trade cryptocurrency independent of a...
View ArticleEarly exposure to banking may influence life-long financial health
Growing up in a community with or without banks has a long-term effect on how you build and manage credit, according to a new study. The research shows individuals who grow up in what are essentially...
View ArticleFearful customers sensitive to size and scope of a data breach while angry...
Customers who feel afraid in the wake of a data breach care more about the size and scope of the breach than do angry customers, according to new research.
View ArticleAmateur investors fail to diversify and are better off choosing stocks at random
A new study has found that less-experienced investors are failing to diversify -- and could be putting themselves at serious financial risk. The effect is so pronounced that many amateur investors...
View ArticleSchool savings accounts can dry up in 'financial deserts'
Children's savings accounts (CSAs), offered by elementary schools throughout San Francisco and in schools across the nation, were introduced to boost college-going rates, limit student debt and foster...
View ArticleUsing Wall Street secrets to reduce the cost of cloud infrastructure
Researchers have developed a 'risk-aware' model that improves the performance of cloud-computing infrastructure used across the globe.
View ArticleVirtual speed bump for lightning-fast markets proposed
A researcher says a tiny tweak to how certain trades happen could make for more efficient stock markets, and it's already being adopted by major players.
View ArticleSmooth operator: When earnings management is a good thing
New research makes the case that 'smoothing the numbers' can be beneficial -- if you have the right team in place to handle the job.
View ArticleModel beats Wall Street analysts in forecasting business financials
Researchers describe a model for forecasting financials that uses only anonymized weekly credit card transactions and three-month earning reports. Tasked with predicting quarterly earnings of more than...
View ArticleWall Street investors react to climate change
Institutional investors are factoring climate risks into their investment decisions.
View ArticleHelping consumers in a crisis
A new study shows that the central bank tool known as quantitative easing helped consumers substantially during the last big economic downturn -- a finding with clear relevance for today's pandemic-hit...
View ArticleTendency to select targeted retirement fund ending in zero may impact wealth
New research shows that selecting a targeted retirement fund that ends in a zero could negatively impact your retirement savings. The study identified a ''zero bias'' or tendency for individuals to...
View ArticleMachine learning can predict market behavior
Machine learning can assess the effectiveness of mathematical tools used to predict the movements of financial markets, according to new research based on the largest dataset ever used in this area.
View ArticleIts curvature foreshadows the next financial bubble
A new paper sheds light on the higher-order architecture of financial systems and allow analysts to identify systemic risks like market bubbles or crashes.
View ArticleLoan applications processed around midday more likely to be rejected
Bank credit officers are more likely to approve loan applications earlier and later in the day, while 'decision fatigue' around midday is associated with defaulting to the safer option of saying no,...
View ArticleFungi embrace fundamental economic theory as they engage in trading
When you think about trade and market relationships, you might think about brokers yelling at each other on the floor of a stock exchange on Wall Street. But it seems one of the basic functions of a...
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View ArticleBridging traditional economics and econophysics
How do asset markets work? Which stocks behave similarly? Economists, physicists, and mathematicians work intensively to draw a picture but need to learn what is happening outside their discipline. A...
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