- February 27, 2025
Since 2008, the meteoric rise of index funds has produced extreme consolidation of corporate ownership. So far, the outcomes for firms are a mixed bag.
- August 22, 2024
Artificial intelligence can perform peer firm selection—a key task for investors—at least as accurately as well-established alternative algorithms and human experts, according to research by Costello profs Long Chen and Yi Cao.
- August 8, 2024
In churchgoing counties, financial advisors are more likely to remember their ethical training and resist the temptation to misbehave.
- July 22, 2024
You can tell a lot about a hedge fund’s quality—and long-term performance—from the market climate in which it was launched.
Lin Sun, assistant professor of finance, recently published a paper in Review of Finance that compares hedge funds formed in high-demand, or “hot,” markets to those produced in a “cold” market climate. - April 10, 2024
Measuring risk in private equity is notoriously difficult. New research by Mason assistant professor of accounting, Mariia Nykyforovych, suggests that metric-based myopia, and the distorted incentives it creates, are partly responsible.
- October 2, 2023
The economic balance is shifting toward private equity. But accounting scholars are still working from an outdated playbook.
- August 21, 2021
New research by Serdar Aldatmaz, assistant professor of finance, benefits organizations that are seeking to move operations overseas.