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March 1, 2020

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Model Beats Wall Street Analysts in Forecasting Business Financials

Dec. 19, 2019 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 ... read more

Fearful Customers Sensitive to Size and Scope of a Data Breach While Angry Customers Are Not

May 16, 2019 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 ... read more

Can Predictive Analytics Help Banks, Consumers Avoid Overdraft Issues? New Study Says, Yes

Dec. 3, 2018 In 2012, consumers paid $32 billion in overdraft fees, which represented the single largest source of revenue for banks from demand deposit accounts, ... read more

Ecology of Investors in Financial Markets

Aug. 14, 2018 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 ... read more

Women Seeking Crowdfunding Financing for Start-Ups Are Perceived as More Trustworthy

May 10, 2018 While men have benefited from a gender bias against women when seeking financing for business start-ups, the opposite may be true for female ... read more

Raging Bull: First Study to Find Link Between Testosterone and Stock Market Instability

Oct. 10, 2017 In the U.S. today, the majority of professional stock market traders are young males and new evidence suggests biology strongly influences their ... read more

New International Banking Rules Would Not Prevent Another Financial Crisis

Mar. 27, 2017 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 ... read more

Effectiveness of Federal Reserve Emergency Lending 2007-09

Mar. 16, 2017 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 ... read more

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Wall Street Investors React to Climate Change

Feb. 18, 2020 Institutional investors are factoring climate risks into their investment ... read more

Smooth Operator: When Earnings Management Is a Good Thing

Nov. 26, 2019 New research makes the case that 'smoothing the numbers' can be beneficial -- if you have the right team in place to handle the ... read more

Virtual Speed Bump for Lightning-Fast Markets Proposed

Oct. 29, 2019 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 ... read more

Using Wall Street Secrets to Reduce the Cost of Cloud Infrastructure

Aug. 18, 2019 Researchers have developed a 'risk-aware' model that improves the performance of cloud-computing infrastructure used across the ... read more

School Savings Accounts Can Dry Up in 'Financial Deserts'

Aug. 14, 2019 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 ... read more

Amateur Investors Fail to Diversify and Are Better Off Choosing Stocks at Random

Aug. 14, 2019 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 ... read more

Early Exposure to Banking May Influence Life-Long Financial Health

May 16, 2019 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 ... read more

Bots Exploiting Blockchains for Profit

Apr. 30, 2019 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 ... read more

Gamblers Predicted Brexit Before Financial Traders, Study Finds

Jan. 11, 2019 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 ... read more

Disruption Makes Startup Investors Balance Caution Against Fear of Missing out

Oct. 10, 2018 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 ... read more

Innovation and Speculation Drive Stock Market Bubble Activity, According to New Study

Aug. 1, 2018 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 ... read more

Mergers Are Good News for Investors

June 5, 2018 Shareholder value and market share improve when companies merge, confirms a new ... read more

A Decade After Housing Bust, Mortgage Industry on Shaky Ground, Experts Warn

Mar. 29, 2018 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 ... read more

Bitcoin Crash Could Derail Other Cryptocurrencies

Feb. 8, 2018 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 ... read more

Uncovering Decades of Questionable Investments

Jan. 17, 2018 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 ... read more

Why Digital Strategies Matter in Bond Markets

Dec. 21, 2017 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 ... read more

Study Connects Stocks, Democracy, and the Arab Spring

Dec. 20, 2017 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, ... read more

Stock Market Microstructures: Modeling Could Help Evaluate Financial Crises

Nov. 22, 2017 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 ... read more

The Value of a Dollar? New Research Finds Dollar Appreciation Hurts Emerging Markets

Oct. 31, 2017 New research suggests a strong dollar may hamper investment in emerging ... read more

Mathematical Confirmation: Rewiring Financial Networks Reduces Systemic Risk

June 22, 2017 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 ... read more

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