Topic: Finance
How a Stock Analyst’s Face Affects Their Earning Estimates
Trustworthy and dominant-seeming men: access to corporate management. Dominant-seeming women: not so much.
How to Properly Incentivize Your Unicorn Finder
VCs and other investors need a contract with their seeker that blunts conflicts of interest
Looming Risk to Financial System: $1 Trillion in Commercial Loan Pools
Known as collateralized loan obligations, their aim is actually to reduce risk
What Investors Infer From External News And Management Silence
Uncertainty about outside news alters company disclosures and how markets interpret them, study finds
Who Gets Venture Capital?
Experienced founders with good products still need great employees to attract early investment, study finds
More Money Into Stock Index Funds Suggests Lower Future Returns
As index fees decline, will funds draw big money away from bonds?
Oversight of Borrowed Money Creates Animosity
Friends lending to friends, taxpayers bailing out businesses feel it’s still their money and have opinions on how it’s spent
Future-self Nudge Works Even Better in Reverse
Starting with your future self and looking back to your current self increases likelihood of saving
Wealth Building Behavioral Trait Holds Up in Large-Scale Study
Feeling connected to — not estranged from — our older self is associated with savings and other helpful present-day behaviors
Should Property Taxes Be a Bigger Consideration When Choosing Where to Live?
After some math, a $1 million home in a low-tax state could get you $1 million extra in retirement savings
Companies Sued for Securities Fraud Adopt More Conservative Accounting
The shift spreads through auditors to other clients, potentially clouding the financial information investors rely upon
In Hollywood, Teams Don’t Stick Together Long Enough to Learn From Failure
Success results from assembling a crew with a record of success; flop experience begets a flop
How French Governance Changed the Economic Trajectory of Vietnam’s Southern Region
Cultural shift under direct French rule appears to still drive today’s higher wages and consumption
A Puzzle for US Politics: Slim Majorities in Washington, Wide Vote Margins Back Home
Improved voter targeting and the rise of nationalized campaigns may help explain this disconnect
How First-Mover Advantage, Once Unquestioned, Lost Its Grip on Entrepreneurs and Business Researchers
A skeptic asked questions that drove decades of study; plenty of ‘first-movers’ weren’t actually first