Higher prices for the first few procedures, followed by a volume discount, may help balance risks and rewards
Research might give pause to corporate boards changing compensation models
Informed by personal experience, a researcher parses data to help those mulling mastectomy and gynecological surgeries
Researchers’ model could quantify the risks in the growing movement to ease up on Dodd-Frank regulations
Andrea Eisfeldt finds that hedge funds with infrastructure to execute sophisticated arbitrage crowd out less-expert investors
Tyler Muir finds that neither war nor deep recession darkens investor sentiment like sudden turmoil in the financial system
Valentin Haddad’s research finds that insurers’ patient investing shields risky assets — and those who hold them — from steeper declines
Valentin Haddad’s research looks at the phenomenon of “information aversion,” when individual investors stop tracking their portfolios for fear of bad news
Patterns in corporate bond returns include abrupt short-term performance reversals and “momentum” waves that persist
The case for using rising market volatility as a signal to pare back on stocks — does higher risk always mean higher return?
Highly technical probabilistic risk assessments at nuclear plants improve safety and pay for themselves many times over
A model examines the relationships between innovation, speculation and market values
Market concentration, price and quality drive choice of firms
As a group, Chinese futures traders more likely to suffer margin call than to profit
Lenders financed expansion in some markets, offsetting problems in others