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A moment of opportunity
Economist and finance professor Jeffrey Bergstrand writes about the potential costs of government intervention in economic recovery in this opinion piece for the Keough School of Global Affairs.
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Firms perceived to fake social responsibility become targets for hackers, study shows
What corporate leaders may not realize is that strides they are making toward social responsibility may be placing a proverbial target on their backs — if their efforts appear to be disingenuous, according to new research from professor of IT, Analytics and Operations Corey Angst.
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Firms behaving badly: Investors punish for social irresponsibility depending on proportion of company execs with law degrees
Marketing professor Vamsi Kanuri and his research team discovered the extent to which investors punish firms for Corporate Social Irresponsibility (CSI) is associated with the proportion of top management executives in a firm who have a law degree.
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Massive decline in first quarter GDP signals much worse lies ahead, expert says
Finance professor Jason Reed talks about what to expect in the second quarter and says experts expect it to get much worse.
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Most firms neglected to include pandemic in annual risk assessments despite warning signs, study shows
Finance professors Bill McDonald and Timothy Loughran examined all 10-K filings (annual reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission) from 2018, before the current pandemic, and found that less than 21 percent of the filings contain any pandemic-related terms.
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Econometrics researcher’s calculations illustrate why we should social distance
Not only does social distancing work to slow the spread of the virus, it’s an exercise in probability, according to Richard Sheehan, finance professor at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business. Sheehan, who specializes in applied econometrics, has developed a model that shows viral transmission as a probability rather than a certainty and demonstrates how social distancing — or changing the probabilities — slows the spread.
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“Phase Four” coronavirus relief package is necessary and must address three points, expert says
Jeffrey Bergstrand, professor of finance and a former Federal Reserve economist, emphasized the need for Phase Four, which he said “will bring some stimulus to aggregate demand if there is a government infrastructure program put in place.”
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Female directors are quicker to recall dangerous medical products, study shows
Severe product problems that injure or kill consumers are recalled much faster when there are women on the board according to “The Influence of Female Directors on Product Recall Decisions,” forthcoming at Manufacturing & Service Operations Management from lead author Kaitlin Wowak, assistant professor of information technology, analytics and operations in Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business.
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Coronavirus relief dollars will help produce medical supplies, direct patient impact will take time
A $2 trillion coronavirus relief package is on its way, but health care workers won’t feel its impact for weeks, according to Kaitlin Wowak, an assistant professor of IT, analytics, and operations at Mendoza College of Business.
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Trusting strangers: Details matter to millennials using Uber, Airbnb
The “sharing economy” is a defining feature of the millennial generation, allowing people to earn money from renting their assets that may be sitting unused, including homes, spare bedrooms and […]
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