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  • Fed raises interest rates and signals faster hikes on the way

    Finance professor Jason Reed was interviewed for a CNN Money piece on the Federal Reserve's decision to hike interest rates. Read the full story here.

    CNN Money

  • Benchmark bandits! How some funds game active share

    Martijn Cremers, whose 2009 paper introduced Active Share as a new measure of active portfolio management, has co-authored a new paper, "Benchmark Discrepancies and Mutual Fund Performance Evaluation"…

    Citywire

  • Taxpayers lose in the bond market when local newspapers close

    Finance professor Paul Gao's research on the relationship between local newspaper closures and the cost of municipal bonds was featured in Bloomberg Businessweek. Read the full story here…

    Bloomberg Businessweek

  • Goodbye, Newspapers. Hello, Bad Government.

    Bloomberg Opinion columnist Noah Smith wrote a piece about finance professor Paul Gao's paper detailing what happens to government borrowing costs when a city's newspaper closes.

    Bloomberg Businessweek

  • Here’s another reason to keep local journalism alive — it helps keep local government spending down

    A Los Angeles Times editorial writer wrote about a working paper "Financing dies in darkness? The impact of newspaper closures on public finance" coauthored by finance professor Paul Gao, the Viola D. Hank Associate Professor of Finance at Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business. 

    Los Angeles Times

  • The hidden costs of losing your city’s newspaper

    A segment of “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” inspired Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business finance professor Paul Gao to research what happens to cities when their local newspapers shut down. His research was featured in a recent CityLab article. Read the full story here…

    CityLab

  • 2018 finance grad wins OZY Genius Award

    University of Notre Dame 2018 graduate Nikhil Garg, a finance and applied and computational mathematics and statistics a double major, is among 10 college students who received a 2018 OZY Genius Award. He is co-founder of Centralix, an exchange aggregator that allows retail traders in the digital asset space to buy and sell cryptocurrencies from one central platform at best execution prices, without having an account on each individual exchange.…

    OZY

  • Here’s the only way Trump can win the two-front trade war with China and the EU

    In a commentary piece for CNBC, Jason Reed, an assistant teaching professor in the finance department, looks at the latest in U.S. trade talks with China in light of tariff negotiations with the European Union. Read the full piece here…

    Jason Reed

  • What active share can and can’t tell you

    After 13 fund companies agreed to voluntarily disclose the active share metrics for their funds following an investigation by the New York attorney general, Investment News interviewed Martijn Cremers, the Bernard J. Hank Professor of Finance at Mendoza College of Business whose 2009 paper (co-authored with Antti Petajisto) introduced the measure of active portfolio management. …

    Investment News

  • Dual-class firms have higher market valuations near time of IPO that drop over next six years, study finds

    New research from Martijn Cremers may have regulatory implications, and can inform the debate regarding dual-class stock financing.

    Shannon Roddel