Finance

2015 Ph.D. Student Speaker Series

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Finance doctoral students with speaker Kent Daniel.
Finance doctoral students with speaker Kent Daniel (Nancy Crouch/UConn School of Business)

The 2015 Ph.D. Student Speaker Series launched on Friday, October 2, 2015, as finance doctoral students welcomed Professor Kent Daniel from Columbia University.

Professor Daniel met with doctoral students, faculty, and presented his latest work at a well-attended seminar. Kent is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has served as an associate editor for the Journal of Finance, as a director of the American Finance Association, and as a director of the Western Finance Assocation.Continue Reading

How the NFL Moves the Stock Market

Posted on by Melissa Ferrigno

Ozy.com- For years it has been a widely held superstition among sports fans that the outcome of key games has an effect on the stock market. With the Super Bowl, it’s called the halo effect — a solid 80 percent of the time, the Dow declines for a year after the AFC team wins, and goes up, also for a year, when the NFC team wins. But, hey, investors: The pundits may be telling it all wrong.

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Preventing the Next Global Debt Crisis

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Could Aspects of Corporate Financial Strategies Help Prevent Sovereign Default?

Some key strategies from corporate finance could potentially help prevent governments from spiraling into financial collapse and destabilizing the global economy.

That’s the conclusion of UConn Business Law Professor Stephen Park and co-author Tim Samples, a professor at the University of Georgia, in their research article titled, “Towards Sovereign Equity,” which is pending publication in the Stanford Journal of Law, Business and Finance in 2016.Continue Reading

In It To Win It

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Closeup of a football.

Corporate Stadium Sponsors’ Stock Fluctuates With an NFL Team’s Success, Failure

Your favorite NFL team has “skin in the game,’’ but perhaps more surprising is that the large corporations that sponsor the stadiums do too.

Those are the findings of UConn Professor of Finance Assaf Eisdorfer and alumna Elizabeth Kohl, ’15 Ph.D., now a professor at the University of Cincinnati. The two football enthusiasts will have their research published in a future issue of the journal Critical Finance Review.Continue Reading

In-demand Skills: Risk Management, Business Analytics

Posted on by Melissa Ferrigno

Hartford Business Journal – While an MBA is considered the higher-education degree of choice for many Connecticut companies, there are other in-demand skill sets. Financial risk management, business analytics, accounting, cyber security, and science, technology, engineering and math are among the areas of expertise sought by Connecticut employers, who are also looking for people with “soft” skills like the ability to communicate and think critically, according to university educators.

New Faculty Members

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School of Business Welcomes 10 New Professors, Each ‘Well Chosen’

Views of the School of Business on Aug. 29, 2014.
View of UConn School of Business (Sean Flynn/UConn Photo)

During the first faculty meeting of the new semester, Dean John A. Elliott formally welcomed 10 new faculty members to the UConn School of Business.

“The group is a mix of tenure track, in-residence and visiting professors. They range widely in experience, but each is well chosen,” he said. “Our students, our research mission, and our role in advancing the success of our corporate partners, and the state, will all be well served by their engagement.”Continue Reading

Ukraine’s Quietly Revolutionary Debt Restructuring

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Financial Times – Ukraine’s debt restructuring plan, announced last month, is both revolutionary and evolutionary. The agreement to restructure $18bn of privately held government debt stands in stark contrast to Greece’s nearly apocalyptic showdown with the European Union this year and Argentina’s simmering standoff with holdout creditors.