Finance

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A Stanford scholar says going public often slows innovation.
House Committee on Financial Services -
12.07.12
Anat Admati offers Congressional testimony on capital standards.
European Central Bank President Draghi
Can the eurozone fix itself in the absence of a catastrophe?
Stanford Law School -
11.14.12
The Brookings Institution and Stanford’s Steyer-Taylor Center outline reforms to cut the cost of clean energy finance.
Stanford GSB -
11.05.12
Some of the world's best-known economists and bankers discuss where Europe goes from here.
The World Economic Forum -
10.31.12
Darrell Duffie, Dean Witter Distinguished Professor of Finance, discusses regulatory options in the World Economic Forum's 2012 Financial Development Report.
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Investors in China discuss "me-too technologies" and what's hot in the VC world.
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An economist shows how financial innovation can help reduce ethnic violence.
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The man who brought Perrier to America on how to keep the fizz in your business.
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New research by Ilan Guttman explores how information disclosure can affect financial panics.

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In a new book, a Stanford GSB alum explores how to successfully present numbers.
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Award-winning economist Susan Athey, noted econometrician Guido Imbens, corporate finance expert Joshua Rauh, and others to join Stanford GSB faculty.
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Stanford GSB students honor Dirk Jenter, Charles Lee, and Jeremy Bulow for their memorable teaching.
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Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Edward P. Lazear puts today's economic recovery in historical context.
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A research paper coauthored by finance faculty member Anat Admati has been recognized by the Financial Times and International Centre for Financial Regulation  (ICFR) in their jointly-sponsored third annual essay contest on financial regulation.  
Darrell Duffie
Europe’s banks also need to shore up their capital, not just borrow liquidity, say three experts on international finance.
A 2005 Stanford MBA says that mobile technology devices are revolutionizing banking and other services in Africa, similar to the way computers revolutionized industrialized countries.
"Finance is becoming increasingly integrated with economics, and is drawing more widely from other disciplines including psychology and medicine," says Kenneth J. Singleton, the Adams Distinguished Professor of Management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, who has been named editor of the prestigious Journal of Finance.
Nobel Laureate and Stanford Graduate School of Business emeritus faculty member William F. Sharpe has been honored for the fifth time with the Graham and Dodd Award of Excellence. Established in 1960 by the Financial Analysts Journal the award recognizes excellence in financial writing.

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Darrell Duffie
Finance professor Darrell Duffie of the Stanford Graduate School of Business proposes alternative capital requirements for banks to eliminate potential unintended consequences of financial reform.
John L. Beshears
When they are wrong about quarterly earnings forecasts, analysts may stubbornly stick to their erroneous views, a tendency that might contribute to market bubbles and busts, according to research coauthored by John Beshears of the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Kenneth Singleton
The 2008 turmoil in world oil prices was not caused by an imbalance of supply and demand, argues Professor Kenneth Singleton of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Instead there was an "economically and statistically significant effect of investor flows on futures prices."
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Originally published by Thomson Reuters-GRC, June 14, 2011.
In the emerging market for peer-to-peer loans, the auction method used can make an important difference to the borrower, says Stanford Graduate School of Business economist Nicolas Lambert.
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Researchers have demonstrated that personally experiencing something like the Great Depression has a significant impact on how we invest our money.
Text of Op-Ed Published in Financial Times

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