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Research shows that fair-value calculations provide a far more accurate indicator of a bank's risk of failure than calculations based largely on historical cost.
It has been four years since Wall Street and the banking industry imploded under the weight of mortgage-backed securities, but the...
Renowned economist Susan Athey, the first female recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal, will be joining the faculty of the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) as a professor of economics starting in the 2012-2013 academic year. The GSB faculty will also be bolstered by economics professor...
“Say on pay” is the practice of granting shareholders the right to vote on a company’s executive compensation program at the annual shareholder meeting. This relatively recent phenomenon was adopted in the United States in 2010 as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer...
MBA students chose professor Dirk Jenter, pictured far left, for his compelling teaching of Managerial Finance.
Jeremy I. Bulow, left, the Richard A. Stepp Professor of Economics, received the PhD Distinguished Faculty Service Award for 2012.
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STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS – If you’re a bondholder of sovereign debt and think you’ve covered your risks by purchasing credit default swaps, think again.
According to Darrell Duffie, finance professor from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and Stanford economics student Mohit...
Debt, debt, and more debt. Four years after the financial crash of 2008, world banks continue to have enormous debts on their balance sheets, a time bomb that regulators, researchers, and bankers are still debating the best ways to defuse.
In mid-April, Moody’s, one of the most influential ratings...
In this Closer Look, David F. Larcker and Brian Tayan at the Corporate Governance Research Program and researcher Sarah M. Larcker examine this issue in detail.
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STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — It is very difficult for shareholders to know detailed information about CEO succession planning among the companies they have invested in. Although CEO deaths are rare, the sudden death of a CEO can provide insight into the quality of succession...