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We've always known SOX adds significantly to compliance costs, but wow. No wonder my chairman Jeff Peterson calls it the "no accountant left behind act".SEC's expansion of Sarbanes-Oxley Act could mean big costs for smaller companies | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Will Deener ...
Government
SEC
Personal Finance
Kevin Volpp: Behavioral Economics and Healthy Behaviors :: The Daily Gazette: "Volpp concluded by noting three major questions in this field individual behavior and health: First, are there built-in default benefits to be had? Second, in what ways can we make information provision more precise? ...
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Well we missed the conference, but I will look for info from itUC Davis News & Information :: Workshop on Economics, Neuroscience and Hormones: "Another new area -- endocrinological economics -- studies how hormones such as testosterone and estradiol affect economic behavior. At the workshop, ...
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Harvard University
Along the lines of the priming video we saw a few days ago, here is more on "priming" from Chua and Zou. Very interesting.The Devil Wears Prada?from the abstract : "This paper demonstrates that mere exposure to luxury goods increases individuals’ propensity to prioritize self-interests over ...
Other
Personal Finance
Science Friday Archives: The Science of Decision-Making: "Paper or plastic? Steak or salmon? Stay or go? Every day, we make thousands of decisions, most minor, some major. But how does your brain make the choice? In this hour, we'll take a look at the science of decision making. Can your genes ...
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From Columbia Unviversity. WOW.Public Offering : Warren Buffett and Bill Gates: Keeping America Great: "On November 12, 2009, Warren Buffett, MS ’51, and Bill Gates met with more than 700 students, faculty members and alumni from Columbia Business School in a town hall event, which was filmed ...
Stocks
Warren Buffet
Bill Clinton
Morgan Stanley
YouTube - Other People's Money speech by Danny DeVito: "Other People's Money speech by Danny DeVito"If you want to feel old, mention this movie in class, virtually no one has heard of it. Fortunately some of it is still online. Here is Jorgy's speech, and here is Danny Devito's
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Is It Possible To Invent An Investment Product Too Stupid To Find Buyers?: "Last Friday, he posted a satirical article called First 100x Leveraged ETFs. It made fun of the trend toward higher leverage among ETF products....he was deluged with emails. Many people got the joke. But a full 65% ...
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Delayed Economic Reform Killed 14.5 Million Children | Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar | Cato Institute: Commentary: "Had reforms started in 1970 rather than 1980, India would have grown faster. In this fast-growth scenario, i assume that per capita income growth in the 1970s would have been ...
Stocks
Cato
Gross Domestic Product
Islamic Finance: Lower Risk, But at What Cost? - BusinessWeek: "Financial products based on 8th-century religious laws may seem an unlikely haven during a global crisis. But Islamic banking and financial services, based on traditional Muslim laws known as Sharia, are enjoying a major ...
Other
Personal Finance
Risk Management
From the AFA program:SSRN-In Search of Attention by Zhi Da, Joseph Engelberg, Pengjie Gao: "Abstract: Turnover, extreme returns, news and advertising expense are indirect proxies of investor attention. In contrast, we propose a direct measure of investor demand for attention -- active attention ...
Stocks
SEC
I had a student ask about this...Why China Hates The Carry Trade: "A carry trade is when you borrow from a currency with a low interest rate, and then invest in a currency with a higher interest rate. Say the US interest rate is 3%, and the Chinese interest rate is 5%. Borrow at 3%, invest at ...
Government
Great article by Andrew Ross Sorkin at the NY Times:DealBook Column - Do Stockholders Really Know Best? - News Analysis - NYTimes.com: "British takeover law essentially handcuffs the board of a target company from doing anything to block a deal. No poison pills. No staggered boards. No changing ...
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Here is the paper we were talking about yesterday in class when we relaxed the Modigliani and Miller assumptions of no transaction costs and allowed there to be market imperfections. The conclusion was that financial slack may be more valuable than we used to think.SSRN-The Real Effects of ...
Hedge Funds
Financial Crisis
Campbell Harvey
John Paulson
Love And Envy Linked By Same Hormone, Oxytocin: "A new study carried out at the University of Haifa has found that the hormone oxytocin, the 'love hormone,' which affects behaviors such as trust, empathy and generosity, also affects opposite behaviors, such as jealousy and gloating."
Stocks
Finally a finance article that students will care about! Clusterstocks's Business Insider posts on the price of beer in various countries as tied to market power of the top beer producers. Morgan Stanley: Blame Market Consolidation For The Soaring Cost Of Beer: "Morgan Stanleyshows pretty ...
Stocks
Morgan Stanley
UPDATE: Some Retailers Could Follow Wal-Mart's Credit Program - WSJ.com: "While companies with very strong credit are considered the most likely to be able to follow Wal-Mart if they choose, there are others that could supply their credit rating in certain cases for the supplier to obtain bank ...
Stocks
Wal-Mart
YouTube - Nice Guys Finish First (1/5) - Richard Dawkins: "First (of five) part of the 1986 documentary from the BBC Horizon series. In this video Richard Dawkins explains how natural selection can favour co-operation in nature, so long as it is of benefit to the selfish gene....in their ...
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YouTube - Priming, Money and their Effect On Us: "An interesting experiment conducted by the BBC's 'Bang Goes The Theory Team' regarding a psychological phenomenon called 'Priming'. It is a phenomenon that may well change your understanding about the way we are all affected by what we see, and ...
