The objective of this article is to build better estimates of CPI headline and core inflation values so inflation comparisons over time are more reliable. The run-up in inflation we are currently experiencing is difficult to contextualize because it is inconsistent with past practices, weights on expenditures have changed, and the treatment of housing costs.
This article examines the state of Artificial Intelligence (AI). We examine its history with an eye toward what it may mean for the world in years to come.
The contribution of salience theory to the theory of asset pricing turns out to be quite a profitable insight for momentum strategies.
In this article, the authors examine the research on the benefits of international diversification. Some argue that because equity markets generally crash simultaneously, there are no benefits to having equity diversification. The evidence from this paper rejects this hypothesis.
In this article, we examine the research on the pervasiveness of corporate fraud (misconduct or alleged fraud), which is one of the (less emphasized) costs of public ownership.
The verdict is still out on the impact of legislation regarding firm disclosure rules on the gender pay gap (GPG). Results from recently published research are mixed.
This article examines the research on gender bias and fund management. Specifically, we will focus on the gender-based attention bias.
This example of research on political beta is an example of applying portfolio theory to problems associated with global politics.
This table of emissions and carbon intensity is relevant to the question of institutional investor influence over the carbon footprint.
The illiquid nature of the asset class makes the demystifying of private equity returns difficult to achieve under any circumstances, but the framework presented in this article should move the reader closer to the goal.
Can the planet earth be saved by investors? Find out what the research says!
In this article about asset pricing theory, we examine the research on the impact of technological advances that displace human labor in favor of machine capital to asset pricing.
Although geopolitical risk has traditionally been approached from a qualitative aspect, what makes it a novel risk is the application of innovative techniques to measure it.
Pastor, Stambaugh, and Taylor (2015) and Zhu (2018) provide significant evidence of decreasing returns to scale (DRS) at both the fund and industry levels. The authors examine the robustness of their inferences after Adams, Hayunga, and Mansi (2021) critique the above two studies.
This paper investigates the effects of volatility scaling on factor portfolio performance and factor timing.
In this article, we examine the research on investing during inflationary regimes such as deflation, inflation, and stagflation. Factors perform relatively well in all regimes on a real basis.
Here's what the research says about how to get on a board of directors.
This paper explores the question of option momentum by examining what the research says about the performance of option investments across different stocks.
Industry and factor momentum should be viewed as recent developments in the wider momentum story, although these aggregated measures of momentum lack any theoretical foundation.
We study the cross-section of stock returns using a novel constructed database of U.S. stocks covering 61 years of independent data.