For the purpose of measuring the entire United States market, including small stocks, many academics and professional investors prefer another market-weighted index: the CRSP U.S.
In the 15 months since Madhav V. Rajan took over the deanship of the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago, Booth has won yet another Nobel Prize for a faculty member and landed in first place in U.S.
Elon Musk wants to take Tesla Inc private, but some of his big investors may not be able to follow. Most passive funds would have to drop Tesla if it were removed from stock indexes, experts said on Monday.
The Chicago Booth Reviewrecently spoke with CRSP Board member Douglas Diamond regarding lessons learned from the 2007-10 financial crisis and whether or not the ensuing regulation has made our economy less vulnerable to another crisis. In the “Footnotes” section of the magazine, CRSP Board Chairman Eugene Fama weighs in on market efficiency, active management, and corporate governance among other topics, and explains why investors shouldn’t buy hedge funds.
For this report, Elsevier drew on its expertise in mining the Scopus abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature to comprehensively evaluate two gender-based aspects of the global research enterprise: (1) the landscape of global researchers—their publication productivity, imp
One of the world's top financial economists said his current research made him concerned that credit was once again being granted too liberally, just as it was before the 2008 meltdown.
In 1996, more than 8,000 companies were listed on U.S. stock exchanges. Today, that figure is less than half, according to the Center fro Research in Security Prices at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business.
According to a report published by Burton-Taylor International Consulting, part of TP ICAP group, 2016 saw an increase of 3.45 percent in global spending of financial information, ultimately reaching a figure of $27.48 billion during the year.
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