Capital Markets and Investments

Faculty members shared their thoughts on Facebook's IPO leading up to Friday's opening bell where Facebook (FB) traded for the first time at $38 per share.

Study shows retail investors can predict future stock returns

Michael Perelstein, adjunct professor of finance and economics at Columbia Business School, died Saturday, March 17.

Professor Bruce Kogut recently co-authored an article describing how bringing philanthropic and investment capital together effectively could increase capacity to address pressing social challenges and how savvy financial structuring would be necessary to make this work.

A recent study by Columbia Business School Professor Geert Bekaert in the Review of Financial Studies proposes a new, valuation–based measure of equity market segmentation. 

Four Columbia Business School faculty members shared their expertise as part of a special panel, “Understanding the Euro Crisis,” moderated by Dean Glenn Hubbard, on Thursday, February 2 at the School.

Three Columbia Business School faculty members have received 2011 Dean’s awards for teaching an elective.

A study conducted by Columbia Business School’s Prof. Stephan Meier, Regina Pitaro Associate Professor of Business, Management, and Charles Sprenger, Assistant Professor, Stanford University Department of Economics, determines that there may be a psychological reason for why people default on their mortgages.

Report by Columbia Business School professor discusses flaws in eurozone design, potential solutions for the euro area crisis, and potential outcomes

Hedge funds are moderately leveraged, leverage is counter-cyclical to the leverage of banks and the finance sector, and hedge fund leverage was at its lowest during the financial crisis in 2008