Warrington in the News Articles: page 18

Research data from Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter informs this story about how businesses are burning through cash raised in SPAC deals with few ways to fill the gap.

Research insights from Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter inform this story on how dual-class structures have become much more prevalent among U.S. tech firms.

Silencing your notifications and ignoring your email at the end of the workday could make you a better leader at your job, according to new research from Martin L. Schaffel Professor Klodiana Lanaj and Ph.D. alumna and Florida State University Assistant Professor Remy Jennings.

ChatGPT can’t see the future, but it already has value for investors looking to predict future moves in the stock market. That’s according to a new research paper published Monday in the Social Science Research Network by Assistant Professor Alejandro Lopez-Lira and Emerson-Merrill Lynch Associate Professor Yuehua Tang.

Dearth of IPOs and increase in go-private deals limit information on potential suppliers’ financial health. ‘All else being equal, we will favor a public vendor,’ says one CIO. Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter shares his insights.

Assistant Professor Alejandro Lopez-Lira and Emerson-Merrill Lynch Associate Professor Yuehua Tang find that large language models may be useful when forecasting stock prices. They used ChatGPT to parse news headlines for whether they’re good or bad for a stock, and found that ChatGPT’s ability to predict the direction of the next day’s returns were much better than random.

Since 2019, the number of billion-dollar, venture-backed companies in the world has grown from 223 to 704 with a combined value of $2.3 trillion. Becoming a unicorn has been the ideal for many tech startups: it feeds the ego, leads to more publicity, breeds confidence and ultimately works to attract top-notch talent and customers. Yet new research and a look at historical IPOs suggest that many of those companies may not be worth as much as they say. Research insights from Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter and Ph.D. student Minmo Gahng inform this story.

Huber Hurst Professor of Business Law Robert Emerson shares his franchising insights as part of a panel discussion on The Law and Economics of Franchising at the Franchise Times Legal Eagles Virtual Summit on April 12. The free virtual summit begins at 10 am CDT.

Jack Kramer Term Associate Professor Michael Mayberry and Assistant Professor Scott Rane are co-authors of a new paper that finds that the risk-incentivizing component of option compensation is positively associated with conforming tax avoidance, while value-creation component of option compensation is negatively associated with conforming tax avoidance.

Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter shares insights on the US equity capital markets having the slowest start to a year since 2009, and dealmakers fear a rebound is nowhere near.