Warrington in the News Articles: page 19

Insights from Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter show that the last two years were the slowest period for new IPOs in more than 40 years. But with a recent 100 new IPO filings from companies, a major rebound for the IPO market could be in the offing.

New research from PricewaterhouseCoopers Professor Liangfei Qiu and Robert B. Carter Professor Praveen Pathak highlights that despite the fears of regulators and skittish investors, clear and accurate signals of cryptocurrency quality may be hidden in plain sight. Forthcoming in Journal of Management Information Systems, the recent paper is the first to examine whether the intensity of developer engagement with a cryptocurrency could indeed be related to its quality.

It’s not uncommon for managers to continue thinking about their job, even after the official workday is over. But new research from Martin L. Schaffel Professor Klodiana Lanaj and alumna Remy Jennings (Ph.D. ’22) shows that this tendency may not be beneficial, particularly for people new to a leadership role.

Conventional wisdom and so-called ‘never buy’ lists will tell you that there are certain things that are rarely worth spending your money on. But are these lines of guidance rules to live and make purchase decisions by?

City Furniture Professor Aner Sela, an expert on how people make choices and form preferences, says that the answer to that question is a definitive “no”.

Despite a rocky 2023 for companies going public, the Nasdaq is still on pace to lead new listings for the fifth straight year, according to Dealogic. Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter joins Yahoo Finance’s Rachelle Akuffo to discuss the IPO outlook for 2024.

Associate Professor Aaron Hill studied 1,027 decisions to enter foreign markets made by Fortune 500 CEOs over the past decade and examined the executives’ political-campaign contributions to determine their leanings. He found that conservative leaders were more likely to acquire companies than to form alliances, while for liberal leaders it was just the reverse. The conclusion: Conservative CEOs pursue riskier international deals than liberals do.

David F. Miller Retail Center Executive Director and Clinical Professor Joel Davis comments on the possible economic reasons why Costco hasn’t opened a location in Gainesville.

Matherly Professor Anuj Kumar explores how we can leverage peers to motivate and help students learn in K-12 schools as part of his greater research with the RightWalk Foundation. As part of this work, Kumar built the EPInc platform – an AI-based integrated knowledge diffusion platform for K-12 schools, which aims to create a uniform and higher overall educational production (cognitive and non-cognitive) in K-12 classrooms with scarce educational resources.

University Distinguished Professor, Lanzillotti-McKethan Eminent Scholar Chair and Associate Dean for Research and Strategic Initiatives Mo Wang chaired the American Psychological Association (APA) working group of ten people who formulated recommendations for authors, reviewers and editors on how to address race, ethnicity and culture more equitably when publishing research.

As part of Marketplace’s “I’ve Always Wondered” series, Assistant Professor Alejandro Lopez-Lira explains that in theory, algorithms could be programmed to beat the market if their trading behavior is obvious, but firms can make algorithms trade in a way that obscures what they’re doing.