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    Corporate Crypto Assets and Fair-Value Accounting: Evolving Practices in the Digital Age

    The study reveals that many firms treated crypto like investment assets rather than intangibles, foreshadowing the new fair-value standards under ASU 2023-08.

    11/25/2025 | By Jonathan Shipman

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    Stronger Together? How Social Networks Shape Global M&A Success

    CEO networks and bilateral ties increase shareholder value in global mergers and acquisitions when paired with strong formal financial institutions.

    07/08/2025 | By Kaslyn Tidmore; Dobrina Jandik and Tomas Jandik

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    Breaking the Bond Code: New Research Can Improve Investor Decisions

    New research identifies the strongest functioning corporate bond performance models, enhancing investment analysis for investors, fund managers, and regulators.

    06/17/2025 | By Meghan Perry; Tim Riley

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    The Perils of Personal Connections in Mergers and Acquisitions

    Friendships between CEOs and their financial advisors can foster improved communication, but these same relationships prove to be detrimental for M&A deals.

    11/12/2024 | By Kaslyn Tidmore; Dobrina Jandik and Tomas Jandik

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    How Global Gender Norms Affect Financial Markets in a Crisis

    Promoting gender equality boosts financial participation; countries with positive attitudes on women's rights had smaller stock market losses during COVID.

    03/05/2024 | By Alyssa Riley; Dobrina Jandik

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    Arkansas Is Advancing the Future of Banking

    Walton Executive Education, Arkansas Business Association collaborate on a new white paper detailing what the future of banking could - and should - look like.

    08/03/2023 | By Faith Raun

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    Social Capital Shields Office Real Estate Market

    What makes an organization resilient enough to withstand an unexpectated shock like COVID-19? Read about how social capital protects office real estate.

    06/13/2023 | By Mitchell Simpson, Dobrina Jandik

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    Investing in Each Other: Equity Crowdfunding 101

    Equity crowdfunding creates new opportunities for both investors and founders. Far more people can get involved in meaningful - and local/regional - investing.

    05/03/2022 | By Cash Acrey

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    Why Grace Periods Don’t Help Some Borrowers

    People are hard to predict, especially where money is concerned. Read to find out how finance experts explain a common tendency among borrowers.

    01/24/2022 | By Evan Wordlaw, Kuan Liu

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    Everything Must Go! Mutual Funds’ Role During Fire Sales

    While Zhang, Zhang, and Wang found that there is relatively less liquidity provision in the market during the Dodd-Frank era because of new regulatory constraints, the act of liquidity provision is still an important signal for investors as they vet fund managers.

    12/06/2021 | By Mitchell Simpson, Xinde Zhang

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    It Pays To Be Connected: CEOs With High Social Capital Earn Greater Stock Returns

    Some CEOs earn significantly more than others in the stock market. Walton College researchers have discovered what they have in common.

    10/08/2021 | By Dobrina Jandik, Tomas Jandik, Lucas Cuni-Mertz

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    Stress Test Allows Community Banks To Predict How They’ll Handle Economic Crises

    Planning for financial crises can seem a daunting task; thankfully, Walton College researchers have created a downloadable, free stress test for community banks.

    10/01/2021 | By Tim Yeager, Lucas Cuni-Mertz

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    What Student-Managed Investment Funds Teach Everyone

    Student-managed investment funds (SMIF) are no joke. Arkansas's Rebsamen SMIF often beats industry benchmarks & has seen a steady increase in returns since 1996.

    09/24/2021 | By Jeff Wright

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    Master of Finance Degree Sets Up Grads for the Digital Economy

    The finance faculty at the University of Arkansas began noticing a trend a few years ago during field trips to visit companies across the region. While job titles remained largely unchanged, descriptions of the actual work finance majors were doing was shifting.

    04/08/2021 | By Stephen Caldwell

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    Beat the Street: Stock Analysts, Credit Risk, and the Lack of Negative Earnings Forecasts

    You may have to spend money to make money, but it never hurts to make sure you see the whole picture.

    08/07/2020 | By Michael Adkison, Samar Ashour

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    Can Active Managers Beat the Market?

    How easy is it to beat the market? Even for skilled money managers, it is not easy.

    07/24/2020 | By Ryan Decker, Tim Riley

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    The Almighty Dollar: How Presidential Political Parties Affect the Value of U.S. Currency

    Does the political affiliation in power affect the strength of the dollar? Bluntly put, is the dollar stronger under Democratic or Republican presidents?

    05/08/2020 | By Michael Adkison, Samar Ashour

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    COVID-19’s Unique Impact on Healthcare Supply Chains

    Times of crisis often need to be contextualized – that’s why you have likely seen news articles comparing the financial fallout of COVID-19 against other crises: the Great Recession of a decade ago, Black Monday of 1987 and even the Great Depression.

    04/17/2020 | By Michael Adkison, Tim Yeager

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