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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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