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Department: Senior Lecturer, Finance
Contact: (617) 226-1789, jdetore@mit.edu
Expertise: Analysts forecasts; Arbitrage pricing theory; Asset management and pricing; Bayesian statistics; Capital market; Component software technologies; Contagion; Currency; Data acquisition; Data storage; Earnings management; Earnings manipulations; Equities; Financial econometrics; Financial engineering; Financial information technology; Financial markets; Financial services; Futures; Hedge funds; Information technology for management; Investment analysis; Investment risk; Investment strategies; Leverage; Management of information technology; Market, categorical structures in; Meltdown; Mutual funds; Portfolio choice; Portfolio construction; Portfolio design and management; Probability, applied; Risk capital; Risk management; Risk models; Security prices; Simulation; Stock market; Stock valuation; Trading decisions; Valuation; Wall Street
Ronald A. Kurtz (1954) Professor of Entrepreneurship
Department: Professor of Global Economics and Management
Contact: 617-290-9618, sjohnson@mit.edu
Expertise: Corporate governance; Economic crisis; Economics; Economy, current conditions; Entrepreneurship / New ventures; Government; New stock markets; Political economy; Sustainability; Tax policy; Trade policy; Unemployment; United States; Venture capital
Contact: (617) 252-1131, mkhan@mit.edu
Expertise: Accounting, domestic; Accounting, international; Analysts forecasts; Asset management and pricing; Bankruptcy; Capital market; Corporate finance; Corporate governance; Disclosure; Dividend policy; Earnings management; Earnings manipulations; Economic crisis; Economy, current conditions; Education; Equities; Financial reporting; Financial services; Financial statement analysis; Hedge funds; Investment risk; Investment strategies; Middle East; Mutual funds; Pakistan; Security prices; Stock market; Valuation; Wall Street
Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor
Department: Professor of Finance
Contact: (617) 253-0920, alo@mit.edu
Expertise: Analysts forecasts; Angel investing; Applied economics; Applied math; Applied probability; Arbitrage pricing theory; Artificial intelligence; Asset management and pricing; Banking; Banking management; Banking operations and policy; Banking regulation; Bankruptcy; Bayesian networks; Bayesian statistics; Bond markets; Bond negotiations; Bond pricing; Business education; Business intelligence; Business plans; Capital budgeting; Capital controls; Capital market; CEO compensation; Chat rooms, investment; Consumer behavior; Contagion; Corporate finance; Corporate governance; Corporate strategy and policy; Currency; Data acquisition; Data mining; Decision making, decision support; Deflation; Derivatives; Disaster recovery; Distance learning; Diversification, corporate; Dividend policy; Dot-com; E-commerce; Econometrics; Economic crisis; Economics; Economy, current conditions; Education; Emerging businesses; Entrepreneurial finance; Entrepreneurial management; Entrepreneurship / New ventures; Equities; Euro; Exchange rates; Executive compensation; Executive education; Federal Reserve; Financial econometrics; Financial engineering; Financial information technology; Financial markets; Financial reporting; Financial services; Financial statement analysis; Foreign investment; Futures; Government; Hedge funds; Hurdle rates; Inflation; Information technology; Information technology, artificial intelligence; Intellectual property; Intellectual property law; Interest rates; International finance; Intertemporal choice; Investment analysis; Investment banking; Investment risk; Investment strategies; Knowledge sharing; Law; Macroeconomics; Market, categorical structures in; Mathematical programming; MBA; Mergers and acquisitions; Mortgage funds; Mutual funds; Neural networks; New stock markets; New ventures; Non-linear dynamics; Online banking; Online feedback mechanisms; Operations research; Optimal control; Optimization; Options; Patents; Pensions; Personal finance; Portfolio choice; Portfolio design and management; Private equity; Probability, applied; Research and development; Research, academic; Retirement planning; Revenue management; Risk capital; Risk management; Sampling; Securities and Exchange Commission; Security prices; Simulation; Software agents; Startups; Statistics; Stochastic modeling; Stock exchange; Stock exchange consolidation; Stock market; Stock options; Stock trading; Sub-prime lending; Technology; Trading decisions; Treasuries; Valuation; Venture capital; Wall Street; Web-based marketing
Franco Modigliani Professor of Financial Economics
Department: Professor of Finance
Contact: (617) 258-8371, sross@mit.edu
Expertise: Applied economics; Arbitrage pricing theory; Asia; Asset management and pricing; Banking; Bond pricing; Capital market; CEO compensation; Contagion; Corporate strategy and policy; Currency; Derivatives; Economics; Equities; Europe; Exchange rates; Executive compensation; Federal Reserve; Financial econometrics; Financial engineering; Financial information technology; Financial markets; Financial services; Futures; Hedge funds; Investment analysis; Investment risk; Investment strategies; Mortgage funds; Mutual funds; Options; Options pricing, valuation; Personal finance; Portfolio choice; Portfolio design and management; Retirement planning; Risk capital; Security prices; Stock exchange; Stock market; Stock trading; Treasuries; Valuation; Wall Street
Mizuho Financial Group Professor
Department: Professor of Finance
Contact: (617) 253-2632, wangj@mit.edu
Expertise: Arbitrage pricing theory; Asset management and pricing; Bond pricing; Capital market; China; Contagion; Currency; Derivatives; Equities; Financial engineering; Financial markets; Futures; Investment risk; Investment strategies; Market microstructure; Mutual funds; Options; Options pricing, valuation; Portfolio choice; Portfolio design and management; Security prices; Stock exchange; Stock market; Stock trading; Trading decisions; Treasuries
From WBUR Cognoscenti Americans are spending more money at the pump than ever before. According to a recent estimate by the Energy Department, the average U.S. household spent nearly $3,000 on gasoline last year. Earlier this month, the U.S. Energy Information Administration forecast that the price for regular gasoline will average $3.63 a gallon this summer — a slight decline from last summer, not far from the record levels set in 2008. Why do oil prices remain so stubbornly high? According to some in Washington, the blame lies with “speculators” — investors who buy and sell oil futures contracts to bet on the price of oil. As they see it, these scheming speculators — which may be individuals, but can also be mutual funds, hedge funds, or other investment institutions — inject billions of dollars into commodity exchanges in pursuit of a limited number of barrels, which in turn drives up … Read More »The post Think speculators cause high oil prices? Don’t bet on it — Christopher Knittel and Robert Pindyck appeared first on MIT Sloan Experts.
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