Finance Group

  The first published paper that I know of to document that returns are predictable across stocks was published in 1972. In that paper, the authors showed that price level predicts returns in that low priced stocks tend to have higher returns than high priced stocks. Since then, this has been an active research area with numerous academic papers showing that various strategies based on observable firm traits (e.g., size, past performance) can predict returns across stocks. In research conducted…
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On Saturday, December 8th, the 15th Annual MIT Venture Capital Conference was held at MIT’s very own Media Lab. In this all day event, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and students came together around fast-paced panels and hard hitting keynotes dealing with the intersection of entrepreneurship and venture capital. This year’s conference included a packed schedule that started with Registration at 7:30am, and ended at 5pm with the finale of our Startup Showdown. The people voted and our judges determined Gradeable to…
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With renewed investment and focus, MIT Sloan asks how global finance faltered and how it can be saved. Read more in the new issue of MIT Sloan Alumni Magazine.