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Quantitative Easing, Helicopter Money, and the Coronavirus Crisis

Helicopter with falling money

Exceptional economic and financial crises often demand exceptional remedies.  It was in this spirit that many governments, fearing another Great Depression, intervened heavily in their economies during the 2007-2009 financial crisis.  While the adopted fiscal actions, involving both government expenditures and tax cuts, were quite substantial, they were nevertheless easily eclipsed by the massive levels of central bank monetary interventions.  In the United States, for example, the level of…

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Are U.S. Stocks Expensive?

By Dr. Hassan Shirvani—-As U.S. stock prices reach new historic highs, many investors are now wondering if another stock market cycle of boom and bust is at hand.  Indeed, many financial advisors are already recommending a shifting away from stocks into safer investments such as cash and bonds.  While predicting future stock price movements is…

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Study Abroad: My Experience in Europe

By Tracy Nguyen—I always knew I wanted to study abroad during my graduate career. I applied and was accepted to be a part of the University of St. Thomas European study abroad and was extremely elated to find out that I would have the opportunity to travel to London, England; Strasbourg, France; and Frankfurt, Germany.…

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ACG Competiton: CSB Finance Students are Victorious

Cameron School of Business (CSB) students from The University of St. Thomas participated for the first year in the 2016 ACG competition held in Houston, Texas. The team of finance students was lead and coached by Dr. Debby Su, Assistant Professor of Finance. The CSB students won second place in 2016 ACG case competition and…

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Procrastination and Earning Announcements

By Dr. Debby (Chih-Huei) Su—Procrastination is prevalent in human nature. Psychologists have conducted tons of surveys, experiments and research, looking for causes and cures for procrastination. Commonly mentioned causes of procrastination include, but are not limited to, the following: lack of motivation self-regulatory failure[1] stress, or physical illness[2]   Cures for Procrastination Researchers and academic…

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Puerto Rico: Is it America’s Greece? (Part I)

By Dr. Pierre Canac—This is a two-part blog; the second part will appear next week. I usually write about international economics; however, this time I will let the reader decide whether this is what I am doing in this post. The Status of Puerto Rico Puerto Rico is a Commonwealth or a territory that belongs…

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Behavioral Finance:Two Cases of Stock Price Manipulation

By Nguyen Nguyen–On November 6th, the financial world was flooded with news of the indictment of a man using Twitter to manipulate stock market prices. It rang the bells of behavioral finance: noise trading, overreaction, and psychological biases. It is not new that individual investors “trade on noise as if it were information”(Black, 1986). However,…

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Can There Be Too Much Finance?

By Dr. Pierre Canac –Finance certainly plays an indispensable and positive role in promoting economic growth and overall employment. However there is some evidence that the relationship between financial development and GDP growth is not linear, but instead has an inverse U-shape. As the size of the financial sector gets larger, at first GDP growth…

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Investor Sentiment and Global Exchange Traded Funds

By Dr. Gulfem Bayram — The exchange traded funds (ETFs) are securities that track stock indexes, commodities, or baskets of assets, and they are traded on stock markets just like individual stocks. These unique securities have become increasingly popular in recent years as they offer greater diversity and flexibility for individual investors. Rapid Growth of…

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Bitcoin: Fails as a Solution to Double-Spending

  A few years ago the world was introduced to Bitcoin; the brainchild of Satoshi Nakamoto; It is not the first crypto currency created, but certainly the most widely held. Bitcoin was built to address a very specific problem, Nakamoto coins it “double-spending.” E-commerce from the very beginning has relied on financial institutions to act…

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