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Five Yale SOM students have been selected by faculty members involved with the Behavioral Finance Initiative and awarded a Whitebox Advisors Doctoral Fellowship for the 2017-2018 academic year.

Recent Yale School of Management graduate, Alex Bigler '17, shares her perspective on her experiences during two conferences in Milan, Italy this past March held jointly by The Prada Group, Yale School of Management, and Politecnico di Milano Scho

Several ICF Advisory Board members participated in a tour through financial history on May 11, 2017 led by Professors William Goetzmann and Geert Rouwenhorst.

The one-week program, an intensive PhD course in behavioral finance, brought more than 40 students from the United States and Europe to the Yale School of Management from June 19 to 23.

Some of our most important decisions are shaped by something as random as the order in which we make them. The gambler’s fallacy, as it’s known, affects loan officers, federal judges — and probably you too. How to avoid it?

Yale School of Management professor, Gary Gorton discusses how money was created.

Finance is at the heart of civilization and has been used for good and ill since time began.

Richard Aedy speaks with William Goetzmann about his book Money Changes Everything: how finance made civilization possible.

When Pablo Picasso’s “Les Femmes d’Alger (Version O)” sold at Christie’s in New York for $179 million dollars in May 2015, it was only the 36th time in the past 315 years that a world auction record had been set, and the sale raised questions well

Whatever banking’s post-recession connotations may be, the historian William Goetzmann argues that monetary innovations have always played a critical role in developing civilization.