Finance Faculty in the News: March 2020

Nicholas Barberis

• “From Chalkboards to Zoom Rooms: Teaching During COVID-19,” Yale Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning

James Choi

• “What the Plunge in the Stock Market Means for Individual Investors,” Yale Insights

William B. English

• “The Race to Subzero: John B. Taylor et al. on Monetary Policy in the 21st Century,” The Politic
• “With latest moves, Fed becomes creditor in chief for U.S. business,” Nasdaq
• “Negative interest rates, explained – and how they could turn the world of banking upside down,” Bankrate.com
• “The Fed is pulling out all the stops – which is both good and bad,” NBC News
• “Six questions about the stock market meltdown,” The Boston Globe
• “After Slashing Rates, U.S. Fed Has More Weapons to Fight Coronavirus Effect,” The New York Times
• “Fed virus-driven cut may test new approach to inflation,” Reuters
• “Lawmakers Say Banks Need Guidance on Virus-Related Workarounds,” Bloomberg
• “Federal Reserve Cuts Rates by Half Percentage Point to Combat Virus Fear,” The Wall Street Journal
• “Even after a half-point rate cut, the market is expecting the Fed to do a lot more,” CNBC

Stefano Giglio

• “Investor Expectations of US Equity Markets Surprisingly Muted,” National Association of Plan Advisors

William Goetzmann

• “Opinion: The anxiety stock market investors feel about the pandemic in the markets is not perfectly logical, but it is quite real,” MarketWatch
• “We Can’t Prevent Market Panics. We Can Control How We React.” The Wall Street Journal
• “Crashes and COVID-19 in Historical Context,” Yale Insights
• “The Stock Market Grapples With Coronavirus: How Bad Could It Get?” Connecticut Public Radio

Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham

• “Making Sense of A Record-Breaking Wave of Unemployment Claims,” Yale Insights
• “Ahead of Thursday’s Jobless Claims, The Devil is in the Revisions,” Forbes
• “The Coronavirus crisis led to a record-breaking spike in weekly unemployment insurance claims,” Economic Policy Institute
• “As Economy Shifts, Length of Lockdown Will Dictate Recovery Speed,” Courthouse News Service
• “9 charts showing what coronavirus is doing to the economy,” Vox
• “Analysis: More workers filed for unemployment last week than any other in U.S. history,” Salon.com
• “More than 3 Million Americans Lost Their Jobs Last Week. See Your State.” The New York Times
• “Coronavirus Pandemic Has Led to a Record-Breaking Spike in Weekly Unemployment Insurance Claims,” Common Dreams
• “'This Chart, Holy Sh*t': Analysis Shows More Workers Filed for Unemployment Last Week Than Any Other in US History,” Common Dreams
• “Study Finds Declaring Bankruptcy May Not Hurt Future Employment Prospects,” Yale Insights
• “There’s a growing gender gap in home ownership,” The Business Journals
• “Women have less property price growth than men, US study finds,” Domain

Roger Ibbotson

• “Roger G. Ibbotson: What Works in Asset Allocation,” CFA Institute
• “Yale SOM Takes its Online Stock Trading Game Public,” Yale School of Management

Bryan T. Kelly

• “Quant experts win top Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy award,” Pensions & Investments

Song Ma

• “Unsanitized: Covidien’s Story Is Corporate America’s Story,” The American Prospect

Andrew Metrick

• “Coronavirus forecasts worsen as experts say trillions of dollars needed to stimulate economy back to health,” Red Green and Blue
• “Washington will have to spend more than just $1 trillion to prevent economic calamity,” CNN
• “As Recession Looms, Priority Is Lessening Severity, Easing Financial Stress,” The Wall Street Journal

Tobias J. Moskowitz

• “The Side Effects of Social Distancing {Ep. 409},” Freakonomics

Robert Shiller

• “Opinion: The anxiety stock market investors feel about the pandemic in the markets is not perfectly logical, but it is quite real,” MarketWatch
• “Opinion: If you do this now, you might be able to double your retirement portfolio,” Market Watch
• “Where’s the bottom for stocks? By this important measure, they may have hit fair value,” Fortune
• “The Stock Market Crash of 1987: What Can We Learn from “Black Monday”?,” Coin Codex
• “The Race to Subzero: John B. Taylor et al. on Monetary Policy in the 21st Century,” The Politic
• “Can history guide investors through the coronavirus crash?,” The Irish Times
• “A Simple Investing Playbook for the ‘Great Cessation’,” The Wall Street Journal
• “Famed economist Rober Shiller doesn’t think we are headed for another Great Recession,” Fortune
• “Your Money: Coronavirus fears shake Yale economist Robert Shiller,” Reuters
• “How to Stop Worrying and Love a Falling Stock Market,” The New York Times
• “Why Buying a Home Right Now Could Be a Good Idea (Podcast),” Bloomberg
• “Robert Shiller: Coronavirus outbreak is creating a ‘dangerous time’ for markets,” CNBC
• “Nobel prize winning economist Robert Shiller says this economic disruption is different,” Quartz
• “Investor psychology tips for surviving Covid-19,” The Irish Times
• “Two epidemics combine to make for a ‘dangerous time for the stock market,’ Nobel Prize-winning economist warns,” MarketWatch
• “Robert Shiller: Coronavirus panic has not hit peak levels yet,” CNBC
• “Yale’s Shiller on Economic Fallout From Virus, Fed Policy and Housing,” Bloomberg
• “Oil Crash and Coronavirus Roil Markets (Podcast),” Bloomberg
• “Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events – Book Review,” LSE Business Review

Kelly Shue

• “There’s a growing gender gap in home ownership,” The Business Journals
• “Women have less property price growth than men, US study finds,” Domain