The International Center For Finance at the Yale School of Management provides active support for research in Financial Economics by its fellows and disseminates their work to the world's academic and professional communities. Please see papers below for the latest research at the International Center for Finance.
2011
$100 bills on the sidewalk: Suboptimal investment in 401(k) plans
2010
Convertible bond arbitrageurs as suppliers of capital
2009
Preferences with frames: a new utility specification that allows for the framing of risks
2008
Stocks as Lotteries: The implications of probability weighting for security prices
The panic of 2007
Understanding recent trends in house prices and home ownership
More social security, not less
Mandatory disclosure and operational risk: Evidence from hedge fund registration
Estimating the dynamics of mutual fund alphas and betas
2007
Efficiency and the bear: Short sales and markets around the world
Price bubbles sans dividend anchors: Evidence from laboratory stock markets
Improved forecasting of mutual fund alphas and betas
Portfolio performance manipulation and manipulation-proof performance measures
Portfolio performance manipulation and manipulation-proof performance measures
Portfolio performance manipulation and manipulation-proof performance measures
Low interest rates and high asset prices: An interpretation in terms of changing popular economic models
2006
The joint determination of audit fees, non-audit fees, and abnormal accruals
Individual Preferences, Monetary Gambles, and Stock Market Participation: A Case for Narrow Framing
Up close and personal: An individual level analysis of the disposition effect
2005
This series, edited by Geert Rouwenhorst and Will Goetzmann, along with several ICF fellows Howard Bodenhorn and Eugene White, raises the broad awareness of the importance of history in the consideration of current economy.
ICF Book Publications
The Origins of Corporations The Mills of Toulouse in the Middle Ages
Germain Sicard proves that Europe’s first corporations were fourteenth-century mill companies operating in Toulouse, rather than seventeenth-century English and Dutch trading companies as commonly believed. He shows that the corporate form derives from a unique ownership contract from Medieval Europe called pariage, and a culture of strong property rights and municipal self-governance. Based on archival research, Sicard’s 1952 thesis has been translated into English with an introduction that places the work in the context of new institutional economics and legal theory. It is an important contribution to research on the history and legal origins of the corporation.
The Great Mirror of Folly, Finance, Culture, and the Stock Market Crash of 1720
The world’s first global stock market bubble suddenly burst in 1720, destroying the dreams and fortunes of speculators in London, Paris, and Amsterdam virtually overnight. The co-editors are Geert Rouwenhorst, Will Goetzmann, Catherine Labio, Associate Professor of English at the University of Colorado-Boulder, and Tim Young, Associate Curator of Modern Books & Manuscripts at the Beinecke Library.
The Origins of Value: The Financial Innovations that Created Modern Capital Markets
From the invention of interest in Mesopotamia and the origin of paper money in China, to the creation of mutual funds, inflation-indexed bonds, and global financial securities, here is a sweeping survey of financial innovations that have changed the world. Written by a distinguished group of experts--including Robert Shiller, Niall Ferguson, Valerie Hansen, and many others--and wonderfully illustrated with over one hundred color photographs of landmark financial documents (including the first paper money), The Origins of Value traces the evolution of finance through 4,000 years of history.
Upcoming Publications
The Origins of Value: The Financial Innovations that Created Modern Capital Markets (Chinese version)