Passive investors are known for being steady. They don't follow every fluctuation in price, or listen to trading floor gossip. That passive approach may be messing up price signals and making business decisions harder, according to research from the Eccles School's Jonathan Brogaard and Matthew Ringgenberg. Discover how in The Atlantic.
Turns out we might still need humans on trading floors. New research from Eccles School professors Jonathan Brogaard and Matthew Ringgenberg shows that when face-to-face trading became too dangerous in the recent pandemic, "we find that floor traders are important contributors to market quality, even in the age of algorithmic trading. The suspension of floor trading leads to higher effective spreads, volatility, and pricing [...]
Short sellers are collectively right much more often than they are wrong, according to new research from the Eccles School's Matthew Ringgenberg, and that could be good news for investors. Read more about the findings in The Wall Street Journal.
Human behavior can be an odd thing, and it's something that can drastically affect important parts of our lives, including our economy. "Even markets with some rational participants can behave irrationally. Speculation can move prices around for irrational reasons, and rational traders often either can’t or won’t bother to correct them," according to a Bloomberg article that cites the research of Matthew Ringgenberg, associate [...]