The Hometown Advantage: How Local CEOs Lower a Firm's Cost of Equity

A new study shows the carrot is more effective than the stick in incentivizing bank compliance with capital requirements.

The era of provocative girls, the (not very) sustainable practices of H&M and Coca-Cola, silent employees and the personality traits of a leader. We have collected our most-read stories of the year.

Improving human wellbeing on a finite planet creates significant new investment opportunities in eco-Infrastructure.

It's important that actors in financial markets follow ethical practices. In her research, Loreta Rapushi looks at how firms and investors behave, and why they do what they do.

Winning EU funding for his finance research, Sven Klingler compares himself to a geologist studying earthquakes.

Customers play a critical role in their success, but most mergers and acquisitions still fail to include the all-important customer-based perspective.

There remains a great deal of debate about such things as the sex-linked glass ceiling, cliff, escalator, and the ‘sticky’ floor. But are career opportunities that much different for men and women?

Norges Bank Watch believe that Norges Bank did its best to contribute to curbing the risk premiums during the first wave of the pandemic. But are critical regarding how the central bank handled higher money market premiums in the second half of 2020.

Central bank communication indirectly reaches the general public by affecting news media coverage on topics of particular relevance for monetary policy decisions. Media can have a sizeable effect on economic outcomes.

A better understanding of the forces behind growing inequality and how households might respond differently to economic shocks and policy are key motivational factors in a new research project at BI, which studies the macro economic impact of differences in household’s consumption, income and wealth.

A review of 72 studies makes the financial case for ESG.

A convicted felon defends fraud.