Is there a crisis in financial academic research?

Research

It may sound like a low-budget Blade Runner rip-off, but over the past decade the scientific world has been gripped by a “replication crisis” — the findings of many seminal studies cannot be repeated, with huge implications. Is investing suffering from something similar? That is the incendiary argument of Campbell Harvey, professor of finance at … Read more

14 Modern Financial Legends: Interviewed

In 2004, The American Finance Association Board approved a project to record aspects of the history of finance. Stephen Buser was appointed AFA’s Historian with the mission to produce video interviews with important contributors to financial economic knowledge. Eugene Fama Paul A. Samuelson Robert C. Merton Michael Jensen Myron Scholes Ken Arrow Jack Treynor Richard … Read more