Finance

Amanda Heitz received the Best Paper Award from the International Conference on Banking and Economic Development for her paper “Creditor Rights, Information Sharing and Borrower Behavior: Theory and Evidence."

Bill Reese, professor of practice in finance, contributed to Real Simple's article "8 Budgeting Hacks That Will Allow You to Gift Everyone on Your Holiday List — Without Going Into Debt."

Louis Baugier had a 360-degree view of the dizzying, fast-paced business of New York real estate. By day, Baugier (BSM '13) was part of J.P. Morgan’s global real estate group, where he worked on big Manhattan development projects.…

Paddy Sivadasan and Xuhui "Nick" Pan are the 2017 recipients of the Dean's Excellence in Teaching Award, the Freeman School's highest honor for classroom teaching.

The A. B. Freeman School of Business celebrates Tulane University Homecoming and Graduate Reunion Weekend on Nov. 3 -5 with a full slate of events for alumni, parents and friends.

Continuing the historic faculty recruiting effort that began in 2012, Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of Business welcomes seven new full-time professors to the faculty for the 2017-18 academic year.

Celebrating a milestone graduation anniversary this year? Register now for the A. B. Freeman School of Business Graduate Reunion Weekend! Scheduled to coincide with Tulane Homecoming, this year’s reunion takes place Nov. 3-5.

Xuhui “Nick” Pan's paper “Oil Volatility Risk and Expected Stock Returns” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Banking and Finance.

Nishad Kapadia and Morad Zekhnini’s paper “Getting Paid to Hedge: Why Don't Investors Pay a Premium to Hedge Downturns?” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.

Oleg Gredil’s paper “Do Private Equity Funds Manipulate Reported Returns?”, co-authored with Gregory W. Brown and Steven N. Kaplan, has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Financial Economics.

Robert Prilmeier’s paper “Why Does Fast Loan Growth Predict Poor Performance for Banks?”, co-authored with Rüdiger Fahlenbrach and René Stulz, has been accepted for publication in the Review of Financial Studies.

Marshall Wadleigh’s story of accomplishment is a testament that hard work breeds success. The Tulane University senior from Pearl River, Louisiana, maintained a 4.0 grade point average as a walk-on member of the Tulane football program…

A team of Master of Finance students from Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of Business won first place at the TIPS 2017 Student Portfolio Managers Competition.

Based on its performance since 2001, Thomson Reuters Lipper ranked the Hancock Horizon Burkenroad Small Cap Fund No. 1 in the small cap blended category.

Can unethical behavior at the individual level predict wrongdoing at the corporate level? That’s a question William Grieser, assistant professor of finance at Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of Business, sought to answer with…

New research from a professor at Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of Business offers the first hard data on the economic cost of political uncertainty.

Beginning in January, users of S&P Capital IQ will be able to access Burkenroad Reports, the Freeman School's acclaimed equity research program.S&P Global Market Intelligence, a leading provider of research, data and analytics…

Venkat Subramaniam's paper "Impact of Financial Leverage on the Incidence and Severity of Product Failures: Evidence from Product Recalls" has been accepted for publication in The Review of Financial Studies. The paper was co-…

On Thursday (May 12), the Freeman School's David Lesmond, associate professor of finance, spoke with Garland Robinette, host of WWL-AM's Think Tank, about hedge fund manager salaries. There are 11,000 hedge funds and I would venture to…

If you’ve ever seen the reality show “Shark Tank,” you know the format: Budding entrepreneurs pitch their ideas to a panel of investors with thousands of dollars in funding resting in the balance. Alberta Wright, above, a teacher at…

Robert Hansen’s paper “Can analysts pick stocks for the long-run?” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Financial Economics. The paper, co-authored with Oya Altınkılıç and Liyu Ye, examines stock return drift…

Big data is one of the business world’s biggest buzzwords, offering organizations the promise of revolutionizing the way they generate value for customers and shareholders. Now, a new MBA concentration gives students the skills they…

From BizEd Magazine, May/June 2015: In laying out a framework to help business schools develop innovative programs, author J.D. Schramm highlights the Freeman School’s Burkenroad Reports program. What did the Freeman School have to be…

Two students at the A. B. Freeman School of Business have been named Tulane University’s 2015 Scholar-Athletes of the Year. Brandon Schmidt, left, and Jackie Wegner received Tulane's 2015 Scholar-Athlete of the Year Awards. (Photo…

One of the top priorities identified in the Freeman School’s 2013 strategic plan was the need to investigate the potential revitalization of the school’s dormant PhD programs. This summer, Freeman takes a big step toward realizing that…