The University of Kentucky's Gatton College of Business and Economics will host Wall Street Prep's M&A and LBO Modeling Virtual Boot Camp on April 10-11, 2021. The virtual seminar will be of particular interest to students pursuing careers in investment banking, private equity, portfolio management, business and corporate development, capital markets, equity and credit research, and industry corporate finance.
“The Price Impact of Share Repurchases: Evidence from Dual Class Shares," a paper by PNC Associate Professor of Finance Leonce Bargeron will be published in Management Science.
According to finance adjunct professor Quint Tatro, the semiconductor shortage is rooted in the unusually large demand last year for new personal computers, Smart TVs, laptops, consumer electronics and computer games (all of which need chips) from millions of customers stuck at home during the pandemic.
Tatro spoke to Forbes about how investors can benefit from this worldwide shortage.
Currency trader and finance lecturer Peter Trager told the Courier-Journal that the GameStop surge was "not surprising because of the 'new guard' of technologically savvy millennial investors and the speed at which information travels." Observing how the GameStop stock traded Thursday — its close was down roughly 44 percent compared with Wednesday's — Trager said he thinks the stock is starting to "run out of steam," particularly as more short sellers are squeezed out.
On Jan. 28, David Sovich discussed his paper, "State Minimum Wages, Employment, and Wage Spillovers: Evidence From Administrative Payroll Data" on Cavuto: Coast to Coast on Fox Business. The paper is joint work with Radha Gopalan and Bart Hamilton (Washington University), and Ankit Kalda (Indiana University).
LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — One day after buy orders were halted, trading of GameStop Corp. (GME) resumed on Jan. 29, and it was just as volatile as ever, with swings of roughly two hundred points in both directions between the opening and closing bells. The stock price went from a 52-week low of $2.80 per share back in April to a high of $438.00 achieved during trading earlier this week. So how did this happen, virtually overnight?
The University of Kentucky’s Gatton College of Business and Economics will offer the Pelissier Scholarship for the fifth consecutive year. Applications are open to all undergraduate students of all majors currently enrolled at the University of Kentucky with expected graduation dates between December 2022 and May 2023. The deadline is February 19, 2021.
Research by David Sovich, "Home Equity and Labor Income: The Role of Constrained Mobility" was published in Oxford Academic Review of Financial Studies.
A paper by Will Gerken and Marc Painter '19 entitled, "The Value of Differing Points of View: Evidence from Financial Analysts' Geographic Diversity" was presented at the NBER Conference on Big Data and Securities Markets.
On October 29, twenty four University of Kentucky Wall Street Scholars and Pelissier Scholars met with Nate Morris, founder, chairman and CEO of Rubicon, a software company focused on cloud-based, sustainable waste and recycling services.
