National Bureau of Economic Research

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  The Dow and 7 Days of Disaster

  By Mike Patton  |  July 18, 2012

  Disasters affect financial markets from Pearl Harbor to Fukushima, but what role does human behavior play in market successes and failures?

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  Top 15 Best Paying College Degrees

  By Dan Berman, AdvisorOne  |  May 29, 2012

  With the rise in college tuition showing no sign of slowing down, a new, wide-ranging paper offers a tool for grads, or those choosing a degree, to figure out what their degrees might be worth.

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  Dr. Kent Smetters: The 2012 IA 25 Extended Profile

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  May 25, 2012

  A good argument could be made for excluding Wharton professor Kent Smetters from the IA 25.

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  BlackRock, Harvard: Retirees Don’t Know What They Want, but It Might Be Annuities

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  May 3, 2012

  “You don’t get a radically different answer when you change the wording of a question about whether you want chocolate or vanilla ice cream, but with annuities you do,” says Harvard professor David Laibson.

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  Mohamed El-Erian: The 2012 IA 25 Extended Profile

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  May 1, 2012

  Within the first minute of meeting Mohamed El-Erian, you understand why his company, PIMCO, and the man, is so successful.

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  The 2012 IA 25

  By Editorial Staff  |  April 24, 2012

  Some people ride a wave and some people, like the honorees of the 10th annual IA 25, create a wave.

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  Most Advisors Caught Failing Clients in Research ‘Sting’

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  April 2, 2012

  Results of findings by National Bureau of Economic Research, which had undercover actors portraying clients, showed Boston-area advisors putting their own interests first.

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  Financial Literacy Low Among Vulnerable Populations: NBER

  By Danielle Andrus, AdvisorOne  |  February 15, 2012

  While the last few decades have made new products more accessible to “small investors,” this puts undue pressure on investors who are “financially unsophisticated” and may have difficulty understand complex products, according to a working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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  Recession Imminent?

  By Mike Patton  |  October 1, 2011

  The U.S. economy is a highly-complex, multifaceted mechanism.

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  Finding Value in a Loser’s Game

  By Bob Seawright, Madison Avenue Securities  |  September 30, 2011

  As John Kenneth Galbraith famously pointed out, we have two classes of forecasters: those who don’t know and those who don’t know they don’t know.