Faculty in the News

2023

David Erickson – “Is the IPO Market Back Again Thanks to the ARM and Company? Not So Fast”, Forbes – 09/13/2023
Burcu Esmer – What is APR and How Does it Work?, WalletHub – 08/29/2023
David Erickson – “What’s Wrong with the Private Equity Market – and How to Fix It”, Knowledge@Wharton – 03/13/2023
Marius Guenzel – How Sunk Costs Affect Firms’ Investment Decisions, Knowledge at Wharton – 01/23/2023

2022

David Erickson – “Surviving ‘Tech 2.0 Bubble’: What High Growth Companies Should Do”, Knowledge@Wharton – 05/24/2022
David Erickson – “Robinhood needs new leadership or potential merger”, CNBC – 01/30/2022

2021

Burcu Esmer – Private equity will buy up companies to the tune of $1 trillion this year, Marketplace – 12/17/2021
Sean Myers – How Errors in Reading Fundamentals Drive Stock Price Volatility, Knowledge at Wharton – 11/30/2021
David Wessels – “The Market is on Fire”: What’s behind the flood of DTC IPOs?, Retail Dive – 10/28/2021
David Erickson – “U.S. IPOs Emerge as Unlikely Haven in a Brutal Month for Stocks”, Bloomberg – 10/01/2021
David Erickson – “Robinhood push to democratise finance falters with own shares”, Financial Times – 07/30/2021
David Erickson – “Robinhood starts trading Thursday. Here’s everything you need to know.”, CNBC.com – 07/28/2021
Burcu Esmer – Women in finance – has the pandemic set them back?, Wharton Business Daily – 06/03/2021
David Wessels – Turning investment theory into a successful value-oriented equity strategy, The Business Times – 05/12/2021
Marius Guenzel – Managerial Stress Can Literally Take Years Off Your Life, Forbes – 03/19/2021
Marius Guenzel – Stressed-out CEOs visibly age faster and die earlier, according to a new study, Business Insider – 03/17/2021
Marius Guenzel – Executive stress tests, The New York Times DealBook – 03/17/2021
Marius Guenzel – Being a CEO is a deadly affair, MarketWatch – 03/15/2021
Marius Guenzel – How Biases Influence CEOs Throughout Their Careers, Knowledge@Wharton – 02/23/2021
Marius Guenzel – Interview on Life Cycle of a CEO Career, Wharton on SiriusXM – 02/03/2021
David Erickson – “Will 2020 Be Seen as the Year of the SPAC Bubble”, Knowledge@Wharton – 01/12/2021

2020

David Erickson – “What’s Wrong with the IPO Process and How to Fix It”, Knowledge@Wharton – 12/15/2020
Marius Guenzel – Behavioral Corporate Finance: The Life Cycle of a CEO Career, Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance – 12/04/2020
Marius Guenzel – Stress Marks, Berkeley Haas Magazine – 12/01/2020
Marius Guenzel – Interview on CEO Stress, Aging, and Death, Wharton on SiriusXM – 10/29/2020
Marius Guenzel – Job stress takes a heavy toll on CEO lifespans, Newswise – 10/06/2020
Marius Guenzel – Can the Stress of Being the Boss Make You Age Faster?, Quartz – 09/22/2020
Burcu Esmer – How Firms Use Pre-IPO Confidentiality to Fend Off Lawsuits, Knowledge at Wharton – 08/24/2020
Marius Guenzel – Recessions reduce managers’ life expectancy, FAZ – 08/13/2020
Marius Guenzel – Shareholder activism is basically murder, Bloomberg – 08/03/2020
Marius Guenzel – CEO stress, aging, and death, Marginal Revolution – 08/02/2020
Burcu Esmer – Does Reducing Disclosure Mean Fewer Pre-IPO Lawsuits?, The Blue Sky Blog (Columbia Law School’s Blog on Corporations and the Capital Markets) – 06/12/2020
David Erickson – “How Credit Suisse clients finance Softbank’s Vision Fund, Wall Street Journal – 04/28/2020

2019

David Wessels – Stopping the Red Ink Tops WeWork’s To-Do List, Wall Street Journal – 08/15/2019
Burcu Esmer – Girls Who Invest Scholars From 63 Colleges and Universities Secure Internships at Elite Investment Firms in U.S., Canada, UK, Bloomberg – 08/07/2019
David Erickson – “A Giant Leap for Mankind? Virgin Galactic Revs Up Space Tourism”, Knowledge@Wharton – 07/16/2019
David Erickson – “WeWork: the ‘hypothetical’ company at the heart of the property market”, Financial Times – 07/02/2019
David Erickson – “Uber Makes that it is about the Platform, Not the Losses”, Bloomberg.com – 04/11/2019
David Wessels – Levi CFO Returns to NYSE to Float Another Family-Owned American Icon, Wall Street Journal – 03/21/2019
David Erickson – “Lyft Tumbling Stock is a Worrying Sign for Other Unicorns”, Bloomberg.com – 01/01/2019

2018

David Erickson – “Can Uber Go Public at $120 Billion? Why Not?, The Hill – 10/17/2018
David Wessels – An Inside Look at CalPERS’s New Direct Private Equity Organization, Chief Investment Officer – 08/24/2018
David Erickson – “A Couple Reasons Why Elon Musk Could Actually Pull Off His Wild Plan to Take Tesla Private”, Business Insider – 08/08/2018
David Wessels – Retail Reckoning: How Private Equity Is Boosting Some Brands and Crushing Others, Fortune Magazine – 04/18/2018

2017

David Wessels – Why Those Startup Valuations Might Be Way Off, Wall Street Journal – 10/08/2017
David Wessels – Wal-Mart is buying trendy e-commerce sites. The cool kids are not having it, Los Angeles Times – 08/17/2017
David Erickson – “Investors split on whether Kalanick exit can fix Uber”, Financial Times – 06/21/2017
David Erickson – “What’s the Matter with IPO Market? That is the Wrong Question.”, Knowledge@Wharton – 06/01/2017
David Erickson – “Why Initial Public Offerings Will Rebound in 2017”, Institutional Investor – 02/13/2017
David Erickson – “Will Snap Be the Next Facebook — or Twitter?”, Knowledge@Wharton – 02/09/2017

2016

Susan M Wachter – “World’s Biggest Property Binge is Coming to a City Near You”, Bloomberg TV for the show “What’d You Miss?” – 11/22/2016 Description

Dr. Wachter was interviewed by Bloomberg TV for the show “What’d You Miss?” during which she discussed her article published by Bloomberg News titled “World’s Biggest Property Binge is Coming to a City Near You” on November 22, 2016.
Susan M Wachter – “In shift, Airbnb agrees to San Francisco regs,”, USA Today – 11/14/2016
Susan M Wachter – Trenton Can Use This As A Blueprint For Its Future, NJ.com – 10/31/2016
David Erickson – “San Francisco activist firms turn tables on Wall Street”, San Francisco Chronicle – 09/08/2016
Susan M Wachter – Zombie Properties Returning to Life, Marketplace – 09/08/2016
Susan M Wachter – How to Prevent the Next Housing Crisis, The Fiscal Times – 08/24/2016
Susan M Wachter – Lopsided Housing Rebound Leaves Millions of People Out in the Cold, Wall Street Journal – 08/11/2016
Susan M Wachter – Why We May See a ‘Generation of Permanent Renters’, The Daily Caller – 08/08/2016
David Erickson – “IPO Drought Dries up Tech Cash for Wall Street”, San Francisco Chronicle – 08/05/2016
Susan M Wachter – Super-Fast Mortgage Approval and Zero Down. Say What?, Marketplace – 07/27/2016
Susan M Wachter – A Roaring Trade: Chinese Tiger Mums Start a College-Town Housing Boom, The Economist – 06/18/2016
David Wessels – Vision Quest: Expectations for CFOs to add strategic value have never been higher., CFO Magazine – 06/10/2016
David Wessels – Saudi Aramco IPO: The Biggest Fee Event in Wall Street History, Wall Street Journal – 06/09/2016
Susan M Wachter – Interview on the Global Rental Housing Market, CCTV – 06/09/2016
Susan M Wachter – American Housing Prices Going Big Again, NPR – 06/02/2016
Susan M Wachter – By One Measure, that Million-Dollar Home in San Francisco Isn’t as Expensive as it Seems, Marketplace – 05/30/2016
Susan M Wachter – Homeownership Rates Are Falling, and It’s Not Just a Millennial Problem, Forbes – 05/06/2016
Susan M Wachter – Tiny Is the New Big: The Next Wave of Space-Defying, Affordable Homes, Realtor.com – 04/14/2016
Susan M Wachter – Why Aren’t New Homes Going Up That Millennials Can Afford?, Realtor.com – 04/06/2016
Susan M Wachter – Are Bespoke Tranche Opportunities Dangerous? They Pose A Risk – Just Not Right Away., Bustle – 04/05/2016
David Wessels – The enduring power of the biggest idea in business, The Economist – 04/02/2016
Susan M Wachter – 2016’s Property Taxes By State, WalletHub – 03/09/2016
Susan M Wachter – Which Region Is Poised to See the Most Home Sales?, Realtor.com – 02/29/2016
Susan M Wachter – Budget Stalemate Puts Damper on Developers’ Plans for Philadelphia., Philadelphia Inquirer – 02/24/2016
Susan M Wachter – Is ‘The Big Short’ Right About Bespoke Tranche Opportunities? Experts Weigh in On the Film’s Alarming Ending, Bustle – 02/09/2016
David Erickson – “Why Investors are Excited about SoulCycle”, Inc. – 01/27/2016
David Erickson – “High-tech ‘Unicorns’ may be mauled by bear market”, U.K. Daily Mail – 01/24/2016
David Erickson – “Why unicorns fail: a cautionary talk for average investors”, San Francisco Chronicle – 01/23/2016
David Erickson – “Why We Should Expect Some Thinning of the ‘Unicorn’ Herd”, Knowledge@Wharton – 01/08/2016

2015

Susan M Wachter – Is the Shady Stuff From “The Big Short” Era Still Going On?, Time – 12/24/2015
Susan M Wachter – The Vast Inequality of rental inflation, Marketplace – 11/06/2015
Susan M Wachter – Outlook on the U.S. Housing Market, Bloomberg Television – 10/19/2015
Susan M Wachter – Shopping for a House? Check Out the Garden., Marketplace – 10/15/2015
Robert W. Holthausen – U.S. Businesses Doing More M&A Deals But Making Same Mistakes, Forbes – 10/06/2015
David Erickson – “Square could take hit on IPO with Jack Dorsey leading Twitter”, Reuters.com – 10/01/2015
Susan M Wachter – Renting Vs. Buying, CNBC – 09/22/2015
David Erickson – “Tech Firms Are Notably Scarce in IPO Market”, WSJ.com – 09/10/2015
Susan M Wachter – Is Housing the Engine Driving U.S. Economic Growth?, Bloomberg Television – 08/25/2015
David Wessels – How Foreign Should Investors Get?, Wall Street Journal – 08/10/2015
David Wessels – Chemours launches with questions about its future, Wilmington News Journal – 07/02/2015
Susan M Wachter – How Cities Are Starting to Turn Back Decades of Creeping Urban Blight, The Washington Post – 05/20/2015
Susan M Wachter – Spring Housing Outlook: For Some, a Window of Opportunity, MainStreet.com – 03/23/2015
David Erickson – “Crafting a Questionable Future: Will a Successful IPO Ruin Etsy?”, Knowledge@Wharton – 03/11/2015
Susan M Wachter – The Housing Market is Still Struggling, Marketplace – 02/24/2015
David Erickson – “More Startups Aim to Keep it Private”, Wall Street Journal – 01/01/2015

2014

David Erickson – “Demystify the IPO Process – Questions to ask at the ‘Bakeoff’”, Blog at Bessemer Venture Partners – 12/17/2014
Susan M Wachter – Moonlighting No Help to Americans Seeking to Buy a Home, Bloomberg – 11/25/2014
Susan M Wachter – Why Homeownership Isn’t Catching Up with The Rest of the Economy, NPR – 10/30/2014
David Erickson – “Alibaba Success May be a Mixed Blessing to the Street”, Wall Street Journal – 09/21/2014
David Erickson – “Why the Alibaba IPO Could Help – But Shouldn’t Hurt – the High Growth IPO Market”, Blog at Bessemer Venture Partners – 09/05/2014
Susan M Wachter – More Money Down Adds to U.S. First-Time Buyer Blues, Bloomberg – 08/14/2014
Richard Marston – Investing for a Lifetime, New York Times – 07/13/2014
Nikolai Roussanov – Companies headed by unmarried CEOs grow faster, Quartz – 04/27/2014
Nikolai Roussanov – Do You, CEO, Promise to Take Less Risk as Long as You’re the Boss?, Wall Street Journal – 04/27/2014
Susan M Wachter – Housing’s Bad Month, Via the Letter ‘L’, Marketplace – 04/01/2014
Robert F. Stambaugh – Are Younger Managers Better – Or Younger Strategies?, Morningstar – 03/11/2014
Robert F. Stambaugh – The Argument That Fund Managers Are Improving, Morningstar – 03/07/2014
Robert F. Stambaugh – New Mutual Funds Better Than Older Ones?, CNN Money – 03/02/2014
Robert F. Stambaugh – Has Your Fund Become Too Large, Or Is Industry Size the Problem?, Morningstar – 02/28/2014
Robert F. Stambaugh – Are Young Managers All That?, Morningstar – 02/27/2014
David Wessels – WhatsApp price ups the ante in a big-spending industry, Los Angeles Times – 02/21/2014
Robert F. Stambaugh – Why New Mutual Funds are Better, Wall Street Journal – 02/21/2014 Description
Susan M Wachter – Real-Estate Tech Takes NYC, Wall Street Journal – 01/05/2014

2013

David Wessels – Social media start-ups’ value is enormous — if you trust investors, Los Angeles Times – 11/16/2013
Susan M Wachter – Your Money: Aftermath of a U.S. government default, Philadelphia Inquirer – 10/17/2013
Susan M Wachter – Re/Max Gains After $220 Million IPO Priced Above Target, Bloomberg – 10/02/2013
Susan M Wachter – Why the Commercial Real Estate Crash Never Came, Fortune – 09/23/2013
Susan M Wachter – Housing Boom or Bubble?, CNBC – 09/11/2013
Susan M Wachter – American Realtor’s Worries Amid Home Buying Spree, Xinhua – 08/25/2013
Susan M Wachter – Banks Sue a California City Trying to Take Over Underwater Mortgages, American Public Media’s Marketplace – 08/08/2013
Susan M Wachter – The Real Estate Ripple Effect, BBC News/Online – 07/31/2013
Susan M Wachter – Stable, Affordable Federal Financing for Homes, New York Times – 06/20/2013
Susan M Wachter – Detroit Survival Depends on Speed of Destruction, Bloomberg – 05/30/2013
Susan M Wachter – Wall Street Revives Foreclosed Homes as Rentals, American Public Media’s Marketplace – 05/03/2013
Susan M Wachter – Housing Rebound is Facing Obstacle: Too Few Homes, Associated Press – 05/01/2013
Susan M Wachter – What’s Hot in Housing Trends These Days?, American Public Media’s Marketplace – 04/16/2013
Susan M Wachter – Street Signs: Is Housing Market Back?, CNBC – 02/26/2013
Susan M Wachter – Home Prices Start to Climb Again, American Public Media’s Marketplace – 02/01/2013
Robert P. Inman – Billions in gas drilling royalties transform lives, Associated Press – 01/27/2013
Susan M Wachter – New Mortgage Rules Would Limit Risky Lending, NPR – 01/10/2013
Susan M Wachter – Wachter: Bank Lending Key to Housing Recovery, Fox Business Network – 01/07/2013

2012

Susan M Wachter – Homeownership Sparks Economy in Many Ways, American Public Media’s Marketplace – 12/26/2012
Susan M Wachter – Experts Discuss Health of the Federal Housing Authority, C-Span – 11/30/2012
Susan M Wachter – Shelter Crisis After the Storm, Reuters Television – 11/05/2012
Susan M Wachter – The Housing Disconnect, CNBC – 10/24/2012
David Wessels – Beware, investors: Facebook was just a warning, CNN – 05/24/2012
Luke Taylor – The Facebook IPO: What Went Wrong?, Knowledge @ Wharton – 05/23/2012
Karen K. Lewis – Global Stock Market Linkages Reduce Potential for Diversification, Economic Letter, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas – 02/29/2012 Description

Comovement across international financial markets highlights U.S. equity markets’ exposure to foreign markets

2011

Susan M Wachter – Obama’s Plan To Target Foreclosed Properties Depends On A Broader Recovery, Huffington Post – 09/10/2011
Nikolai Roussanov – Success and the Single Chief Executive, Bloomberg View – 08/17/2011
Susan M Wachter – U.S. Housing Market, Outlook, Bloomberg Television – 08/17/2011
Susan M Wachter – Street Signs, CNBC – 07/26/2011
Susan M Wachter – Street Signs, CNBC – 06/21/2011
Joseph Gyourko – US Job Relocation Activity Picks Up Sharply, The Financial Times – 06/02/2011
Susan M Wachter – Comments on U.S. Housing Prices and Home Ownership Rates., NBC Nightly News – 05/31/2011
Joseph Gyourko – Revisiting the ‘Holy Grail’ of Home Ownership, WHYY.org – 04/18/2011
Joseph Gyourko – A Dream Endangered. (Yeah, So?), National Journal.com – 03/17/2011
Joseph Gyourko – When The Roof Fell In, The Economist – 03/03/2011

2010

Susan M Wachter – Nightly Business Report, PBS – 10/18/2010
Susan M Wachter – Foreclosure Errors May Cloud Ownership of U.S. Homes, BusinessWeek.com – 10/01/2010
Joseph Gyourko – The Housing Bubble Trouble, National University of Singapore’s Institute of Real Estate Studies. The Straits Times – 09/29/2010
Susan M Wachter – How the 30-year mortgage came to be, Marketplace Public Radio – 09/15/2010
Susan M Wachter – Banks’ Plans for Foreclosed Homes Will Drive Market, Wall Street Journal – 09/13/2010
Joseph Gyourko – Can Interest Rates Explain the U.S. Housing Boom and Bust?, VOX-EU with Edward Glaeser, Joshua Gottlieb – 08/28/2010
Joseph Gyourko – Devalued Homes Anchor Prospective Job Seekers, NPR, “Morning Edition” – 08/26/2010
Susan M Wachter – Crisis of Confidence, CNBC, “Street Signs” – 08/25/2010
Susan M Wachter – Dismal Home Sales Report Renews Economic Recovery Concerns, PBS, “News Hour” – 08/24/2010
Susan M Wachter – Saving Fannie & Freddie, CNBC, “Squawk Box” – 08/17/2010
Joseph Gyourko – Did Low Interest Rates Cause the Great Housing Convulsion?, Economix, New York Times – 08/03/2010
Joseph Gyourko – Just How Risky Are China’s Housing Markets?, VOX-EU, with Yongheng Deng, Jing Wu – 07/28/2010
Jeremy Siegel – Head for the Hills? No Way, He Says, New York Times – 07/17/2010
Robert P. Inman – 4 reasons why Texas beats California in a recession, Fortune – 07/13/2010
Robert P. Inman – Unemployment, not budget practices, to blame for state woes, Washington Post – 06/22/2010
Richard Marston – Survey: It’s a Riskier World, CFO.com – 06/07/2010
David Musto – What is naked short selling?, CNNMoney.com – 05/19/2010
Jeremy Siegel – The Future of the Euro, CNBC, “Squawk on the Street” – 05/17/2010
Richard Marston – Greek Tragedy Unfolds, CFO Magazine – 05/07/2010
Jeremy Siegel – Reading Economic Signs Of The ‘Great Recession’, NPR, “Talk of the Nation” – 04/13/2010
Richard Marston – Painful Conversions, CFO Magazine – 04/01/2010
Jeremy Siegel – Siegel Says U.S. Recovery Certain, Euro Region Faces Splinter, Bloomberg.com – 03/10/2010
Robert P. Inman – Public Policy Gains a Foothold at B-School, BusinessWeek.com – 03/01/2010
Jeremy Siegel – How will the arrow point in 10 years?, USA Today – 01/04/2010

2009

Joseph Gyourko – Re-thinking American Dream Of Home Ownership, NPR, “Talk of the Nation” – 12/15/2009
Joseph Gyourko – 5 myths about home sweet homeownership, Washington Post – 11/15/2009
Robert F. Stambaugh – For Older Investors, Old Rules May Not Apply, New York Times – 06/19/2009
Robert F. Stambaugh – Now the Long Run Looks Riskier, Too, New York Times – 03/28/2009
Anthony M Santomero – Citi Picks Four New Directors, Details CEO’s Pay, Wall Street Journal Online – 03/17/2009

2008

Robert F. Stambaugh – Yes, History Has Much to Say About This Market, New York Times – 12/27/2008

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