Finance Paper Summary

General Instructions:

Academic papers chosen must be either published in an academic journal or posted and distributed on SSRN.

All academic papers used in an assignment must be cited.

No academic paper may be used for more than one assignment, i.e. different academic papers must be used for each assignment/activity.

Academic papers should be chosen based on your research area of interest and come from a diverse set of journal outlets. Moreover, for each paper chosen a pdf copy of the article needs to be saved within your research materials for use later in the program.

If Generative AI is used, both the source (BARD, ChatGPT) and the prompt (the set of commands fed to the source) must be cited.

Assignment/Activity #1

You are asked to choose an article published in one of the finance journals listed below and not one that is required reading for the course. The topic of your article can be on any area of finance; however, as always, your choice should be guided primarily by your

interest and curiosity.

Requirements:

Written report not longer than 3 pages, excluding appendices.

Report must contain/address:

o Author(s), Year, Title, Journal, Pages, citation

o What are the research questions being asked?

o Why are these research questions important?

o What analysis do the author(s) conduct to address their research question?

o What are the main findings of the analysis?

o What are the financial and economic implications of the results?

o What did you personally learn from this review of academic financial research?

Finance Journals:

Journal of Finance Review of Finance

Review of Financial Studies Journal of Financial Markets

Journal of Financial Economics Journal of Financial Intermediation

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis

Note: Please use a recent academic journal that publidhed not more than Seven years or 2019 or upwards.