The Ripple Effect podcast from Knowledge at Wharton presents a series of episodes featuring Wharton faculty, offering their expert insight on financial literacy. Browse the episodes below: How Financial Literacy Helps Underserved Students Professor David Musto Wharton’s David Musto talks about Penn’s financial literacy course, which is being taught to...Read More

Zachary Long, a Jacobs Scholar for the 2023-2024 school year and graduating MBA at Wharton Dr. Bruce I. Jacobs, G’79, GRW’86, co-founder of Jacobs Levy Equity Management The Dr. Bruce I. Jacobs Scholars in Quantitative Finance is an academic award dedicated to exceptional students entering their second year of the...Read More

There is a belief among policymakers that a lower foreign tax burden of domestic multinational firms will result in more jobs and increased wages at home. Daniel Garrett, assistant professor of finance at Wharton, challenges this belief in his 2024 paper, "Effects of International Tax Provisions on Domestic Labor Markets,"...Read More

Over the past two decades, foreign investors have increased their holdings of USD securities – but by how much? Amy Wang Huber, assistant professor of finance at Wharton, gets to the bottom of dollar asset holding and hedging around the globe in her 2023 paper, co-authored with Wenxin Du. In...Read More

This fall has been productive for Sean Myers, an assistant professor of finance at Wharton. His 2022 paper, The Return of Return Dominance: Decomposing the Cross-section of Prices co-authored with Ricardo De la O and Xiao Han has recently won the Rodney L. White Center’s 2022 Marshall Blume First Prize in...Read More