Businesses typically rely on banks and financial markets for financing, but credit provided by suppliers also can play an important role, especially in manufacturing. Yet why firms lend and borrow extensively from each other is still an open question. In a paper in the Journal of the Journal of Financial Economics, financial researchers examined trade credit from a new angle.
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Cancelling MyPillow: How a product can spark an identity crisis
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Washington: Mike Lindell, chief executive of MyPillow, is making life uncomfortable for some of his customers by continuing to promote the false claim that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump. Calls for boycotts have flooded social media sites, several major retailers have dropped his products (sparking counterprotests), Parkland school shooting survivor David Hogg has expressed interest in starting a rival company, and some consumers have thrown their pillows in the bin.
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Research shows investors take stock of Super Bowl advertisers
Not all of the 100 million U.S. viewers who tune in Sunday to the 55th Super Bowl will focus solely on the game. Some will watch for the commercials, a Super Bowl of their own in creativity, celebrity cameos and expense.
Super Bowl commercials command more than $5 million for just 30 seconds of airtime, and their benefit to advertisers has been analyzed with the thoroughness of Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady assessing an opponent’s secondary.
But Ioannis Branikas, an assistant professor of finance in the University of Oregon’s Lundquist College of Business, and Gabriel Buchbinder, a former UO postdoctoral fellow now with the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, have broken new ground. They examined a group of commercial watchers sure to excite companies advertising during the big game: investors.