Capitalist utopias and financial futures of the US oil and gas industry

Dr High examines the relationship between private equity investment and the projects envisaged by oil industry entrepreneurs.

Drawing on long-term fieldwork involving almost a decade of interviews and observations, Dr Mette High, Director of the University of St Andrews’ Centre for Energy Ethics, UK, investigates what happens when oil industry entrepreneurs with utopic projects and private equity firms looking to invest come together. In this study centring on Weld County, Colorado – with more than 22,000 active […]

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Stock market valuation: Don’t hate the player, hate the game!

Dr Shushu Liao examines how the overvaluation of a corporate company impacts the market.

There is great importance in understanding how the overvaluation of a corporate company impacts the market. Shushu Liao of Kühne Logistics University in Germany and her co-author Marco Errico have shown that if investors were to have access to equal and accurate financial information for their investments, overvaluation wouldn’t be at the mercy of corporate managers. Consequently, overvalued financial reports […]

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