The news of Osama bin Laden's death resulted in a boost for the financial markets. Andrew Lo offered one way to interpret this boost, and cautioned that "Financial markets will likely react positively to this news in the short run, but the repercussions may be more complex over time as we learn how bin Laden's death affects his organization and, consequently, the political economy of the Middle East."

Andrew Lo spoke to financiers in April and explained why everyone, including John Paulson, is having so much trouble making money right now: "Alpha is becoming beta," he says.

...more than the last financial crisis. "The impact of the next crisis will be greater because the economy is in a much more fragile state," said Andrew Lo, professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management. "My worry about the next financial crisis is it will come from some corner..."

...years, calling for additional cuts across the board. "If they make serious cuts over time, that's actually going to be quite good for the economy," said Andrew Lo, professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management. "It's bitter medicine, but we've got to take it."

...since Dodd-Frank was enacted, the Obama administration has failed to nominate a director. It's reportedly considering accomplished academics—Andrew Lo at MIT and Bob Shiller at Yale are two under consideration—but for now the research office is being run by the Treasury Department's Office of...

...observers disagree. "When the straw that breaks the camel's back lands on the pile, I guess you could argue that none of the other straws were at fault," says Andrew Lo, Director of MIT's Laboratory for Financial Engineering and FSOC proponent, in response to AIMA contentions on hedge funds and the financial...

So-called black swan events aren't as rare as the label implies and present opportunities to investors when markets overreact to them, according to Andrew Lo of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Rare events happen a lot more frequently than you might think," said Lo, director of MIT's Laboratory for Financial Engineering..."

...like such a big deal, it could trigger a mass panic or sell-off, or other types of market dynamics that could be really hard to predict or control," said Andrew Lo, professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He added that Americans might "start wondering whether or not government..."

...the same trading strategies led to terrible losses, as the firms all tried to sell the same stocks at the same time. As Andrew Lo, a professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management, observed in a September 2007 paper on the event, an "apparent demand for liquidity" that week "caused a fire sale liquidation."...

It was announced that MIT Professor Andrew Lo was selected to serve on The Clearing House's Academic Advisory Council (AAC), which pairs distinguished scholars from the nation's top academic institutions with leaders from the financial industry to analyze key issues facing the global financial system.

Clever schemes to make bankers earn their bonuses look good on paper, but economics proves they won't work. Finance theorist Andrew Lo is mentioned as having first said 10 years ago that there's a fundamental problem with finance.

...It's not an unreasonable comparison to make, between the credit crisis of the last decade and the muni market Citi envisions busting out next year, says Andrew Lo, a professor of finance at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School. "People are mostly focused on the muni market and...

...himself out, according to people familiar with the search. Mr. Shiller declined to comment. Other academics with an interest in the field, including Andrew Lo of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have taken themselves out of the running. The administration has also spoken to John Geanakoplos...

Liquidity and a Premium? This is a brief review of a surprising result from a working paper by Andrew Lo and Amir Khandani.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology finance professor Andrew W. Lo and Mark T. Mueller, a senior lecturer at MIT's Sloan School of Management, are the first winners of the Harry M. Markowitz Award for their 2010 paper exploring the limitations of quantitative models in predicting market outcomes.