Timothy Loughran
Finance
C. R. Smith Professor of Finance
- Behavioral finance
- Market microstructure
- Equity investing
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Reuters
When IPOs go wrong: SpaceX, AI firms face a delicate process
June 04, 2026
For SpaceX, the uninhibited nature of CEO Elon Musk, especially in his posts on X, presents risks amid the formality of the IPO process, said University of Notre Dame finance professor Timothy Loughran. “He’s well-known for expressing himself on his social media site and he’ll have to be very careful,” he said. “It’s an open question whether he can restrain himself.”
Bloomberg
Say No to YES
June 30, 2022
A reader pointed me to this paper, by Margaret Forster, Tim Loughran and Bill McDonald at Notre Dame, about “Commonality in Codes of Ethics.”
Quartz
A 2011 dictionary is reshaping the language of corporate reporting
January 24, 2021
Not all of these downloaders wanted to wring trading intelligence out of these texts, said Tim Loughran, a professor of finance at the University of Notre Dame; many are programmers searching for meaty data sets and documents on which they can train their algorithms.
Financial Times
Robo-surveillance shifts tone of CEO earnings calls
December 05, 2020
Not coincidentally, 2011 was when Tim Loughran and Bill McDonald, two finance professors at the University of Notre Dame, first published a more detailed, finance-specific dictionary that has become popular as a training tool for NLP algorithms.