Leading academics, bankers and regulators gathered at the Robert H.

Smith student Philip Peker ’18 writes about the Joseph Wikler Memorial Finance Case Competition on April 22, 2016, at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Experts from the University of Maryland’s Robert H.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — The Treasury Department continues to tighten its rules to prevent corporate "inversions" — the move in which a U.S. company merges with a smaller foreign company, then shifts its official location abroad to avoid the U.S.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- Clinical professor of finance David Kass at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business is a Berkshire Hathaway shareholder and a close follower of Warren Buffett’s investment strategy since 1980.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Central bankers in Japan and the Europe Union are at their wits' end in trying to figure how to generate demand and stave off deflation. Both banks have dropped interest rates into negative territory, encouraging spending by making saving literally costly. Yet the publics of the two economic regions have reacted differently. Each is unhappy for a different reason.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — In a recent ABA Banking Journal piece, professor Clifford Rossi at the University of Maryland's Robert H.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Does the stock market encourage corporate conformity? Yes, according to new research from the Robert H.

SMITH BRAINTRUST — Vexed politicians and Election 2016 voters might scoff.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — The debate over whether Great Britain should exit the E.U. — to "Brexit" or not to "Brexit"? — is rippling outward from Europe into the world's major financial markets. The G20 nations, who met in Shanghai last weekend, warned of a "shock" to the world economy if Britain goes its own way.