The Internet has evolved from static web pages to e-commerce — and now to identity play — according to Professor Ulrike Schultze of SMU Cox. Through researching how people use their avatars and operate in Second Life, "one of the richest social media environments," Schultze finds new insights into how our on- and off-line identities are increasingly entangled—and how social media is evolving.

According to evidence from new research by Finance Professors Swaminathan Kalpathy and Amar Gande, U.S. Federal Reserve emergency financial assistance ("bailouts") is higher among firms whose CEOs have stronger risk-taking incentives. In “CEO Compensation at Financial Firms,” the authors disentangle whether the incentives inherent in CEO compensation contributed to the financial crisis.