{"id":46911,"date":"2026-06-12T10:43:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T14:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/business\/?p=46911"},"modified":"2026-06-12T10:50:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T14:50:53","slug":"research-uses-machine-learning-models-and-textual-analysis-to-explore-investor-influence-and-firm-decision-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/business\/research-uses-machine-learning-models-and-textual-analysis-to-explore-investor-influence-and-firm-decision-making\/","title":{"rendered":"Research uses machine learning models and textual analysis to explore investor influence and firm decision-making."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Maniraj Muthyala<\/strong> is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in Finance, specializing in corporate governance and shareholder activism. His research uses machine learning models and textual analysis to explore investor influence and firm decision-making. He is proficient in Python, Stata, and SQL for empirical research.<br>His work has been honored with the Dean\u2019s Excellence Award for Outstanding Research (Spring 2024). He has teaching experience in FIN 220: Introduction to Financial Management and BAI 111: Introduction to Business Analytics &amp; Applications, emphasizing financial principles and data-driven decision-making.<br>Beyond research, he is interested in institutional investors, board dynamics, and the regulatory impacts on corporate policies.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maniraj Muthyala is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in Finance, specializing in corporate governance and shareholder activism. His research uses machine learning models and textual analysis to explore investor influence and firm decision-making. He is proficient in Python, Stata, and SQL for empirical research.His work has been honored with the Dean\u2019s Excellence Award for Outstanding Research [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1562,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46911"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46922,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46911\/revisions\/46922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}