Business and Finance

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“If I’m Scared, So Are You.” Study Reveals How Fear Impacts Stock Market Decisions

Andrade and Chan Jean Lee, a PhD candidate, both in the Haas Marketing Group, are the co-authors of “Fear, Social Projection, and Financial Decision Making,”…

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$1.6 Billion Cost of Underutilized Federal Facilities

The federal government should embark on a coordinated, funded, and sustained effort to dispose of approximately 45,000 excess and underutilized facilities,…

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KfW Financing Sees Strong Demand in Q3 2023

In the first nine months of 2011, KfW Bankengruppe made commitments totalling EUR 52.9 billion, confirming the long-term trend of high and rising demand for…

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Elderly Small Business Owners Face Retirement Challenges in Sweden

In Sweden, an already critical employment situation is exacerbated by the fact that 25% of managers of small and medium-sized businesses plan to retire in the…

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Immigrants – Sweden’s new poor pensioners

This gloomy future scenario is revealed by a new government inquiry on the pension system carried out by researchers from the School of Business, Economics and…

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Doing Good and Doing Well Are Not Mutually Exclusive

Why is poor decision-making so prevalent in today's society? What role can the business community play in helping people make decisions that are more…

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RUB Researchers Advance Spectral Analysis for Complex Processes

A milestone in the description of complex processes – for example the ups and downs of share prices – has been reached by mathematicians at the…

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Debt-Ceiling Battles Have Little Effect on Financial Market

However, a University of Arkansas finance study suggests that financial markets increasingly regard such controversies as political posturing rather than…

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Chinese Americans Don’t Over Borrow, MU Study Finds

Bad mortgage loans and rampant consumer debt were two of the primary causes for the recent economic recession in the U.S. Despite a national trend of debt…

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Angel Investor Market Stabilizes in First Half of 2011

A total of 26,300 entrepreneurial ventures received angel funding during the first half of 2011, a 4.4 percent increase from the same period in 2010, and the…

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Research Examines the Economic Value of On-Premise Signs

Results of a national survey of more than 160 large and small businesses will be presented Oct. 12 at the University of Cincinnati annual National Signage…

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Consumers Rely on Signage Over Other Ad Media

That’s because University of Cincinnati analysis of a market research survey of more than 100,000 North American households found that shoppers are drawn into…

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Debt Crisis Impact: Insights from Experts on Economic Outlook

This is what experts stated in a survey on the current debt crisis and its possible impact on the economy, which the IVAM Microtechnology Network has conducted…

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Price Too High? Budget Tight? Negotiate for a Better Deal

Unemployment rates remain elevated, and household spending has been increasing at only a modest pace. While this may affect your household budgeting, it could…

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KfW IPEX-Bank Finances A9 Motorway Refurbishment in Thuringia

KfW IPEX-Bank together with Spain's Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) is financing the refurbishment, operation and maintenance of a 46.5 km section of…

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What Investors Have Learned from the Major Earthquake

1. IntroductionThe Great East Japan Earthquake has dramatically altered the way the Japanese economy is seen. For example, the way that housing and real estate…

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