Business and Finance

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Understanding Financial Bubbles: Insights From New Research

A joint study by academics in Switzerland, Germany and at Boston University sheds new light on the formation of financial bubbles and crashes. Wild…

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Does This Steak Go with My Shoes? Consumer Demand for Convenience Reshaping Grocery Retail Sector

Growing consumer demand for convenience is the driving force behind changes to the grocery retailing sector over the past decade, according to a new report by…

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Corporate Tax Holiday: Will It Boost the Economy?

Dhammika Dharmapala, a professor of law at Illinois, says that while the idea of a tax holiday has found favor among some politicians and presidential hopefuls…

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Credit Overusers Hold Unrealistic Product Beliefs, Study Finds

A University of Missouri researcher says people who overuse credit have very different beliefs about products than people who spend within their means….

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Survey Commends 12 Cities for Online Financials

The survey identified Chicago as one of the 12 cities offering timely, complete and accurate online financial information used by municipal bond investors,…

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New Solutions for Resource Allocation Challenges Unveiled

However, a new doctoral thesis from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, shows that there may be alternative solutions to the allocation problem.Economic…

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Twitter Analysis Boosts Stock Predictions and Insights

The share price of a stock reflects investor and analyst opinions about its prospects and indicates whether positive or negative developments are on the…

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Navigating Corruption: How Some Companies Thrive

Indeed, companies with an advantage in operating in corrupt countries are likely to be pre-disposed to protecting that advantage. Attempts to eliminate…

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New Model Reveals Insights Into Foreign Exchange Market

Physicist Guannan Zhao, Ph.D. student at the University of Miami, and his collaborators have developed a mathematical model to describe the timing of price…

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Asia-Pacific Economic Group Highlights Standards Education Necessity

Meanwhile, those already involved in standardization, particularly in the engineering and technology sectors, and increasingly those with policy, legal, and…

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Trade-Off Budgeting is a Good Money-Saving Technique

Deena Katz, associate professor of personal financial planning, has a philosophy she calls trade-off budgeting. Trade-off budgeting is meant to encourage…

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Suppliers’ Dilemma: Top-down Versus Bottom-up; New Study Examines the Value of Point-of-Sale Data in Forecasting

A new study by a University of Arkansas logistics researcher confirms that relying on retail point-of-sale data can increase the accuracy of predictions and…

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Gas Prices Rise: Impact on Grocery Retailers Revealed

A University of Alberta researcher says grocery retailers need to take heed that a jump at the pumps will be a blow to their bottom line. Alberta School of…

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EU Tariffs Hinder Global Trade Opportunities for Consumers

Increased imports often mean cheaper products for EU consumers and greater opportunities for producers in other countries to export their products, but also…

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Underemployment: Rising Trend Ignored Amid Recession Talks

While unemployment has been a frequent topic of discussion during the recession, underemployment and its effects have not, even though the number of…

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Open University MBA: Boost Job Skills and Salary Prospects

However, in the first place, for most students the salary increase is not the most essential aspect. They want to increase their knowledge for global…

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