Business and Finance

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Small Businesses Turn to Personal Assets for Financing

Small businesses are seen as an important part of the American economy. These businesses often rely heavily on loans to stay afloat. The recent economic…

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Effects of Winter Storms Will Take Time to Work Through Cattle Markets

“Significant snowfall and record low temperatures, especially with the wind chills, have disrupted markets and pushed both cattle and cattle managers well out…

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Consumer Credit Increase a Good Sign, but the Economic Road Ahead Still Littered with Potholes

“On the positive side, household debt service obligations as a ratio to disposable income are in the 12 percent range, which is comparable to what we saw in…

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Releasing Bad Earnings News Earlier Means Fewer Lawsuits

“If a child does something wrong and tells his mother about it, he'll probably be in less trouble than if mom finds out about it on her own,” said Richard…

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Social Media Boost Return on Super Bowl Ad Dollars

Marketing expert Scott Hamula says those sponsors are also finding more ways than ever to expand that audience through the use of social media.“It’s likely…

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Research Recommends New Regulatory Structure to Mitigate Financial Risk in China

The new research by Honggeng Zhou, associate professor of decision sciences, and Wenjuan Xie, assistant professor of finance, both at UNH, is presented in the…

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ESMT Report: Pros and Cons of Net Neutrality Regulation

The growing demand for bandwidth for data-intense applications, such as online videos and cloud gaming, and the increasing commercial relevance of the Internet…

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UNH Research Proposes Regulatory Changes to Curb Financial Risk

The new research by Honggeng Zhou, associate professor of decision sciences, and Wenjuan Xie, assistant professor of finance, both at UNH, is presented in the…

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New Mortgage Design Aims to Reduce Home Foreclosures

Brent Ambrose, Smeal Professor of Real Estate and director of the Institute for Real Estate Studies at the Penn State Smeal College of Business, and Richard…

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Some Banks Help Keep Mortgage Holders Out of Default

Researchers found that low-income homeowners who received a mortgage from a local lender were less likely to default on their loans than are those who borrowed…

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KfW: Ensuring Stability Amid Volatile Capital Markets

“This year it was the European sovereign debt crisis in particular that shaped the mood of the international capital markets for long stretches. The markets…

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Smartphone Litigation Surge: Strategy and Court Specialization

Business professor Deepak Somaya says that this current wave of patent litigation is a “clash driven by company strategies.””Smart phones combine lots of…

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The Seven Deadly Sins of Business: Researchers Document Effects of Supervisors' Misdeeds on Employee Health and Productivit

To better understand this deteriorating relationship, Wayne Hochwarter, the Jim Moran Professor of Business Administration in Florida State’s College of…

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Employer Health Insurance Premiums Soar 41% from 2003-2009

Premiums for employer-sponsored family health insurance increased an average of 41 percent across states from 2003 to 2009, more than three times faster than…

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Stock Market ‘Flash’ Crashes Now Can be Predicted, Thanks to Cornell Metric

The new “Volume-synchronized Probability of INformed trading” – or VPIN – metric looks at the imbalance of trade relative to the total volume of the market. The developers: David Easley, Cornell professor of social sciences and chair of the Department of Economics, and Maureen O’Hara, professor of finance at Cornell’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, in collaboration with Marcos Lopes de Prado of Tudor Investments….

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Siemens increases patents granted to nearly 58,000

All in all, it’s another demonstration of the innovative power of the more than 30,000 R&D employees who work at Siemens. The total number of patents granted…

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