Business and Finance

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Stock Options Improve Executive Performance but Have Minimal Effect on Rank-and-File Workers

It’s become an article of faith in Silicon Valley that those rewards create incentives for employees to work harder and smarter, in turn rewarding the…

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It’s a Double-Witching Hour for Homebuyers

If you missed the deadline, don’t panic – relief is on the way, according to Richard Marmon, an associate professor of accounting in the Rohrer College of…

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German Micro- and Nanotech Firms Report Positive Trends

More than half of the companies say that business in the first half of 2010 fared better than expected. The companies are positive about the second half of the…

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KfW Entwicklungsbank Fuels SME Innovation in Russia

At today's German-Russian government consultations in Ekaterinburg, KfW Entwicklungsbank signed in the presence of Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel and…

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'Econophysics' points way to fair salaries in free market

The research presents a new perspective on 18th century economist Adam Smith's concept that an “invisible hand” drives a free market economy to a collective…

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European Pension Funds’ Asset and Liability Management Survey

This survey has been taken as part of the second year of the AXA Investment Managers “Regulation and Institutional Investment” research chair at EDHEC-Risk…

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KfW Confirms €75B Funding for German Securitizations

Promotional bank committed to securitisations “Made in Germany”At its semi-annual Capital Markets Press Briefing in London, KfW today confirmed its anticipated…

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Capital Rising — How Capital Flows Are Changing Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

Cohan and Rangan extract best practices that will allow businesses to understand not only the impact of the global economy, but also give them the ability to…

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Sandia National Laboratories’ Big Impact on Small Business and New Mexico’s Economy

Sandia’s Small Business Utilization Department has produced a brochure, “Sandia National Laboratories Economic Impact on the State of New Mexico,”outlining the…

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Mid-America Business Conditions Index Highest Level in Four Years

The index expanded to 64.2 from April’s very healthy 61.7. An index of 50.0 is considered growth neutral for the leading economic indicator. This was the sixth…

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Ernst & Young: Germany Ranked a Top Global Investment Location

This year's Ernst & Young study surveyed 814 international decision-makers on the attractiveness of the European economic area. An additional 205 foreign…

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KfW IPEX-Bank Finances New Ferries for Scandlines

The newbuildings are not only very important for the utilisation of the Volkswerft Stralsund shipyard's capacities. The shipyard group also regards this order…

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Employees More Likely to Cheat with Bonus Incentive Programs

“The dark side of behaviour can be affected by pay-for-performance schemes,” said Fei Song, co-author of the study and a business professor at Ryerson’s Ted…

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Brand attitudes: How companies can avoid the 'Tiger Woods' effect

“A widely applied method for improving how people feel about a brand is to pair the brand with positive stimuli,” write authors Steven Sweldens (INSEAD), Stijn…

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Investors: Target Leadership, Not Corporations in Lawsuits

Class-action lawsuits against financial companies would often be better aligned with the financial interests of the wronged investor if they were directed at…

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Unlocking Benefits: Why Banks Prefer Internet Banking

From a bank's perspective there are many advantages to persuading their customers to adopt internet banking – clicks, as opposed to bricks, and mortar banking,…

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