Soft-shelled blue crabs are a delicacy enjoyed by food lovers each spring and early summer when the crustaceans naturally molt their hard outer shell in the…
“Non-Price Determinants of Automotive Demand: Restyling Matters Most,” a study by three economists in the VCU School of Business, analyzed secular market share…
The facility has just opened as the largest tenant in the new Maryland International Incubator, a joint project of the University of Maryland and the state…
Using more than two years of personnel data from a large U.S. retail chain, the study found that when a black manager in a typical store is replaced by a…
Siemens AG is to acquire the solar thermal power company Solel Solar Systems Ltd. To date, the majority stake has been held by Ecofin Ltd., a London-based…
That puts economists in line with the 48 percent of average Americans who picked Wal-Mart as the company that “best symbolizes America today” in a recent poll…
Wellesley College economists Courtney Coile and Phillip Levine have published a new paper, “The Market Crash and Mass Layoffs: How the Current Economic Crisis…
The current recession has focused top information technology executives on cost-cutting, but they are not slashing jobs the way they did in previous economic…
The new study, conducted by Stanford University Associate Professor Eric Bettinger, Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Bridget Terry Long, and…
“Tourism and travel are vitally important sectors in the economy of many U.S. cities and communities,” Bryce Sutton, Ph.D. “Depending upon the severity of the…
During the 1990s financial crisis, Swedish banks were criticised in the media for causing unnecessary corporate bankruptcies through, for example, increased…
“In the coming years, U.S. consumers will save more and spend less,” said Curtin, director of the Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers. “The…
A new study finds that corporations with higher levels of debt tend to have CEOs who also owe more on their own homes.Firms whose CEOs have home mortgages have…
Thanks to the federal program, the average fuel economy of all new vehicles purchased in the United States in July and August improved about 3 percent,…
“Entrepreneurs often come up with ideas that can be protected, and this article lays out the pros and cons of various intellectual-property protections,” says…
Small business owners and employees are among those who stand to benefit the most from provisions in some of the current health reform proposals under…
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