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Quality Management: Boosting Employee Health and Wellbeing

“The commitment of the management is the most important value when it comes to achieving sustainable health among employees,” says Ingela Bäckström. “The…

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Unlocking Insights: The Birth of a Company Through Diaries

With the help of unique electronic diaries, business studies researcher Jaqueline Bergendahl, Lund University in Sweden, has gleaned new knowledge of how the…

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Investors scramble for KfW's new three-year bond

The new Euro Benchmark III/2009 matures on 21 May 2012 and pays a coupon of 2.25% p.a. The re-offer price was set at 99.991%, yielding 2.253% and equating to a…

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Grain Prices Bounce Back After Flu-Linked Drop

Darrel Good says corn, soybean and wheat prices dropped sharply this week in the first trading session after reports of a virus in Mexico that was spreading…

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KfW IPEX-Bank finances world's second largest photovoltaic power plant in Brandenburg

In the former military training area of Lieberose north of Cottbus, the project developer juwi from Rheinland Palatinate and the solar module manufacturer…

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Greener Industries: A Path to Economic Recovery and Sustainability

Is the recession an opportunity to move away from some traditional, and environmentally unfriendly, industries to cleaner, greener industries to create new and…

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'Unfunded Liabilities' a Financial Myth

Law professor Richard L. Kaplan contends the notion of “unfunded liabilities” is merely an ominous new catchphrase coined during debates over massive spending…

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KfW Boosts 10-Year Benchmark Bond to Record Volume

The top-up involves a yield pick-up of 99.3 basis points over the Bund maturing in January 2019. The bond, which pays a coupon of 3.875%, has a re-offer price…

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Wishful Betting: How It Affects Financial Markets, Study Reveals

In the paper, “Contagion of Wishful Thinking in Markets,” researchers from The University of Texas at Austin and Cornell University demonstrate how wishful…

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Markets Drive Intellectual Discovery Over Patents

When it comes to intellectual curiosity and creativity, a market economy in which inventors can buy and sell shares of the key components of their discoveries…

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Regulation Changes in Financial Sector: Insights from UNH Expert

A professor at UNH’s Whittemore School of Business and Economics, Goldberg presented his analysis and recommendations at the “Emerging from the Financial…

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Why Stock Market Trends Reflect Economic Health

While day-to-day ups and downs can be misleading, finance professor David Ikenberry says broader stock market trends are a good indicator of how the economy is…

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Diverse skills, personalities aid top management teams — up to a point

Organizations that diversify the skill levels of their top leadership benefit more than those that try too hard for similar diversity in personality, according…

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Strong Demand for 5-Year KfW Benchmark Bond Explained

The Euro Benchmark II/2009 matures on 25 February 2014 and pays a coupon of 3.125% p.a. Its reoffer price is 99.754 (yield 3.179%), corresponding to a yield…

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Microfinance Innovation: Key Success Paths Uncovered

“Microfinance Meets the Market,” just published in the Journal of Economic Perspectives, advances the debate, presenting new research from Jonathan Morduch of…

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Georgia Tech Report: Capital Spending Cuts Impact Tax Payments

According to the report, firms that reduce their capital spending could see increased tax payments. Mulford says the situation is part of the consequences of…

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