Business and Finance

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Enhancing Business Research: ESRC’s Capacity Building Initiative

The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is building upon its commitment to support research and training essential to the international competitiveness…

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How Pricing Experts Shape Business Strategies Effectively

Business analyst Niklas Hallberg of Lund University in Sweden shows that individual associates, price experts, are a strong factor for accurate pricing. If…

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Discovering Premium Customers: The Shift to Online Shopping

The days when we had to go to a physical store to buy whatever goods and services we needed are over. Within a number of business sectors it has become…

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Research finds customers’ fixation on minimum payments drives up credit card bills

The research, by University of Warwick Psychology researcher Dr Neil Stewart, is to be published in Psychological Science, in a paper entitled “The Cost of…

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Boost Ergonomic Efficiency: Insights from Turkish Air Force Experts

Oguzhan Erdinc of the Department of Industrial Engineering at the Turkish Air Force Academy and Ozalp Vayvay of the Department of Industrial Engineering, at…

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Transforming Urban Communities: Solutions to Poverty Challenges

Millions of people around the world live in informal urban communities where a lack of resources leads to degradation of the environment. Deteriorating…

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Market Visiting Rights for Antarctica: Insights from Research

Tourism in Antarctica has grown dramatically. In 1985, just a few thousand people visited the area but in the season 2007/2008 more than 40,000 did the same. A…

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Network Approach May Be the Answer to Understanding Financial ‘Contagion’

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers: As the major dominoes of the financial sector continue to fall at an alarming rate and the Federal…

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Harnessing Innovation: Strategies for Corporate Success

Innovation offers many opportunities for corporations. The question merely is how to make best use of them. In his inaugural address, Van den Ende shows what…

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Exploring Innovation Beyond Stock Exchanges: Insights from BI Experts

Listed companies are only the tip of the iceberg, states Associate Professor Janis Berzins and Professor Øyvind Bøhren at BI Norwegian School of Management.If…

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Auto After Market Sales Continue to Thrive Despite Detroit’s Big Losses

Last week, General Motors reported a stunning second-quarter loss of $15.5 billion while Ford reported a loss of $8.7 billion. These losses have resulted in…

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Housing Market Shift: New Lead Generation Techniques Needed

In his article, “Lead Generation: What Really Works?,” published in the Keller Center Research Report this month, Pullig reported that strength of market and…

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UK Researchers Warn: Four Worlds Challenge 21st Century Law

Writing in the inaugural issue of the International Journal of Private Law, UK researchers suggest that the twenty-first century may be scarred by the…

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KfW’s Resilient Funding Strategy in Volatile Markets

In the first half of 2008 KfW successfully defied the very volatile international capital markets with its funding strategy. This was stated by Dr. Frank…

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Langoustine Labels: 24% Misidentified Species Revealed

The results show that 24.4% of the labels display the wrong species name, and that information is incomplete in 39% of cases. The researchers have patented a…

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Investing Insights: Mexican Peso vs. Turkish Lira Analysis

De Zwart conducted five different empirical studies into financial markets. In one of the studies, he investigated the best position for an investor to take…

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