Oil-rich countries with unstable and undemocratic governments often suffer from the 'resource curse', with huge increase in state income leading to negative…
That's because while a bad merger can decrease the value of a company's stock and options, CEOs typically acquire new stock options once the deal goes through,…
Construction of the American highway system in the late 20th century played a key role in causing population declines in central cities, according to new…
The report, by researchers at Sheffield Hallam University, finds that since 1997 real levels of unemployment have dropped by only 600,000, compared to a fall…
The new research, published in the July issue of the Southern Economic Journal, is the first to analyse how economic freedom affects unemployment.Based on data…
It’s Monday morning, and the long list of emails winds down the screen, offering no comfort at all. You know that you have to fill in your list of tasks for…
For the most innovative companies this may means that analysts do not have enough information to work out their true market value.Reforming this area should be…
This new instrument will help to make more financing available for promoters of research & innovation projects, which often face more difficulties than…
Findings from the study, the first to suggest that people will pay a premium to protect their privacy when shopping online, will be presented Friday, June 8,…
Norway exports seafood to around 155 different countries throughout the world, and the seafood industry is one of our most important export trades.Norwegian…
The search is on for ‘would be’ entrepreneurs who want to turn their research ideas into a successful business. The third RCUK Business Plan Competition is…
Gun Johansson, a postgraduate at Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet, presents in her thesis the illness flexibility model in order to elucidate…
Professor Andrew Oswald from the University of Warwick said: “Many of the valuable things in life — love, friendship, health — come without price-tags…
The report, “Skills At Work, 1986 to 2006”, written by Professor Alan Felstead (Cardiff University), Professor Duncan Gallie and Dr. Ying Zhou (Oxford…
The report, produced by academics at the University of Liverpool, shows the city is attracting a high percentage of new visitors – 41% of tourists have never…
An example is satellite based services being one of the most promising sectors of future business profit, guaranteed by the introduction of the next generation…