Business and Finance

Business and Finance

Contrary to popular belief, investment banks do add value to M&As, new study shows

However, despite certain biases, investment banks do add value to mergers and acquisitions and, in fact, produce important information for the M&A advisory…

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Large Differences in Outcomes of Attempts to Eliminate Double Taxation

The study sheds light on the vastly different results that the established methods to eliminate double taxation may yield in certain situations: that a…

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Consumer Access to Car Loans Rises After Repo Law Changes

The study from the Consortium on Financial Systems and Poverty examines car loans from one of Brazil’s leading banks before and after a 2004 law that enabled…

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U-M Study: One in Five U.S. Families Struggle with Debt

According to a new University of Michigan report (PDF), about one out of every five U.S. households owe more on credit cards, medical bills, student loans and…

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Retail Traders’ Insights: New Research from Columbia Finance

A forthcoming paper in the Journal of Finance by Professor Paul Tetlock, Roger F. Murray Associate Professor of Finance at Columbia Business School, and Eric…

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Study Advocates 35-Hour Workweek for Swedish Parents

One way to handle the stress is to take advantage of the right for Swedish parents to work half time, according to a new doctoral thesis from the University of…

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Gain Insight: STN’s Comprehensive Chinese Patent Data

With China having grown into one of the world’s major patenting countries, it becomes extremely important for all companies involved in R&D to keep an eye on…

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Predicting Financial Markets with Twitter Data Insights

A University of California, Riverside professor and several other researchers have developed a model that uses data from Twitter to help predict the traded…

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Route of Corporate Shares Mapped — How Financial Market Experts Interact

The new book ’Marketing Shares, Sharing Markets’ describes how traders, analysts, brokers, and corporate bankers actively contribute in the shaping of…

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European Micro & Nanotech Industry Thrives Amid Euro Crisis

Although business has not grown as much as the companies had expected in the beginning of 2011, still more than half of them have been able to increase orders,…

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African Auditors Push for Global Auditing Standards

’Researchers seem to have underestimated the power of professional norms as a tool to create change in developing countries,’ says the author of the thesis…

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US Income Distribution: Who’s Winning and Losing?

People all over the world have spent almost six months in front of universities, public parks, banks, and even Wall Street to publicly protest their…

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New Measure for Global Equity Market Segmentation Unveiled

The study, by Columbia Business School Professor Geert Bekaert, Chazen Senior Scholar at The Jerome A. Chazen Institute of International Business at Columbia…

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Using finance theory to examine the ideal form of corporations and society

Pursuing the social role of the financial industrySince the 1970s, a time the Modern Theory of Finance finally began to enter Japan, I have conducted research…

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Overcoming Challenges in Wooden Furniture Manufacturing

Sarawak, being the largest state in Malaysia, is a major producer of tropical timber and timber products in the world. However, despite being blessed with…

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KfW Bank Sees Strong Financing Demand Amid Modernization Efforts

In the year 2011, overall promotional business volume of KfW Bankengruppe reached EUR 70.4 billion, more than the originally expected EUR 66 billion.After EUR…

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