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UrduCryptocurrencies have been treated as a financial terra incognita – they enjoyed growing interest but also raised concerns due to their virtuality. The use of statistical methods utilizing correlation matrices to analyze the hundred most-traded virtual currencies shows that the…
Tag: BUSINESS/ECONOMICS
Cocky kids: The four-year-olds with the same overconfidence as risk-taking bankers
Overconfidence in one’s own abilities despite clear evidence to the contrary is present and persistent in children as young as four, a new study by the University of Sussex Business School has revealed. The cognitive bias has been consistently observed…
Want to stop consumer hoarding in times of crisis?
New research may provide the answer
COVID-19 and labour constraints: Recalling former health care workers not enough
Report examines factors affecting U.S. labour supply in essential industries during the pandemic
Cloud-based electronic system may help first responders better react to natural disasters
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Every year natural disasters kill around 90,000 people and affect close to 160 million people worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. Such disasters also result in the destruction of the physical environment of the affected…
Navy to help fund AnalySwift, Purdue technology to improve service life of helicopters
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – An innovation that helps speed the design of fishing rods, satellites and cellphone electronics soon will help the U.S. Navy save millions in costs and downtime, while extending the service life of helicopters. AnalySwift LLC, a…
Major new study charts course to net zero industrial emissions
Interdisciplinary team assesses technology and policy strategies for industrial decarbonization
Artificial intelligence can help some businesses but may not work for others
Research shows that not all types of service firms are equally suited to automation
Healthier chickens, happier consumers
New research to enhance chicken-raising practices
€450 million for Europe’s long-term frontier research
185 scientists win the European Research Council’s Advanced Grants
Millions for cancer research
The European Research Council (ERC) has announced it will support Professor Thomas Blankenstein to the tune of €2.5 million over five years. This year the ERC is awarding Advanced Grants to a total of 158 scientists across Europe. “I am…
Challenges for Russia’s agriculture: new special issue in Russian Journal of Economics
While Russia seems to have successfully tackled its historic problem: food shortage – with the agri-food sector becoming one of the most steadily developing of the national economy – the country is already facing a new set of challenges. Today,…
Medical manufacturers with female directors act more quickly and frequently on recalls
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Medical product companies, such as those that make pharmaceuticals and medical devices, make recall decisions quite differently as women are added to their board of directors, according to a new study by professors at four universities, including…
Purdue innovators moving to fast-track COVID-19 diagnostic, therapeutic solutions
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – As the coronavirus pandemic spreads across the U.S. and the world, Purdue University scientists are working to move solutions to diagnose and treat the virus to the marketplace as soon as possible. The Purdue Research Foundation…
Artificial intelligence can help some businesses but may not work for others
Research shows that not all types of service firms are equally suited to automation
Healthier chickens, happier consumers
New research to enhance chicken-raising practices
€450 million for Europe’s long-term frontier research
185 scientists win the European Research Council’s Advanced Grants
Millions for cancer research
The European Research Council (ERC) has announced it will support Professor Thomas Blankenstein to the tune of €2.5 million over five years. This year the ERC is awarding Advanced Grants to a total of 158 scientists across Europe. “I am…
Challenges for Russia’s agriculture: new special issue in Russian Journal of Economics
While Russia seems to have successfully tackled its historic problem: food shortage – with the agri-food sector becoming one of the most steadily developing of the national economy – the country is already facing a new set of challenges. Today,…
Medical manufacturers with female directors act more quickly and frequently on recalls
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Medical product companies, such as those that make pharmaceuticals and medical devices, make recall decisions quite differently as women are added to their board of directors, according to a new study by professors at four universities, including…
Purdue innovators moving to fast-track COVID-19 diagnostic, therapeutic solutions
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – As the coronavirus pandemic spreads across the U.S. and the world, Purdue University scientists are working to move solutions to diagnose and treat the virus to the marketplace as soon as possible. The Purdue Research Foundation…
What are you looking at? ‘Virtual’ communication in the age of social distancing
First-of-its-kind study explores phenomenon of visual cues and live video interactions
Female directors are quicker to recall dangerous medical products, study shows
Medical product recalls number in the thousands each year. In the first quarter of 2018, for example, 84 pharmaceutical companies in the U.S. reported at least one recall. Some 4,500 Food and Drug Administration-approved drugs and devices are pulled from…
Mandatory building energy audits alone do not overcome barriers to energy efficiency
NYU researchers examine NYC Local Law 87
New tool exploring different paths the corona pandemic may take
Umeå University in Sweden is leading a team of researchers across Europe in the development of a coronavirus simulation framework that can support decision makers to experiment and evaluate possible interventions and their combined effects, in a simulated controlled world.…
How customers search for hedonic versus utilitarian purchases
News from the Journal of Marketing
A lifesaving reason to have more women on boards: ensuring consumer safety
A new study of the medical products industry — the first to examine the impact of female board representation on product recalls — finds that firms with female directors on their boards announce high-severity recalls 28-days faster than all-male boards
Global supply chains as a way to curb carbon emissions
The coronavirus outbreak has companies from Apple to Amazon warning consumers, shareholders and governments about how factory shutdowns in China and across the globe have disrupted global supply chains. Many goods, including cars, mobile phones and medicines, have parts or…
UK local authorities not ready for the number of deaths from Covid-19
The situation could lead to a bottleneck in burials and cremations, mortuaries filled beyond capacity and the possibility of mass graves
Why you should say ‘thank you’ and not ‘sorry’ after most service failures
News from the Journal of Marketing
How personalization and machine learning can improve cancer outreach ROI
News from the Journal of Marketing
How to win more B2B contracts with effective e-sales
News from the Journal of Marketing
The physics that drives periodic economic downturns
The physics behind saving, investment and the time-dependent movement of spreading over an area reveals why all good things must come to an end
Taylor & Francis offers full access to breaking COVID-19 research through new microsite
Taylor & Francis has published a new microsite that aggregates and organizes all recently published COVID-19 research in one easy to navigate portal, including all relevant research articles and book chapters. All breaking research relating to COVID-19 continues to be…
Coal exit benefits outweigh its costs
Coal combustion is not only the single most important source of CO 2 , accounting for more than a third of global emissions, but also a major contributor to detrimental effects on public health and biodiversity. Yet, globally phasing out…
Professor at the University of Toronto presented with Governor’s Award from the Bank of Canada
Toronto – Andrey Golubov, an assistant professor of finance at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, is this year’s recipient of the Bank of Canada’s Governor’s Award. The award is presented annually and provides financial support to academics…
Wiley’s COVID-19 research freely available in publicly funded archives
HOBOKEN, N.J.–March 18, 2020– John Wiley and Sons Inc. (NYSE: JW-A) (NYSE: JW-B), a global leader in research and education, is making all current and future research content and data on the COVID-19 Resource Site available to PubMed Central, the…
National monuments help more than hurt local economies in US West
National monuments and economic growth in the American West
Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt win the Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Economics
The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Economics, Finance and Management has gone in this twelfth edition to Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt for fundamental contributions to the study of innovation, technical change, and competition policy
Scientists answer coronavirus questions on new website
The GovLab at NYU Tandon helps debunk misinformation and provide solid advice from the American Federation of Scientists
New study: National monuments can boost the economy in the American West
RFF researchers demonstrate positive economic impacts of national monuments
Comparisons of organic and conventional agriculture need to be better, say researchers
The environmental effects of agriculture and food are hotly debated. But the most widely used method of analysis often tends to overlook vital factors, such as biodiversity, soil quality, pesticide impacts and societal shifts, and these oversights can lead to…
UMass Amherst biostatistician lends expertise to white house coronavirus task force
New research calculates median incubation period for COVID-19
Majority in national survey against separating immigrant families at US/Mexico Border
Political conservatism is strongest correlation among supporters of ‘zero-tolerance’ policy that resulted in family separations, Baylor researchers find
‘Toxic,’ but still successful professionally?
Mendacious, unfair and selfish: Personnel psychologists at the University of Bonn decode personality patterns
Free coronavirus sequencing kits for researchers offered by U-M startup
ANN ARBOR–As doctors, scientists and governments try to get a grip on COVID-19, the University of Michigan startup Arbor Biosciences is providing free kits to capture the genetic code of virus samples. Variations in that code reveal how the virus…
Even a limited India-Pakistan nuclear war would bring global famine, says study
Soot from firestorms would reduce crop production for years
Aversion to risk by R&D managers may hurt US economic prospects
Executives tolerant of failure in pursuit of reward are best suited to seed innovation needed for growth
Brief entrance test can predict academic success within first year of study in economics
Chances of study success in economics could be determined at the beginning of studies; results of the WiWiSET project
New planting guidelines could boost edamame profits
URBANA, Ill. – Edamame may be a niche crop in the United States, but growers and processors still need the best possible information to make sound management decisions. That’s why USDA Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) and University of Illinois researchers…