News tagged with finance sector

Work video calls connect with personal smartphones

Telepresence colossus Polycom is connecting secure workplace video-call systems with hot smartphones to stay in synch with a trend toward people using their own gadgets on the job.

Technology / Software

created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Research: No evidence for 'too big to fail' policies

The U.S. economy would be better served by letting failing firms file for bankruptcy rather than by bailing them out under presumptive federal policies that deem them to be "too big to fail," according to ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Apr 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 2

Research reveals why hedge funds are an unlikely large source of systemic risk

The Journal of Financial Economics recently published a paper by Andrew Ang, Chair, Ann F. Kaplan Professor of Business and Chair, Finance and Economics Division at Columbia Business School; Sergiy Gorovyy, PhD candidate, Columb ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Jul 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Early-bird commenters well-positioned to frame public policy

A new study in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management demonstrates that public commenters who participate during the early phases of regulatory policymaking play an important agenda setting role. Results suggest that t ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0