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What's the meaning of Christmas? For many, it's about feasting, family, and napping while watching the cricket.
What's the meaning of Christmas? For many, it's about feasting, family, and napping while watching the cricket.
Economics & Business
Nov 29, 2021
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Twitter is full of jokes, memes, and exasperated ramblings about ongoing supply chain issues. Shortages and delays have been happening throughout the pandemic—who can forget the scramble for toilet paper? But even now, ...
Economics & Business
Nov 1, 2021
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Every investor is chasing the answer to one question: When should I buy stocks and when should I sell them? It's the elusive formula for timing the market. New research co-authored by Albert "Pete" Kyle, the Charles E. Smith ...
Economics & Business
Oct 5, 2021
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Stock trading volumes in the United States have soared over the last year and much of it seems to be driven by retail investors. With thousands of stocks to choose from, what factors influence investors' decisions?
Economics & Business
Aug 12, 2021
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An analysis of web sales data from the top 100 US online retailers shows that digital sales channels including direct website visits, display ads, e-mail marketing, organic search, paid search, referrals, and social media ...
Economics & Business
Aug 5, 2021
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Retail traders often fear that reducing the amount of urban space made available for parking private vehicles would have a negative effect on their businesses. A survey conducted by researchers from the Institute for Advanced ...
Economics & Business
Jul 20, 2021
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Nearly 350,000 Canadian women who lost their jobs during the pandemic hadn't returned to work as of February 2021, resulting in a drop in women's unemployment not seen in the last two decades, according to a new Simon Fraser ...
Social Sciences
Jun 24, 2021
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Researchers from Colorado State University, Amazon, and Dartmouth College published a new paper in the Journal of Marketing that examines the role of physical stores for selling "deep" products.
Economics & Business
Jun 18, 2021
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Approximately one-third of all U.S. counties do not exempt grocery foods from the general sales tax, which means the lowest-income families living in those areas are most susceptible to food insecurity. New research from ...
Economics & Business
May 26, 2021
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Researchers from Monash University, Queensland University of Technology, and Capital University of Economics and Business published a new paper in the Journal of Marketing that examines the effects of imaginative product ...
Economics & Business
May 14, 2021
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