How many people will contract coronavirus this month? How will the stock market perform next quarter? Will you need an umbrella on Saturday? Given enough information, experts can build forecasting models to predict just about ...
Economics & Business
May 6, 2020
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If you live in a small community where fishing is your primary source of income and nutrition, it's tough to hear you might have to slow, stop or change your activities to more sustainably manage your fish stocks.
Ecology
Apr 22, 2020
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Stock markets around the world have taken significant and historic levels of damage this week due to the rapid spread of COVID-19 across the world.
Economics & Business
Mar 16, 2020
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Why did the U.S. banking crisis of 2007-2008 occur? Many accounts have chronicled the bad decisions and poor risk management at places like Lehmann Brothers, the now-vanished investment bank. Still, plenty of banks have vanished, ...
Economics & Business
Mar 10, 2020
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New research from the Kelley School of Business makes the case that "smoothing the numbers" can be beneficial—if you have the right team in place to handle the job.
Economics & Business
Nov 26, 2019
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Richard Branson rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange on October 28 as Virgin Galactic became the first commercial spaceflight company to list on the stock market. It was valued at more than US$1 billion following ...
Space Exploration
Nov 5, 2019
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UBC Sauder's Markus Baldauf says a tiny tweak to how certain trades happen could make for more efficient stock markets, and it's already being adopted by major players.
Economics & Business
Oct 29, 2019
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A new study shows that two key factors can make freshly appointed CEOs more vulnerable and raise the odds they'll get fired.
Economics & Business
Oct 10, 2019
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NUS data scientists have developed an improved version of the Fama–French three-factor model to provide better estimations of the financial returns for business analysis.
Economics & Business
Sep 25, 2019
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Sexual harassment causes tremendous damage to employees who experience it, leading to higher employee turnover, lower employee productivity, increased absenteeism and increased sick leave costs for companies.
Social Sciences
Sep 4, 2019
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