Business and Finance

This area provides up-to-date and interesting developments from the world of business, economics and finance.

A wealth of information is available on topics ranging from stock markets, consumer climate, labor market policies, bond markets, foreign trade and interest rate trends to stock exchange news and economic forecasts.

Study: the price of recreation goods affects how much time American men spend at work

In a study appearing in the July 2007 issue of the Journal of Labor Economics, Jorge Gonzales-Chapela (Universidad de Alicante, Spain) combines…

Micro-finance alleviates poverty

Micro-finance really came under the spotlight after Professor Mohammad Yunus and Grameen Bank in Bangladesh won the Nobel Peace Prize for their work relating…

Effective Regulation in the Transatlantic Marketplace

The conference will be addressed by Mr. Josef Ackermann, Chairman of the Management Board and of the Group Executive Committee, Deutsche Bank AG and Chairman…

"EconomyDoctor" Internet Service provides figures for EU agriculture

The FADN database is a significant farm-level database. As an example, for accounting year 2004, it contains information from 74,000 farms across the European…

BP Addresses Macro-level CSR Challenges in Azerbaijan

Oil-rich countries with unstable and undemocratic governments often suffer from the 'resource curse', with huge increase in state income leading to negative…

CEOs' worth increases even when poor acquisitions are made

That's because while a bad merger can decrease the value of a company's stock and options, CEOs typically acquire new stock options once the deal goes through,…

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