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.

Online shoppers will pay extra to protect privacy

Findings from the study, the first to suggest that people will pay a premium to protect their privacy when shopping online, will be presented Friday, June 8,…

Cultural understanding increases seafood exports

Norway exports seafood to around 155 different countries throughout the world, and the seafood industry is one of our most important export trades.Norwegian…

Turning research into commercial reality

The search is on for ‘would be’ entrepreneurs who want to turn their research ideas into a successful business. The third RCUK Business Plan Competition is…

Flexible workplaces reduce rate of sickness absence

Gun Johansson, a postgraduate at Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet, presents in her thesis the illness flexibility model in order to elucidate…

Economists put much higher value on loss of loved ones than Courts

Professor Andrew Oswald from the University of Warwick said: “Many of the valuable things in life — love, friendship, health — come without price-tags…

Skills Used In British Workplaces Still Rising

The report, “Skills At Work, 1986 to 2006”, written by Professor Alan Felstead (Cardiff University), Professor Duncan Gallie and Dr. Ying Zhou (Oxford…

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