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.

Contrary to popular belief, investment banks do add value to M&As, new study shows

However, despite certain biases, investment banks do add value to mergers and acquisitions and, in fact, produce important information for the M&A advisory…

Large Differences in Outcomes of Attempts to Eliminate Double Taxation

The study sheds light on the vastly different results that the established methods to eliminate double taxation may yield in certain situations: that a…

As laws on repossessed auto sales ease, CFSP economists show consumer access to credit jumps

The study from the Consortium on Financial Systems and Poverty examines car loans from one of Brazil’s leading banks before and after a 2004 law that enabled…

Many U.S. families are underwater with debts: U-M study

According to a new University of Michigan report (PDF), about one out of every five U.S. households owe more on credit cards, medical bills, student loans and…

The wisdom of retail traders

A forthcoming paper in the Journal of Finance by Professor Paul Tetlock, Roger F. Murray Associate Professor of Finance at Columbia Business School, and Eric…

Researcher suggests: 35-hour workweek for parents

One way to handle the stress is to take advantage of the right for Swedish parents to work half time, according to a new doctoral thesis from the University of…

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