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.

Immigrants – Sweden’s new poor pensioners

This gloomy future scenario is revealed by a new government inquiry on the pension system carried out by researchers from the School of Business, Economics and…

Doing Good and Doing Well Are Not Mutually Exclusive

Why is poor decision-making so prevalent in today's society? What role can the business community play in helping people make decisions that are more…

Measuring the distance of processes: RUB researchers develop new process in spectral analysis

A milestone in the description of complex processes – for example the ups and downs of share prices – has been reached by mathematicians at the…

Debt-Ceiling Battles Have Little Effect on Financial Market

However, a University of Arkansas finance study suggests that financial markets increasingly regard such controversies as political posturing rather than…

Chinese Americans Don’t Over Borrow, MU Study Finds

Bad mortgage loans and rampant consumer debt were two of the primary causes for the recent economic recession in the U.S. Despite a national trend of debt…

Angel Investor Market Stabilizes in First Half of 2011

A total of 26,300 entrepreneurial ventures received angel funding during the first half of 2011, a 4.4 percent increase from the same period in 2010, and the…

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