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.

Stock Options Improve Executive Performance but Have Minimal Effect on Rank-and-File Workers

It’s become an article of faith in Silicon Valley that those rewards create incentives for employees to work harder and smarter, in turn rewarding the…

It’s a Double-Witching Hour for Homebuyers

If you missed the deadline, don’t panic – relief is on the way, according to Richard Marmon, an associate professor of accounting in the Rohrer College of…

German micro- and nanotechnology industry sees economic trend reversed

More than half of the companies say that business in the first half of 2010 fared better than expected. The companies are positive about the second half of the…

KfW Entwicklungsbank boosts innovation and modernisation in SMEs in the Russian Federation

At today's German-Russian government consultations in Ekaterinburg, KfW Entwicklungsbank signed in the presence of Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel and…

'Econophysics' points way to fair salaries in free market

The research presents a new perspective on 18th century economist Adam Smith's concept that an “invisible hand” drives a free market economy to a collective…

EDHEC Survey of the Asset and Liability Management Practices of European Pension Funds

This survey has been taken as part of the second year of the AXA Investment Managers “Regulation and Institutional Investment” research chair at EDHEC-Risk…

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