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.

Closing The Productivity Gap In Northern Ireland

The booklet, funded jointly by the Economic and Social Research Council and the Department for Enterprise, Trade and Investment (Northern Ireland) presents the…

Businesspeople who are too sure of their abilities are less savvy entrepreneurs: new study

Psychologists say that people who are so ‘full of themselves’ and cocksure of their own abilities are the ones most likely to venture into markets that may be…

University of Kent leads dive tourism research project

Dr Mark Hampton, the University’s Director of CENTICA – the Centre for Tourism in Islands in Coastal Areas, part of Kent Business School – will lead a team of…

British colonial past no protection from corruption

The analysis of survey data from up to 107 countries goes against previous research which argues that countries with a British colonial past inherited systems…

Programmed death boosts business

Palmira López-Fresno of “STIGA” in Barcelona is working with Fernando Fernández-González of the Hospital Central de Asturias in Oviedo to demonstrate how a…

Productivity rises when companies are facing closure

When management is busy dealing with matters other than daily operations, employees shoulder a greater responsibility for their work­ and efficiency is…

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