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.

Research says low paying jobs damage future employment prospects

While unemployment is viewed as a bad signal by prospective employers, economists have speculated that being in a low-quality job may well be an equally bad…

VTT and Nokia developed a simulation model for more effective product development

Nokia and VTT have developed a system dynamic model asset to solve complex process challenges. The model asset is utilized in improving product process…

New research questions Scotland's growth rate

Over the post devolution period (1998-2006) the new research delves deep into the data at sub industry level and finds a number of difficult to explain trends,…

Don’t Trust Experts’ Forecasts, O.R. Study Says

A study about predicting the outcome of actual conflicts found that the forecasts of experts who use their unaided judgment are little better than those of…

Money illusion and the market

To illustrate, compare a situation in which money wages increase 2.3% and prices increase 3.1% over one year with a situation in which money wages fall by 0.8%…

Dutch economists and psychologists probe consumers' emotions

Internationally renowned consumer behaviour and social psychology scholars will present their latest views at a conference to mark the occasion. Tiber's…

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