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Rewiring Financial Networks to Cut Systemic Risk

A tax on systemically risky transactions could reshape financial networks into a new structure that is less vulnerable to cascading financial system shocks…

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Frugal Innovations: Rethinking Efficiency and Resourcefulness

Frugal innovations require a rethink

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Europe's microtechnology industry is attuned to growth

Global economic, social and political developments as well as technological disruptions like the digital transformation do not leave the representatives of the…

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Preferential Trade Agreements: Boosting Global Trade Resilience

The global commodity trade is a complex system where its network structure, which may arise from bilateral and multilateral agreements, affects its growth and…

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Turning Strong Brands into Profits: Insights for Success

The Marketing Department’s main goals are to make brands more recognizable and increase sales. The Finance Department’s work is aimed at safeguarding the…

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Demographic Change: Impact on Germany’s Tax Revenue Explained

In the next decades, population aging in Germany will accelerate and also induce a decline of the total population. These demographic changes can be expected…

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Blockchain’s Impact on Financial Services: Insights from Infosys

Infosys Consulting, in partnership with HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management, has recently published its latest white paper, Blockchain Technology and the…

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Study: Paper or Plastic? How Payment Choices Affect Connection

When it feels easy to pay for something, it might just make us feel less connected to what we're buying, a new U of T Scarborough study says.

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Digital Business Innovation: Launch of BIEC at Fraunhofer IAO

On Thursday, June 30, 2016, Fraunhofer IAO launched the Business Innovation Engineering Center (BIEC). This initiative is designed as a platform where business…

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Intelligent Transaction Tax: Reducing Systemic Risk in Finance

A tax on individual transactions between financial institutions—based on the level of systemic risk that each transaction adds to the system—could essentially…

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Is the Art Market Experiencing a Bubble? Insights Inside

Few sectors of the market have rebounded as robustly as art – particularly contemporary art, which has doubled in value since the beginning of the financial…

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Private Equity Returns: Are Investors Misplacing Their Beliefs?

Many investors believe that higher returns can be achieved by investing in funds which buy firms not listed on stock markets (so-called private equity…

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Container Throughput Index: World Trade Trends and Insights

However, this is not a statistically significant decrease. The average amplitude of revision over the past years was 0.6 points; the June value was revised…

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New STN Enhances Markush Structure Search for IP Pros

Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) and FIZ Karlsruhe are delighted to reveal the latest innovations for Intellectual Property (IP) professionals. New STN, a…

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Deutsche Börse AG Sees Kassamarkt-Umsatz Hit €137.3 Billion

Davon entfielen 127,4 Mrd. Euro auf Xetra (Juli 2014: 91,3 Mrd. Euro). Der durchschnittliche Xetra-Tagesumsatz lag im Juli bei 5,5 Mrd. Euro (Juli 2014: 4,0…

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Container Throughput Index Signals Decline in Global Trade

The index has now been falling since February 2015. The flash estimate for June is based on data for 41 ports, which combined account for almost 73% of the…

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