Economy

One major difference between professional equity traders and the rest of us is that the pros don't view shares as merely an asset to buy or sell. They routinely borrow other people's securities to short-sell them as part of arbitrage, hedging, and other complex trading activities.... Read more

New research from King's Business School has suggested too much success can be a problem, at least when it comes to innovation.... Read more

In Africa, less than one in five continental airline routes are direct. Air connections are decided by factors like trade levels, diplomatic relations, and whether there's enough demand to make a route financially worthwhile. Because there are so few direct connections in Africa, getting from one country to another often... Read more

A new Journal of Marketing study sheds light on the dynamics of likes in social advertising and their impact on user engagement.... Read more

In 2021, the stock market valuation of GameStop skyrocketed thanks to a social media frenzy. It heralded the rise of the so-called "meme" stock, but also a rise in a particular kind of trading, one driven more by the attention economy than by inherent value in an investment, according to... Read more

Grassroots logistics networks provided food and essential goods to New Yorkers who fell through the cracks of conventional supply chains during the COVID-19 pandemic, offering important lessons for engineers designing the next generation of distribution technologies, according to new research from NYU Tandon and the University of Toronto.... Read more

Compile an emissions balance sheet, evaluate climate-protection measures and implement the most efficient of these first: Researchers from three Fraunhofer institutes have developed a method with which companies from all sectors are able, based on scenarios, to evaluate their climate-protection measures in accordance with ecological and economic criteria.... Read more

Households intensify their search for high-interest savings accounts when the economy turns sour, inadvertently making recessions more severe, according to new research from the University of Surrey.... Read more

You arrive at work, coffee in hand, ready to tackle the day. But your manager seems off, curt in meetings, impatient with questions, and unusually sharp in tone.... Read more

If you like checking social media at work, all that scrolling could have a surprising impact long after you put down the phone.... Read more

Siting new commercial wind energy installations is no easy feat.... Read more

When a departing family CEO actively mentors a younger family leader, that leader is more likely to keep the business financially successful, especially if non-family advisors also weigh in.... Read more

A new peer-reviewed study in the journal Marketing Science sheds light on how online safety-related reviews from Airbnb guests influence booking decisions and how the platform itself balances consumer welfare against its own financial incentives.... Read more

Work, shopping, church and the pub kept different classes apart far more than 'residential segregation' in 1850s Manchester, undermining key assumptions about the Industrial Revolution. Historians have long assumed that Manchester's middle classes sheltered from the poor in town houses and suburban villas.... Read more

Halloween is a fun, scary time for children and adults alike—but why does the holiday seem to start so much earlier every year? Decades ago, when I was young, Halloween was a much smaller affair, and people didn't start preparing until mid-October. Today, in my neighborhood near where I grew... Read more