Economics & Finance

It’s past time for the international humanitarian community to get serious about disaster mitigation and preparedness.

Austerity can be blamed for Europe’s sluggish growth, but what about Southern Europe’s structural issues?

Hans-Werner Sinn, the president of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research says the ECB was wrong to cut rates. I disagree.

Hungry graduates are grateful to have jobs, but are today’s young people complaining less than they should?

Patent wars loom for Google and its Android operating system. Can it defend itself this time?

The 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics to Eugene Fama and Robert Shiller gives both sides of the Market Efficiency debate due recognition. But the two are also interrelated.

For some it is clear that the all-time record levels in the stock market are supported by loose monetary policy and the day policy starts changing, stock markets will suffer a sharp drop. While I also worry about the tendency of stock markets and investors to be overoptimistic, I am less concerned by the fact that we are hitting all-time record levels.

Risk management in normal situations relates to economic or financial change. For companies entering politically unstable markets in the Middle East, the concept gets a little more complex.

For countries that have been running a large current account deficit for years, a “sudden stop” of capital is contractionary, regardless of the flexibility of exchange rates.

Are markets fundamentally efficient or inefficient? Economists are polarized, and the Nobel Prize Committee is playing both sides of the debate.

The interest surrounding impact investing has not yet translated into a substantial increase in the amount of capital deployed. But that may be changing.

Scepticism and uncertainty surrounding the recent conclusions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) should not be a call for policy inaction

As headlines of apparent risk management failure or weak oversight inside one of Wall Street’s largest institutions abound, we argue that the story of a loss of 0.25 percent of the bank’s assets is getting too much face-time from regulators and the press.

How to produce and deliver a winning presentation Part 3: Passion – I like the way you look So you will have seen through Part 1: Prepared Goals and Part 2: Command Attention, the sequence of events and tasks that help you ensure that your presentation is remembered for all the right reasons, rather than all the wrong reasons. Here in this section of Part 3 I want to focus in on your Passion through facial expression. What do I mean by Passion?