Economics

Quitting tobacco could give a major economic uplift to the incomes of more than 20 million households in India, suggests an economic analysis published in the open access journal BMJ Global Health.This post was originally […]

A University of Houston researcher and his collaborators have developed a mathematical model that helps identify whether a competitive environment is healthy, stagnant or skewed. Published in the journal npj Complexity, the study led by […]

A new study, published in the British Journal of Management, examines the high-profile cases of Theranos, Purdue Pharma, Enron, and Wirecard, and claims that the desire to pin the blame on individuals has allowed the […]

Australians don’t need an economist to tell them they’re hurting at the petrol pump. They feel it every time they pull into a service station, every time they rethink a planned holiday, or every time […]

Musicians around the world agree on one thing: streaming platforms are essential for their careers. Most also agree on another: they don’t pay enough. A new report from the Oxford Internet Institute and the University […]

A study of nearly 200,000 Amazon reviews shows that the usefulness of online product reviews depends not only on what is said, but on how the information is structured. The researchers, from the Universities of […]

When people interact in person, subtle signals like facial expressions, body language, and tone of voice play a crucial role in communicating intent and meaning, whereas written communications lack these nonverbal cues and can lead […]

If you’re among the 93% of people who struggle with perfectionism at work, new research suggests that your experience may depend less on your own high standards and more on whether those standards meet your […]

If you ever wondered why the most ruthless characters in corporate dramas, such as Succession, keep rising to the top, new research from the UBC Sauder School of Business suggests that dynamic is not just […]

Some developing country governments spend years making the reforms that international financial institutions want—only to find that their efforts are not rewarded. They may make budgets more transparent, publish their debt obligations, set up independent […]