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Shoppers would pay more for their weekly groceries if it meant improved welfare for farm animals, according to new research from the University of Reading.This post was originally published on this site

Historians have for decades chronicled instances of discriminatory practices under Federal Housing Administration and Veterans Administration mortgage programs, but the extent of these biases has been unknown. The first national-level analysis of early FHA and […]

When brands spend millions every year to transport Super Bowl audiences back in time during commercials, what happens if they choose the wrong era? Knowing who prefers which part of history is valuable marketing knowledge, […]

In the much-loved 1980s sitcom, still in perpetual reruns, the four wisecracking women who share a house in Miami met through an ad on a supermarket bulletin board.This post was originally published on this site

Could the 2008 financial crisis strike again? How would today’s banks react? One way for government regulators to findout is to stress-test large financial institutions: analyze how their balance sheets would weather possible calamities.This post […]

The income gap between the global north (the advanced economies of the core) and the global south (the developing economies of the periphery) has increased by between 170% and 270% since 1960, according to a […]

To explain the stock market’s reaction to earnings results, investors and other market participants have used a standard tool for decades: the earnings surprise.This post was originally published on this site

An SKKU research team led by Professor Travers B. Child of the SKK Graduate School of Business (SKK GSB) has become the first in the world to use micro-level data to demonstrate that aid fragmentation—the […]

Encouraging people to contribute to a common good can have a surprising drawback: a risk that rewards become concentrated among a smaller group, putting the rest at a disadvantage. Put more simply, “equality and cooperation […]

Researchers at the University of Bath and The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) suggest that the celebrated Dunning-Kruger effect, often taken to mean the least competent people are the most overconfident, may […]