http://www.physorg.com/science-news/economics/ en-us PhysOrg.com provides the latest news on economics The issues are raised in a new Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) publication - What is policing for? Examining the impact and implications of contemporary policing intervention. The publication which highlights the views of experts presented during a Public Policy Seminar series organised by the ESRC in collaboration with the Scottish Institute for Policing Research, The Police Foundation, and the Universities' Police Science Institute. http://www.physorg.com/news180705358.html Other Sciences - Economics Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:20:01 EST news180705358 (PhysOrg.com) -- In a result that may have implications for financial regulation, researchers from computer science and economics have revealed potentially impenetrable problems with the pricing of financial derivatives. They show that sellers of these investments could purposefully include pieces of bad risk that no buyer could detect even with the most powerful computers. http://www.physorg.com/news180640677.html Other Sciences - Economics Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:50:05 EST news180640677 (PhysOrg.com) -- Banks with strong political connections were more likely to receive bailout money from the government -and more of it -in the past year than those with weaker ties, say University of Michigan researchers. http://www.physorg.com/news180641012.html Other Sciences - Economics Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:40:02 EST news180641012 (PhysOrg.com) -- A bailout by neighboring emirate Abu Dhabi has apparently stabilized Dubai`s financial crisis. But the longer-term economic impact -on Dubai and other nations -could grow more serious. http://www.physorg.com/news180636038.html Other Sciences - Economics Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:01:26 EST news180636038 (PhysOrg.com) -- Rather than being trapped in dead-end jobs, many people hired by temporary help agencies actually earn higher hourly wages and are better educated than permanent employees, and move quickly between temporary and regular jobs, a new University of Florida study finds. http://www.physorg.com/news180635869.html Other Sciences - Economics Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:50:02 EST news180635869 (PhysOrg.com) -- States with small governments, low taxes and labor market freedom enjoy greater benefits from natural resource development than states with large and intrusive government policies, according to a new study by a Florida State University researcher. http://www.physorg.com/news180368874.html Other Sciences - Economics Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:40:01 EST news180368874 (PhysOrg.com) -- A Cornell researcher has developed simulation models to predict the economic implications of selling wine in New York grocery stores. With a new law, the state could reap about $22 million a year. http://www.physorg.com/news180200007.html Other Sciences - Economics Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:34:07 EST news180200007 As pension funds have grown and become increasingly complex many have turned to using multiple, often pricier specialist managers to steer their investment decisions. http://www.physorg.com/news180116860.html Other Sciences - Economics Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:40:01 EST news180116860 Projecting the charisma of a newly hired Chief Executive Officer often leads financial analysts to make crucial errors in forecasting the company's future performance, according to a new study in the current issue of Organization Science, a journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). http://www.physorg.com/news180101050.html Other Sciences - Economics Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:30:18 EST news180101050 As the national discussion of health care focuses on costs, a new study from North Carolina State University shows that it might be more accurate to think of health care spending as an investment that can spur economic growth. The study also shows that government projections of health care costs and financing may be unduly pessimistic. http://www.physorg.com/news180027478.html Other Sciences - Economics Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:30:03 EST news180027478 (PhysOrg.com) -- As we near the end of the year, Phoenix-area home prices have started to go up, but another wave of foreclosures is likely to hit soon. That's according to the author of the latest Realty Studies report from the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. http://www.physorg.com/news179685024.html Other Sciences - Economics Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:50:01 EST news179685024 (PhysOrg.com) -- A Cornell study has identified four strategies that restaurants use to reap higher wine sales: including the wine list on the food menu and listing prices without a dollar sign. http://www.physorg.com/news179598181.html Other Sciences - Economics Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:30:03 EST news179598181 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new study suggests certain types of funding -- which provide more freedom and focus less on near-term results -- lead to more innovative and influential research. http://www.physorg.com/news179595645.html Other Sciences - Economics Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:20:19 EST news179595645 (PhysOrg.com) -- Anjan Thakor, finance professor at the Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis, will present a new theory on the causes of the financial crisis to a meeting of the New York Federal Reserve Bank on Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009. http://www.physorg.com/news179430234.html Other Sciences - Economics Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:44:43 EST news179430234 A gut-level connection with workers may be the key to encouraging whistle-blowing that could chip away at an estimated $652 billion lost to fraud annually by U.S. businesses, an ongoing University of Illinois study suggests. http://www.physorg.com/news179426399.html Other Sciences - Economics Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:30:04 EST news179426399 For many people "rural" is synonymous with low incomes, limited economic opportunity, and poor schools. However, a recent study at the University of Illinois found that much of rural America is actually prosperous, particularly in the Midwest and Plains. http://www.physorg.com/news178983147.html Other Sciences - Economics Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:50:02 EST news178983147 (PhysOrg.com) -- The well-publicized toy recalls of 2007 took potentially harmful toys off the shelves and affected the companies that made them. http://www.physorg.com/news178968932.html Other Sciences - Economics Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:37:31 EST news178968932 Communicating "I have some good news and some bad news" is better than combining messages into a single, bleak result when small gains and large losses occur together, according to a study in the current issue of Management Science, the flagship journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). http://www.physorg.com/news178814577.html Other Sciences - Economics Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:00:01 EST news178814577 The effectiveness of the existing bankruptcy code has long been a source of vigorous debate. More and more lately, high-profile firms like General Motors, Enron, and K-Mart are seeking protection from creditors through Chapter 11 filings. But are these firms really getting the "fresh start" they need? In a recent edition of Financial Management, researchers Randall Heron, Erik Lie, and Kimberly Rodgers argue that the Chapter 11 process is flawed and fails to offer the clean slate needed to establish new capital structure. http://www.physorg.com/news178810031.html Other Sciences - Economics Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:50:01 EST news178810031 (PhysOrg.com) -- Why do some online ad campaigns go viral while other online marketing messages gather "cyber-dust" on the information superhighway? The key may lie in the motivation of Internet users to email that content to their social network, say researchers from Ryerson University and Simon Fraser University. http://www.physorg.com/news178450312.html Other Sciences - Economics Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:50:01 EST news178450312 (PhysOrg.com) -- Florida's consumer confidence fell three points to 69 in November amid continued concerns over the state?s high unemployment rate, according to a new University of Florida survey. http://www.physorg.com/news178311097.html Other Sciences - Economics Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:52:02 EST news178311097 The recent financial crisis and resulting global economic downturn has been the most defining global economic event since the Great Depression. Now research which appears in the November issue of Strategic Organization, published by SAGE, illustrates new ideas and philosophies in economics from strategic management, uncovering the micro-level underpinnings of the macro-level events we witness today. http://www.physorg.com/news178279828.html Other Sciences - Economics Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:30:02 EST news178279828 Scaling back mail delivery from six days a week to five may be the best bet to stem mounting U.S. Postal Service losses, but could still be a gamble, says a University of Illinois economist who has studied the agency's persistent financial decline. http://www.physorg.com/news178225816.html Other Sciences - Economics Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:10:59 EST news178225816 Richer nations with competitive crop production and few trade barriers would fare the best if climate change, weather events or other factors cause yields of grain and oilseed crops to become more volatile, a new study has found. http://www.physorg.com/news178208797.html Other Sciences - Economics Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:27:07 EST news178208797 (PhysOrg.com) -- With the severe national recession of the past two years finally behind us, the pace of economic recovery will be slow and unemployment will remain high for quite some time, say economists at the University of Michigan. http://www.physorg.com/news177873896.html Other Sciences - Economics Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:00:06 EST news177873896 (PhysOrg.com) -- Toronto - The time has come to turn Canada's supplemental pensions jumble into a coherent system with a clear goal and a clear plan to achieve it, according to Keith Ambachtsheer, Director of the Rotman International Centre for Pension Management and an adjunct professor of finance at the Rotman School Management at the University of Toronto. http://www.physorg.com/news177869601.html Other Sciences - Economics Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:40:01 EST news177869601 (PhysOrg.com) -- An October survey of 3,800 consumers by the National Foundation for Credit Counseling found that more than two thirds (68 percent) planned to pay in cash for their holiday purchases this year, while only 22 percent planned to charge them to their credit cards. http://www.physorg.com/news177846854.html Other Sciences - Economics Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:55:01 EST news177846854 In their competition with brick-and-mortar stores, online retailers will do best if they promote the ability to search out and obtain niche products online, according to the Management Insights feature in the current issue of Management Science, the journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). http://www.physorg.com/news177772797.html Other Sciences - Economics Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:50:03 EST news177772797 The more prominent and financially successful a corporation becomes, the more likely it is to break the law, according to a new study led by a Michigan State University scholar that challenges previous research. http://www.physorg.com/news177772914.html Other Sciences - Economics Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:23:13 EST news177772914 Tax increases are the only solution to a widening budget crisis that a new study says has landed Illinois among the nation's most financially troubled states, a soon-to-be-released report by a team of University of Illinois economists warns. http://www.physorg.com/news177761361.html Other Sciences - Economics Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:30:03 EST news177761361