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Little Crashes Could Protect Stock Market
EMBARGOED UNTIL WEDNESDAY 7 AUGUST 2002 19:00 BST UK CONTACT - Claire Bowles, New Scientist Press Office, London: Tel: +44(0)20 7331 2751 or email claire.bowles@rbi.co.uk WALL STREET`S sneezing fit continues, and the rest of the world can`t shake off its cold. Could the answer be to "immunise" the stock market by injecting it with a dose of minor... view more... (2002-08-07)
Wishful betting can contaminate financial markets, study shows
Wishful bettors, those who make overly optimistic investments, will ultimately harm themselves financially, but they can harm entire markets as well, new research shows. view more (2009-03-12)
Electronic Markets Win Out Over Traditional Dealing
Trading through dealers on the London Stock Exchange could be obsolete in less than three years, according to new research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. A study led by Dr Nir Vulkan of the Sa'-d Business School and Worcester College, University of Oxford, investigated where traders would trade if they have the choice of... view more... (2003-05-15)
Why youth hostel showers are like the stock market
Diversity keeps you warm. At least that is true while you're having a shower in youth hostels. If you like, this sums up the research project just published by scientists from the Universities of Fribourg and Bonn. Their result is not as trivial as it sounds. Ultimately it shows that heterogeneity provides stability, whether this is in a shower,... view more... (2008-02-12)
Irrational exuberance behind recent stock gains, says UAB finance expert
A second straight week of stronger-than-expected third quarter earnings from a broad cross section of U.S. industries has held the nation's Dow Jones Industrial Average above the psychological benchmark of 10,000 points for the week of Oct. 19, but the climb isn't likely to last, says a finance expert at the University of Alabama at Birmingham... view more... (2009-10-22)
Stock Market Swings Help Researchers Understand Extreme Events in Solar Wind
Astrophysicists at the University of Warwick have applied data analysis methods used to model stock market fluctuations, to explore changes in the solar wind (the sun's expanding atmosphere). They have discovered that the fluctuations in the solar wind follow the same kinds of patterns seen in the stock markets - particularly when it comes to the... view more... (2002-07-25)
ICES advises zero catch on more cod stocks
This Friday, scientists from ICES will release a report giving more strong advice to the European Commission and governments to reduce fishing pressure. In particular, cod stocks in the Kattegat, eastern Baltic and Norwegian coastal cod are all depleted and being overfished and ICES will advise zero catch of cod in these areas for 2005. (The... view more... (2004-06-08)
Chemistry & Industry Issue 1 - Cover Date Monday 7 January 2002
From Issue 1 2002 Chemistry & Industry has a new look and updated contents, including the launch of the C&I stock price indices. Based on the price of shares in 22 blue chip chemicals companies in Europe and North America, the value of the portfolio has been normalized to 100 and we await developments. Its value will be printed fortnightly on... view more... (2002-01-02)
Reducing CEOs' option-based compensation decreases risky investments
Since the recent bailout on Wall Street, the public has started to heavily scrutinize firms' large executive pay packages. view more (2008-10-23)
Active labor market programs reduced contracted mobility
The probability of moving house to take a job outside one's own home region decreased after participation in labor market programs in Sweden. This is shown in a report from IFAU (Institute for Labor Market Policy Evaluation) titled "Employment, mobility, and active labor market programs," written by Peter Fredriksson and Per Johansson.... view more... (2003-02-21)
1990s labor market policies led to lower unemployment but also fewer jobs in Sweden
An active labor market policy of the sort pursued by Sweden in the 1990s is no “miracle cure” for unemployment. This is shown in a report from IFAU (Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation) authored by Lars Calmfors, Anders Forslund, and Maria Hemström. The report, titled “What do we know about the employment effects... view more... (2002-06-26)
Owning too much company stock puts workers' retirement at risk
Congress should ban employer stock from company-sponsored retirement plans to spare workers the risk of putting too much of their nest eggs in one basket, a new study by a University of Illinois legal expert says. view more (2009-06-23)
Telecommunications industry urged to move with the times
TELECOMMUNICATIONS companies worldwide must make "fundamental adjustments" to their business models if they are to survive in the complex and highly competitive new economy, according to new research by the Universities of Newcastle and Strathclyde, UK. A research paper published in a special issue of the journal Telecommunications Policy (1),... view more... (2002-10-11)
Scottish SMEs missing out on £20 billion of hidden assets
Scottish businesses are sitting on around £20 billion of assets that they that they may not know they have, says Iain Russell of the Intellectual Assets Centre. view more (2005-04-27)
Dartmouth researchers develop computational tool to untangle complex data
A group of Dartmouth researchers have developed a mathematical tool that can be used to unscramble the underlying structure of time-dependent, interrelated, complex data, like the votes of legislators over their careers, second-by-second activity of the stock market, or levels of oxygenated blood flow in the brain. view more (2008-12-17)
Older Americans: How they are faring in the recession
Older Americans have weathered the financial crisis relatively well, although many now expect to work longer than they did just a year ago. view more (2009-09-17)
Carnegie Mellon professors question advice for nuclear attacks
In the current Fox television adventure series, "24," a terrorist explodes a small nuclear bomb in Los Angeles. In the May 2007 issue of the journal Health Physics, Carnegie Mellon researchers Keith Florig and Baruch Fischhoff offer simple, practical advice that ordinary citizens can use when faced by such threats. view more (2007-04-11)
Who needs environmental monitoring?
We monitor the stock market, the weather, our blood pressure. Yet environmental monitoring is often criticized as being unscientific, expensive, and wasteful. view more (2007-06-08)
Chasing thundersnow could lead to more accurate forecasts
The job of one University of Missouri researcher could chill to the bone, but his research could make weather predicting more accurate. view more (2009-01-14)
Farmers' markets harvest new business
Something fresh is growing in Indiana. The number of farmers' markets in the state has increased at double the rate of other U.S. states; between 1994 and 2004 the number of farmers' markets in Indiana increased by an impressive 222%. Researchers at Purdue have published an insightful study that identifies the reasons behind this unprecedented... view more... (2009-11-05)
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