Bargains Galore!

Digital bargain hunters: optimal online searching

06 May 2015

Easterners are more inclined than Westerners to search too long online for the best deals because they are more sensitive to the 鈥榮unk cost鈥 of their previous search efforts, according to a study from Cambridge Judge Business School.

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Cooperation

Cooperative communities emerge in transparent social networks

09 March 2015

An online experiment reveals that the overall level of cooperation in a group almost doubles when the previous actions of all its members are rendered transparent. When all social connections within the group are also made transparent, the most cooperative band together to form their own community 鈥 ostracizing the less cooperative.

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El Ni帽o waves crash into a pier

Study reveals economic impact of El Ni帽o

11 July 2014

El Ni帽o has a significant impact on the world and local economies - and not always for the worst - and countries should plan ahead to mitigate its effects, according to a new Working Paper from the 探花直播 of Cambridge.

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Africa: the coming revolution

21 May 2014

Africa鈥檚 fastest-growing economies could offer a radical alternative to the West鈥檚 current reliance on national capitalism according to an academic who helped coin the term the 鈥榠nformal economy鈥.

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Ship loading at the Cargill Elevator

Agricultural markets and the Great Depression: lessons from the past

07 May 2014

Seventy five years ago,聽the publication of John Steinbeck's novel 探花直播Grapes of Wrath shocked the world with its description of starvation in the midst of plenty. PhD candidate Rasheed Saleuddin is re-evaluating established views of the causes of the Great Depression and argues that there are lessons to be learned today.聽

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Holinshed's Chronicles 1557

Naughty money: clippers and coiners in 16th-century England

12 April 2014

In 2017 a new 拢1 coin will appear in our pockets with a design聽extremely difficult聽to forge. In the mid-16th century, Elizabeth I鈥檚 government came up with a series of measures to deter 鈥渄ivers evil聽persons鈥 from damaging the reputation of English coinage and, with it, the good name of the nation.聽

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Does economics need less maths or more?

11 April 2014

Has mathematics become too complex and too dominant a force in modern economics? Yes, says Cambridge Judge Business School鈥檚 Michael Kitson; no, says economist Dr William H. Janeway. Here both experts set out their views on what鈥檚 needed to help avoid a repeat of the recent financial crisis.

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Euro bank notes and coins

Sleepwalking into the Euro nightmare

09 November 2013

Eurozone countries are still careering towards a financial and social 鈥榥ightmare鈥 of their own making according to a leading academic speaking at Cambridge 探花直播 on November 11.

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