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Released: 9-Aug-2022 1:05 PM EDT
Arizona State University poised to help close microchip manufacturing gap
Arizona State University (ASU)

Arizona State University, along with a host of state economic development and business leaders, has been deeply engaged to support Sen. Mark Kelly’s efforts to build a consensus in Washington, D.C., for the CHIPS and Science Act. That’s not by accident.

Released: 8-Aug-2022 5:05 PM EDT
Energizing Africa
University of California, Santa Barbara

The economy of Southern Africa is rapidly developing, driving a growing demand for electricity.

Released: 8-Aug-2022 3:30 PM EDT
Is Business Innovation the Cure for What Ails US Health Care?
University of Virginia Darden School of Business

Health care-related expenditures accounted for a record 19.7 percent of U.S. GDP in 2020, according to the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

   
Released: 8-Aug-2022 7:05 AM EDT
Cut tax incentives and multinational firms will cut investment and employment
University of Iowa Tippie College of Business

A new study from the University of Iowa's Tippie College of Business finds that when the European Union overruled tax incentives offered by four European countries to U.S. multinationals, subsidiaries of those firms reduced their investment by an average of $7.6 million.

Released: 4-Aug-2022 2:20 PM EDT
Plant-based ‘beef’ reduces CO2 emissions but threatens 1.5M ag jobs
Cornell University

Plant-based alternatives to beef have the potential to help reduce carbon dioxide emissions, but new economic models show their growth in popularity could disrupt the agricultural workforce, threatening more than 1.5 million industry jobs.

Released: 4-Aug-2022 1:20 PM EDT
Does China’s research and development funding reach the right firms?
Yale University

Chinese investments in research and development (R&D) have burgeoned since the turn of the century, increasing more than tenfold in absolute terms since 2000 and reaching a high of 2.4 percent of GDP in 2020.

   
Released: 4-Aug-2022 11:35 AM EDT
All Roads Lead to Big Cities
Hokkaido University

The phrase “All roads lead to Rome” captures in five words how important roads are for important cities.

Released: 2-Aug-2022 4:05 PM EDT
Research shows that short-term debt makes capital more costly
Bocconi University

A new study finds that investors want to be compensated, in the form of higher returns, for holding the stock of firms that have a relatively higher proportion of short-term debt, rather than long term debt

Released: 2-Aug-2022 2:05 PM EDT
Wildfires are intensifying around the world. Here are the latest headlines in wildfires research for media
Newswise

California’s McKinney Fire grew to become the state’s largest fire so far this year. The risk of wildfire is rising globally due to climate change. Below are some of the latest articles that have been added to the Wildfires channel on Newswise.

       
Newswise: Destination Makers
Released: 28-Jul-2022 10:05 AM EDT
Destination Makers
California State University (CSU) Chancellor's Office

Meet CSU alumni supporting California’s thriving tourism and hospitality industry.

Released: 27-Jul-2022 3:45 PM EDT
Innovation imprinting: Why some firms beat the post-IPO innovation slump
American Marketing Association (AMA)

Researchers from Goethe University, Duke University, and London Business School published a new paper in the Journal of Marketing that explains why some companies remain innovative even after they go public, while many others do not.

Newswise: To Tax or Not to Tax, Is That Even a Question?
Released: 26-Jul-2022 8:05 PM EDT
To Tax or Not to Tax, Is That Even a Question?
Kyoto University

A solution is proposed for evaluating tax efficiency, a formula expressing the marginal cost of public funds as a ratio of a net loss in social surplus to a net increase in tax revenue. This formula is derived from only a few indices, common across specific market demand conditions and cost factors. The indices clearly tell us how the degree of tax-driven social burden relates to imperfect competition.

Released: 25-Jul-2022 2:05 PM EDT
The Spillover Effect of R&D Funding
University of Oregon

Using investments made by the U.S. Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, the paper's authors develop a methodology to trace how technology generated by one firm’s R&D “spills over” and benefits other firms across both geographic and technological space.

Released: 25-Jul-2022 10:30 AM EDT
Study Examines Health Benefits of Affordable Housing-Based Services in NYC
Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health

The JPB Foundation has provided a sizeable grant to the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health to fund a three-year study examining the impact of social, environmental, and health-related services in affordable housing settings on residents’ health and quality of life.

Released: 22-Jul-2022 12:50 PM EDT
Companies must invest to avoid a supply chain scandal or pay the price in lost consumers
University of Surrey

If a supply chain scandal does hit, customers want companies they buy from to act – and a combination of actions, not limited to firing their supplier – is the best way to minimise lost consumers. Apologies are not enough.

Released: 21-Jul-2022 3:50 PM EDT
Gender pay gap linked to unpaid chores in childhood
University of East Anglia

Young women and girls' time spent in unpaid household work contributes to the gender pay gap, according to new research from the Universities of East Anglia (UEA), Birmingham and Brunel.

Released: 21-Jul-2022 3:25 PM EDT
Research Examines the Impacts of Rent Regulation and Implications for Inequality
Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School

Luis Quintero, an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, recently conducted a study examining the socioeconomic impacts of rent regulation with colleagues from the University of North Texas and George Washington University.

   
Released: 21-Jul-2022 1:05 PM EDT
What Harry Potter can (and can’t) teach us about economics
Oxford University Press

A new paper in Oxford Open Economics, published by Oxford University Press, explores “Potterian economics”—the economics of the world of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series.

19-Jul-2022 2:00 PM EDT
The Outer Limits: Future Economic Growth in the Face of Diminishing Resource
University of California San Diego

In 1972, "The Limits to Growth" stated that the Earth’s resources cannot support current rates of economic and population growth indefinitely. UC San Diego Professor of Physics Thomas Murphy agrees that our current trajectory is unable to continue much longer. His assessment appears in Nature Physics.

Newswise: Global Supply Chains Remain Resilient in the Wake of Natural Disasters
Released: 19-Jul-2022 8:05 AM EDT
Global Supply Chains Remain Resilient in the Wake of Natural Disasters
University of California San Diego

While many U.S. policy makers are calling for reshoring and nearshoring to combat trade disruptions caused by COVID-19, new University of California San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy research suggests retrenchment of global supply chains is unlikely to happen in the post-pandemic context.

Released: 18-Jul-2022 3:10 PM EDT
Fed Stress Test’s Non-Transparency: Why it Hampers Banks
University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business

Maryland Smith risk expert Clifford Rossi explains the extent to which banks are hampered by not getting to see the Federal Reserve’s stress test model and how this can affect the economy.

   
Newswise: Chloe Gibbs to serve on Council of Economic Advisers
Released: 18-Jul-2022 2:20 PM EDT
Chloe Gibbs to serve on Council of Economic Advisers
University of Notre Dame

Chloe Gibbs, assistant professor of economics at the University of Notre Dame, has been appointed to a one-year term as a senior economist on the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA).

Newswise: Call for Abstracts – The 17th APRU Multi-Hazards Symposium 2022
Released: 18-Jul-2022 8:55 AM EDT
Call for Abstracts – The 17th APRU Multi-Hazards Symposium 2022
Chulalongkorn University

The Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, would like to cordially invite you to join the 17th APRU Multi-Hazards Symposium 2022, which will be held during November 29 – November 30, 2022 at the Mandarin Hotel Bangkok Samyan, Thailand.

Released: 12-Jul-2022 4:05 PM EDT
New Study Reveals Benefits of Hybrid Working for Disabled Workers but Some Fear Choice Between Health and Career Progression
Lancaster University

Eighty-five per cent of disabled workers in the UK say they are more productive working from home, new research by the Work Foundation reveals.

   
Released: 11-Jul-2022 6:15 PM EDT
Organization Launched, Executive Team Hired to Lead Binational San Diego-Tijuana World Design Capital 2024
University of California San Diego

Following a successful joint bid for World Design Capital 2024 (WDC 2024), the UC San Diego Design Lab (Design Lab), Design Forward Alliance (DFA), Burnham Center for Community Advancement (BCCA), city of San Diego (San Diego) and city of Tijuana (Tijuana), today announced the creation of a new, 501c3 organization to coordinate the binational initiative. The new organization, the San Diego-Tijuana World Design Capital 2024, also announced its executive leadership team, which will guide the nonprofit organization and provide oversight and direction for community involvement, planning, preparation and execution of the year-long 2024 World Design Capital initiative.

Released: 11-Jul-2022 6:05 PM EDT
Lanzamiento público de la Organización, se contrata equipo ejecutivo para liderar la Capital Mundial del Diseño Binacional San Diego-Tijuana 2024
University of California San Diego

Dando seguimiento a la exitosa designación para La Capital Mundial del Diseño 2024 (WDC 2024), Encabezado por UC San Diego Design Lab (Laboratorio de Diseño), Design Forward Alliance (DFA), Burnham Center for Community Advancement (BCCA), Ciudad de San Diego (San Diego) y la Ciudad de Tijuana, el dia de hoy se anuncio la nueva organización 501c3 que se creo para poder llevar a cabo la iniciativa binacional. La nueva organización, Capital Mundial del Diseño 2024 de San Diego-Tijuana, también anuncio su equipo de liderazgo ejecutivo, que es el que guiará a la organización sin fines de lucro y brindará la supervisión y dirección para la gestión, planificación, preparación y ejecucción de la Capital Mundial del Diseño 2024 que se llevará a cabo durante todo el año.

Released: 11-Jul-2022 3:50 PM EDT
How Can Deficits Be Avoided at Major Sporting Events?
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

The World Cycling Championships in Bergen in 2017 had budgeted slightly more than €16.5 million in both revenues and costs. They missed the mark on both counts, and the event incurred a € 5.8 million deficit.

Newswise: Black Households Suffer the Most from Rising Inflation Rates
Released: 11-Jul-2022 2:05 PM EDT
Black Households Suffer the Most from Rising Inflation Rates
University of California San Diego

Black households in the U.S. faced higher and more volatile inflation compared to white households from 2004 to 2020, reveals new research from the University of California San Diego’s School of Global Policy and Strategy.

Released: 11-Jul-2022 11:15 AM EDT
Deep Economic Divide Found Even Among Employed People During COVID-19
Washington State University

An exploratory study with implications for the growing gig-economy indicates there were only two kinds of workers during COVID-19: the haves and the have-nots.

Released: 11-Jul-2022 10:30 AM EDT
What’s changed in Cuba in the year since the protests?
University of Miami

University of Miami experts versed about the Caribbean nation address what has transpired since the July 11, 2021, anti-government protests.

Released: 8-Jul-2022 1:05 PM EDT
New Study Explores Link Between Job Losses and the Health of Young Adults During the Great Recession
Dickinson College

A new study published in the journal Health Economics is the first to comprehensively examine the impact of job losses during the U.S. Great Recession of 2008-09 on the mental health, physical health and the health behavior of young adults.

Released: 8-Jul-2022 12:40 PM EDT
Sweetened Beverage Taxes Produce Net Economic Benefits for Lower-Income Communities
University of Washington

New research led by University of Washington professors James Krieger and Melissa Knox found that sweetened beverage taxes redistributed dollars from higher- to lower-income households.

   
Released: 7-Jul-2022 4:30 PM EDT
Natural Selection May Be Making Society More Unequal
University of East Anglia

Contemporary humans are still evolving, but natural selection favours those with lower earnings and poorer education - according to research from the University of East Anglia.

   
Released: 7-Jul-2022 1:40 PM EDT
New Study Finds Transportation Expenses Drive Urban Cost of Living
George Washington University

Economists utilized an advanced version of an urban simulation model to study the determinants of housing cost in cities. They discovered that higher transportation costs have a greater impact on the cost of living than zoning restrictions.

Newswise: Electric Vehicle Buyers Want Rebates, Not Tax Credits
Released: 7-Jul-2022 8:05 AM EDT
Electric Vehicle Buyers Want Rebates, Not Tax Credits
George Washington University

Financial incentives play an important role in the widespread adoption of electric vehicles. New research from the George Washington University, however, finds that not all financial incentives are created equal in the eyes of prospective car buyers, and the current federal incentive — a tax credit — is, in fact, valued the least by car buyers.

Newswise: New NUS Centre for Hydrogen Innovations embarks on cutting-edge research to power a hydrogen economy
Released: 3-Jul-2022 11:05 PM EDT
New NUS Centre for Hydrogen Innovations embarks on cutting-edge research to power a hydrogen economy
National University of Singapore (NUS)

The National University of Singapore has established a new Centre for Hydrogen Innovations, supported by Temasek, with the aim of creating breakthrough technologies to make hydrogen commercially viable as a green energy source. The first of its kind in Southeast Asia, the new centre will develop capabilities to help reduce reliance on fossil fuels as a source of energy and will also nurture talent for a sustainable hydrogen economy.

   
Released: 30-Jun-2022 11:05 AM EDT
Liquidity and Capital Risk Webinar Set for July 20
University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business

Experts from Maryland Smith, Deloitte and Ginnie Mae will discuss major challenges facing financial markets and ways for firms to improve the monitoring, measurement, and management of liquidity and capital risk.

   
Newswise: Belgian Researchers Explain Why People with Lower Economic Status Don’t Trust Politicians as Much
Released: 29-Jun-2022 11:55 AM EDT
Belgian Researchers Explain Why People with Lower Economic Status Don’t Trust Politicians as Much
The Polish Association of Social Psychology

The ‘anomie’ concept – that the society is disintegrating and losing moral standards – explains why people with low socio-economic status trust politics less than those with a higher one, concludes a new study published in the scientific journal Social Psychological Bulletin.



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