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Interest rates: why the era of cheap money is finally ending

December 14, 2021

The Bank of England was widely expected to slightly increase its official bank rate on November 4, but it decided to stick to the all-time low of 0.1%. However, the bank has made it clear that a rise will […]

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Get ready for the invasion of smart building technologies following COVID-19

December 2, 2021

The past two years were a busy time for real estate professionals. While commercial buildings like office towers, shopping malls and hotels stood empty for months in a row as a result of the COVID-19 […]

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Why are investors so cocky? They often have a biased memory – and selectively forget their money-losing stocks

November 30, 2021

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Stock investors mistakenly remember their past investments as better than they actually were, which leads them to be overconfident about how they’ll perform […]

Crypto & Blockchain

What are NFTs and why are people paying millions for them?

November 29, 2021

Last week, Christie’s sold a digital collage of images called “Everydays: The First 5000 Days” for US$69.3 million dollars. This week, Elon Musk said he’s selling a tweet of his as an NFT, which contains a […]

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The Pandora Papers: How punishing tax cheats can serve as a deterrent

November 28, 2021

Law-abiding taxpayers look on with disappointment and disdain as details about the illicit financial arrangements of the ultra-wealthy surface — again. The latest leak of nearly 12 million offshore financial records — the so-called Pandora Papers — […]

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Worker shortage? Or poor work conditions? Here’s what’s really vexing Canadian restaurants

November 26, 2021

Restaurant operators across Canada are struggling to find enough staff to run their operations. This labour crisis has been highly publicized by Canadian media as a “labour shortage.” A recent survey by Restaurants Canada found that 80 per […]

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NFT performance art: Corporations could capitalize on protest

November 24, 2021

Russian artist Petr Davydtchenko made what what he claims was the first performance art NFT in February. According to an article in The Art Newspaper, in a digital recording, Davydtchenko “eats a live bat in front of the European Parliament […]

Crypto & Blockchain

What is Bitcoin’s fundamental value? That’s a good question

November 18, 2021

As it hits new highs, there is no shortage of bold predictions about Bitcoin reaching US$100,000 or more. Often these are based on not much more than extrapolations by people with vested interests: the price has gone […]

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Ethereum: the transformation that could see it overtake bitcoin

November 8, 2021

The world’s second most valuable cryptocurrency, ether, has been touching all-time highs in price ahead of a major upgrade of its underlying platform, ethereum. Ether is currently worth in aggregate just shy of US$500 billion (£363 […]

Crypto & Blockchain

What is decentralized finance? An expert on bitcoins and blockchains explains the risks and rewards of DeFi

November 4, 2021

Fervent proponents of cryptocurrencies and the blockchains they run on have promised a lot. To them, these technologies represent salvation from corporate power over the internet, government intrusions on liberty, poverty and virtually everything else that ails society. But so far, […]

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Economics & Business

People who swap mundane jobs for meaningful careers still have it tough, study indicates

Credit ratings are a key check on CEO overconfidence in corporate acquisitions, new research finds

Why it doesn’t—and shouldn’t—always pay to be a super-successful CEO

Switch to two-point rating scales to reduce racism in performance reviews, research suggests

Study says green consumers focus on brands and fashionability

People who use AI at work are perceived by colleagues as lazier and less competent, study finds

A temporary international market exit may lead to future global expansion

Clues to accounting fraud are hiding in plain sight

What shoppers say about sustainability doesn’t match how they spend, study finds

How a 5,000-year-old technology, politics, and culture led to modern wealth inequality

Technology

New study reveals generative AI boosts job growth and productivity

AI model classifies images with a hierarchical tree from broad to specific

Nvidia to send 18,000 AI chips to Saudi Arabia

Deep learning model dramatically improves subgraph matching accuracy by eliminating noise

Europe backs generative AI to drive clean energy transformation

AI can scan vast numbers of social media posts during disasters to guide first responders

AI methods help predict the emergence of ‘gazelles’ and other high-growth firms, but challenges remain

AI meets the conditions for having free will—we need to give it a moral compass, says researcher

British govt suffers setback in AI copyright battle

Inner workings of AI an enigma—even to its creators

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