Equally educated people are healthier if they live in more educated places. Every 10 percent point increase in an area's share of adults with a college degree is associated with a decline in all-cause mortality by 7%, controlling for individual education, demographics, and area characteristics....

Why are there so few women in finance and even fewer managing funds? There is a major discrepancy between the number of female and male fund managers worldwide. The aim of this paper is to ascertain if gender is a contributing factor to fund managers’ performance. This is examined through...

In the context of increasing regulation and the introduction of harmonized accounting standards, the issue of costs and benefits of changes in accounting standards have been discussed by policy makers, market participants and companies. While it is widely assumed that the harmonisation in...

French Abstract:Ce document de travail traite des questions du taux de change et de la politque de taux de change. Il s'agit d'une analyse des instruments de la politque economique et ses répercussions sur le commerce international.Dans les années 1970 et 1980, le monde était à la recherche...

Ernest Dichter (1907-1991) was one of the leading marketing experts who developed motivational research and was often called the “Father of Motivational Research”. Born in Vienna he studied and worked in Vienna and Paris. He realised the danger of the rise of Hitler and Nazis in Europe and...

Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and sustainability investing have become very popular with institutional, family office and more recently, retail investors. In the UK the range of ESG and sustainable funds for retail and high net worth (HNW) investors is still relatively small but...

With the collapse of LTCM in 1998, global macro investing / trading suffered a severe blow in terms of acceptance in the markets. Because of many highly leveraged hedge funds, investors and counterparts lost serious money, markets were at the brink of destabilisation and the regulators had to...

Why are there so few women in finance and even less managing funds? There is a major discrepancy between the number of female and male fund managers worldwide. The aim of this paper is to ascertain if gender is a contributing factor for fund managers performance. This is examined through...