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FOR SEVEN decades Britons had daily contact with their queen, as they handled notes and coins bearing Elizabeth II's face. When Elizabeth died in September 2022 she was succeeded on [...]

Byline: Debashis Basu The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has unveiled a consultation paper to revise the regulatory framework governing investment advisers (IAs) and research analysts (RAs). Among [...]

AFTER SAM ALTMAN was sacked from OpenAI in November of 2023, a meme went viral among artificial-intelligence (AI) types on social media. 'What did Ilya see?' it asked, referring to [...]

Byline: Moneylife Digital Team Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) floated a consultation paper seeking comments on a proposal to keep material price movement as the criteria [...]

The enduring value of an analogue technology T HIS IS THE digital age, and the advice to executives is clear. Managers need to have a digital mindset; the organisations they [...]

Byline: Ranganathan V A judgement of the Supreme Court, dated 6 September 2022, in the case of Rainbow Papers Ltd, opens a new chapter with regard to the consideration of [...]

It was a year ago this month that China experienced the biggest wave of unrest since the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Thousands of people, mostly students and youngsters, gathered [...]

Byline: Moneylife Digital Team Holding IKEA India Pvt Ltd responsible for committing deficient service and unfair trade practices, a district consumer commission directed the ready-to-assemble furniture maker to pay Rs [...]

Two thatch huts were still smouldering when Daniel Ellsberg and his group reached the village. It took nothing to destroy them; just a Zippo lighter. Children were searching for toys [...]

Byline: Moneylife Digital Team Amidst the Adani-Hindenburg row, market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has issued a consultation paper seeking enhanced transparency measures for foreign portfolio investors [...]

Byline: Moneylife Digital Team Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has published a consultation paper on institutional mechanisms for stock brokers, including identification and surveillance of fraudulent [...]

Byline: Moneylife Digital Team Paying heed to issues faced by customers, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has decided to extend to 31 December 2023 its deadline for renewal of [...]

Byline: Alan Paul Varghese Banks across the country have started to follow directions issued by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on safe deposit lockers. However, due to a lack [...]

India's markets are roaring. They also have serious faults F EW STOCKMARKETS flourished in 2022. Strong performers include ones in commodity-exporting countries like Brazil, Indonesia and the Gulf states, which [...]

A good reed A new history of the written word is no plod through dusty libraries W HY DO READERS love books? For wisdom and wit, the lift of comedy [...]

Byline: Vinita Deshmukh Any major policy decision, and in this case pertaining to the future of thousands of youngsters who are staking a career as Agniveers in the newly launched [...]

Byline: Alice Jones The Pandora Papers data leak, published in October 2021, continues the long line of tax avoidance scandals from LuxLeaks to the Paradise Papers. The scandal draws yet [...]

Byline: Moneylife Digital Team While quashing an order passed by SEBI, the Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) asked the market regulator to pass a fresh order within three months on a [...]

Byline: Moneylife Digital Team The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) is considering bringing in mutual fund units under the purview of insider trading regulations.. Insider trading generally refers [...]

Byline: Moneylife Digital Team The Congress party has asked for a comprehensive white paper on the bankruptcy proceedings while accusing the government of protecting defaulters through huge write-offs through the [...]

I f you write a book called 'The Honest Truth About Dishonesty', the last thing you want to be linked to is fake data. Yet a paper by Dan Ariely, [...]

Byline: Moneylife Digital Team Several well-known names with links to trusts in tax havens have bene exposed by the Pandora papers, which is the latest trove of leaked data exposing [...]

P oliticians' private finances are a big political issue in central Europe, as Andrej Babis well knows. Mr Babis, a billionaire who is prime minister of the Czech Republic, faces [...]

Shell companies, tax havens and European politicians POLITICIANS' PRIVATE finances are a big political issue in central Europe, as Andrej Babis well knows. Mr Babis, a billionaire who is prime [...]

Byline: Alice Jones Leaked financial information about offshore accounts could implicate multinational enterprises (MNEs) and lead to criminal convictions. Large companies are likely to face increased scrutiny on their tax [...]

Byline: Ranganathan V The Tamil Nadu (T.N.) government has brought out a white paper, the equivalent of an economic survey but with much better precision and more readability, on the [...]

Byline: Moneylife Digital Team Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has decided to keep unchanged its Rs5 lakh penalty imposed on Sasidhar V, former head of customer [...]

My precious Rapidly rising paper prices are changing books T HE SECOND world war was a hard time for British publishers. Paper imports collapsed; paper started being made from straw; [...]

Byline: Sucheta Dalal Professionals dealing with the resolution process under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) narrate innumerable malpractices, but usually do not want to be named, since they would [...]

A recent study conducted by the National Research Institute for Science Policy (NRISP) analyzed the relationship between food security, patents, and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in developing countries. The study found that there is an upward trend in the publication and citation of scientific outputs related to food security in these countries. China was found to have higher numbers of papers, patents, GDP, and food production index compared to Iran, Japan, and South Korea. The research concluded that there is a significant relationship between increasing scientific output, GDP, patents, and food security, emphasizing the importance of scientific outputs in driving technological advancements and ensuring food security in developing countries. [Extracted from the article]

Purpose: Sustainability has long been known to present an epistemic challenge. In the corporate setting, this challenge translates into the difficulties experienced by managers not only in devising solutions to corporate sustainability problems, but even in developing the awareness of the latter. The paper explores how these difficulties may be overcome by corporate stakeholder management policies. Design/methodology/approach: The paper develops a conceptual framework that reconstructs the Hayekian theory of market process in the context of Williamson's (1996) distinction between autonomous and cooperative adaptation. Findings: Applying the Hayekian theory of market process to the process of engagement and collaboration of corporate stakeholders, the paper shows how the latter process may address the epistemic challenge of corporate sustainability and derives implications for the design of business models for sustainability. Originality/value: The paper informs stakeholder theory in two ways: first, stakeholder theory is given a novel justification in terms of reflecting the growing prominence of cooperative adaptation and second, corporate stakeholder management is shown to be crucial for maximizing not only economic but also sustainability performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Byline: Moneylife Digital Team Mexican 4e Brands North America LLC, which was found selling a hand sanitiser made with a toxic, industrial form of alcohol, has filed for bankruptcy, say [...]

Why cash is now more appealing as a portfolio asset EVER HAD the feeling that there is a party somewhere that you're not invited to? It is the same feeling [...]

Soaring newsprint costs make life even harder 'IT'S LIKE TASERING an elderly person who's already on a pacemaker,' says a British newspaper boss of the newsprint market, where prices have [...]

Won't be needing these any more FOR MOST people, money still means physical cash printed by a sole, public authority. Yet that is a surprisingly modern incarnation: only a century [...]

The article offers information on a nation's economy is described in numbers, but academicians use words to explain those numbers. It discusses that Scholarly papers forecasting the state of the economy are more than equally matched with opinion pieces in the daily press that also attempt to forecast the state of the economy; and mentions that EconLit, the primary database covering the scholarly literature of economics, is produced by the American Economic Association (AEA).

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to construct a frequency-domain framework to study the asymmetric spillover effects of international economic policy uncertainty on China's stock market industry indexes. Design/methodology/approach: This paper follows the time domain spillover model, asymmetric spillover model and frequency domain spillover model, which not only studies the degree of spillover in time domain but also studies the persistence of spillover effect in frequency domain. Findings: It is found that China's economic policy uncertainty plays a dominant role in the spillover effect on the stock market, while the global and US economic policy uncertainty is relatively weak. By decomposing realized volatility into quantified asymmetric risks of "good" volatility and "bad" volatility, it is concluded that economic policy uncertainty has a greater impact on stock downside risk than upside risk. For different time periods, the sensitivity of long-term and short-term spillover economic policy impact is different. Among them, asymmetric high-frequency spillover in the stock market is more easily observed, which provides certain reference significance for the stability of the financial market. Originality/value: The originality aims at extending the traditional research paradigm of "time domain" to the research perspective of "frequency domain." This study uses the more advanced models to analyze various factors from the static and dynamic levels, with a view to obtain reliable and robust research conclusions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Large-scale risk events in the venture capital (VC) market can easily lead to systemic risk in the financial market. This paper collects the comprehensive dataset of Chinese VC market from 1999 to 2020, and constructs the multi-layer networks of VC market. After that, a risk contagion model of venture capital market is designed considering both the capital loss transmission and social relations effect (investor herd behavior). By simulating various situations with different risk origins and scales, the speed of risk contagion and the total impacts on the overall stability of the market (network) are compared. We find that the herd behavior of the market will generally aggravate the consequences of risk contagion. Compared with unicorns, the failure of a leading VC firm can cause a wider range of risk contagion. The contagion consequences caused by the failure of random financing companies are more serious than those caused by random VC firms. Moreover, we identify that telecommunications services and information technology are high-risk industries in VC market. Based on the empirical results, this article provides policy implications for the market regulatory sectors to prevent VC market risks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A study conducted by the National College of Ireland explores the use of digital mental health technologies and the potential impact of surveillance capitalism on these platforms. The research highlights the need for reliable and scalable mental health care, but also raises concerns about the extraction and commercialization of mental health data by big tech companies. The study examines the terms, conditions, and practices of ten popular mental health apps and argues that real value for society cannot be achieved if power, politics, and profits remain in the hands of these companies. The paper calls for attention to be given to promoting democracy and public value in digital mental health solutions. [Extracted from the article]

A report from the University of Barcelona explores the ongoing challenges faced by tourism capitalism, even as the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic have subsided. The researchers argue that these crises are not simply external factors affecting tourism, but are instead deeply rooted within the dynamics of tourism capital accumulation. Drawing on a historical materialist perspective and critical theorization of capitalism, the paper challenges conventional understandings of tourism crises and their underlying drivers. The study reflects on the nature of these crises in relation to the evolution of Spanish tourism capitalism and the ongoing efforts to address its inherent instability. [Extracted from the article]

A recent research paper from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee examines the relationship between cryptocurrencies and traditional financial markets. The study finds that the causal relationship between the two is cyclical and only significant in the short term. The COVID-19 pandemic does not appear to influence this relationship, and the gold price has the most significant impact on cryptocurrency portfolio returns. The research suggests that adding cryptocurrencies to portfolios with traditional financial assets can help reduce risk. The paper has been peer-reviewed and is available for further reading. [Extracted from the article]

Purpose: Customer-intensive services refer to the service that a provider needs to invest in customers with high patience and experience. Within a certain rate range, the slower service rate and the longer service time, the higher customer's utility; however, this may cause queue congestion. And the advertising of service provider will affect the revenue. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of advertising on the optimal price, service rate and the optimal revenue of such service provider at different development stages. Design/methodology/approach: This paper investigates the service strategies of service provider based on advertising effects. The authors first divide service provider into insufficient customers or sufficient customers according to the development stage, then analyze the impact of advertising at different stages. The authors focus on the formulation of the optimal price, service rate and the optimal revenue of service provider at different stages. Findings: This paper finds that in the insufficient customers stage, the service provider's strategy of "small profits but quick turnover" is conducive to quickly accumulating customers. With the development of service provider, the advertising indirectly increases the revenue of service provider by maintaining popularity. The result also shows that with the development of service provider, the initiative of such service market has gradually been mastered by service provider, from "buyer market" to "seller market." Originality/value: The finding provides an alternative explanation for the impact of advertising on service provider's optimal strategies; it also solves the settings of service price and rate of customer-intensive service provider at different development stages. This study is essential to create the optimal revenue and solve supply–demand conflicts (such as doctor–patient conflict) between service provider and customers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A study conducted at York St. John University in the United Kingdom explores the role of teachers in shaping children's connections to forest places and establishing educational modes of existence during Forest School sessions. The study argues for a greater focus on the intersections between materiality and meaning in establishing educational modes of existence and place connections. The research emphasizes the importance of developing children's relationship with nature and challenges popular notions of "nature deficit disorder." The study draws on ethnographic data and highlights the need for a topological perspective to fully understand place connection. [Extracted from the article]

A recent study conducted by a researcher from the University of Sydney explores the impact of liquidity risk on bond pricing in China's bond market after the COVID-19 pandemic. The study analyzes various variables such as liquidity ratio, coupon rate, issuance cycle, return on equity, and issuance volume to test the impact of liquidity risk on corporate bond pricing. The findings indicate that liquidity risk significantly affects the market interest rate of corporate bonds, highlighting the importance of considering liquidity risk in bond pricing and market stability. The study suggests that investors should take a comprehensive perspective and pay attention to the impact of liquidity risk on the bond market. [Extracted from the article]

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to whether competition between platforms can be effective, thus leading to efficient allocations. Design/methodology/approach: Based on the classic linear Hoteling model, this paper builds a two-period competition model for two competing platforms using two variants, namely, a discrimination pricing model and a unified pricing model. Findings: In the case of the discrimination pricing model, the competition is moderate, and the two platforms split the market evenly in the first stage, while both platforms tended to offer preferential treatment to new users and set higher prices for regular customers in the second stage. Compared to the unified pricing model, in the first stage, the platform can provide a higher price that depends on the cross-network effect when it implements discrimination, and thus, obtains higher profits. However, in the second stage, fierce competition leads to the release of benefits, new and regular customers obtain lower prices and the platforms lose higher profits. In the long-run, discriminatory pricing is not the best option due to lower total profits. The two platforms will implement cooperative pricing or one platform becomes dominant. Originality/value: Instead of focusing on the cross-network effects, this paper emphasizes the role of the same-side network effect on price discrimination regarding the platforms' competition. The same-side network effects are investigated in relation to a discrimination pricing strategy and compared to a unified pricing strategy. Another innovative aspect is the study of these network effects in a dynamic setting based on a two-period competition model for two platforms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article present an interview with Peter Long, EVP-Strategy and Health Solutions at Blue Shield of California, U.S. Topics include the health plan's innovative approach to value-based payment (VBP) models; Long's insights on the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) recommendations; the steady adoption of value-based care; and Blue Shield's hybrid VBP method that incorporates monthly payments for primary care and increased incentives based on tangible outcomes.

Researchers at the University of Economics in Bratislava have conducted a study on the development of educational systems during various crises in the 2020s. The study analyzed over 970 publications indexed by Scopus from 2020 to 2024 and used R Studio Bibliometrix, VOSviewer, and Connected Papers to structure the scientific work. The research identified key areas of concentration, including education disruption, learning loss, and the broader impact on inclusive growth and sustainable development. The study found that COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine had the greatest impact on the transformation of education systems. The findings aim to understand the causes and consequences of educational crises and formulate recovery plans to mitigate global risks. [Extracted from the article]

A recent study conducted by Kid Risk Inc. explores the use of mathematical models in the development of poliovirus vaccines and the economic analysis of polio eradication strategies. The study reviews modeling papers published between 2020 and 2024, focusing on poliovirus transmission and health economic analyses. The research finds that despite the anticipated end of poliovirus transmission and the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), the number of modeling groups supported by GPEI partners has doubled, and their publications have increased. However, changes in governance, management, and decision-making have decreased the overall impact of modeling results. The study also highlights the complexity and uncertainty introduced by the failure of the 2016 coordinated cessation of type 2 oral poliovirus vaccine use and the introduction of new vaccines and formulations. [Extracted from the article]