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The Role Prediction Markets Play In Assessing Climate Risk

The Horizons Tracker

. “The institutional arrangements under which climate-risk information is currently provided mirrors the incentive problems and conflicts of interest that prevailed in the credit-rating industry prior to the 2007/8 financial crisis,” the researchers explain. ” Understanding climate risk.

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New Study Predicts Gloomy Economic Times Ahead For Americans

The Horizons Tracker

This situation is often compounded by poor credit or liquidity issues, which can render people unable to move to a new job with better income, or even to a new area. It’s a situation the researchers believe could be exacerbated by the current crisis.

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Crisis of Faith in the Financial System

Harvard Business Review

The Ming note is printed with the statement that it is "To Circulate for Ever" — quite a vote of confidence from the treasury, and presumably one necessary for such an innovative approach to payment and livelihood. In the end this money did become worthless.".

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What Economists Know That Managers Don’t (and Vice Versa)

Harvard Business Review

For an example, reconsider the financial crisis. To begin with, quite a few parts of it are heavily concentrated at a global level (the credit ratings business, for example, or global investment banking), and many more at the national level (just six financial institutions account for 46% of all U.S.

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What Economists Know That Managers Don’t (and Vice Versa)

Harvard Business Review

For an example, reconsider the financial crisis. To begin with, quite a few parts of it are heavily concentrated at a global level (the credit ratings business, for example, or global investment banking), and many more at the national level (just six financial institutions account for 46% of all U.S.