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Internet domains

Overcrowded Internet domain space is stifling demand, suggesting a future ‘not-com’ boom

01 Mar 2016

New research suggests that a lack of remaining domain names with easy to remember – and consequently valuable – word combinations is restricting...

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Shanghai by Night

Opinion: G20 finance chiefs meet as China seeks to make a show of its presidency

29 Feb 2016

Peter Wiliamson (Cambridge Judge Business School) discusses the meeting of G20 finance chiefs and the Chinese economy.

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UK online alternative finance market grows to £3.2 billion in 2015

17 Feb 2016

̽»¨Ö±²¥UK online alternative finance sector grew 84% in 2015, facilitating £3.2 billion in investments, loans and donations, according to a new report...

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Opinion: What do our spending habits reveal about our romantic intentions?

16 Feb 2016

Eric Levy (Cambridge Judge Business School) discusses how thinking about meeting a new partner can impact our shopping decisions.

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 ̽»¨Ö±²¥Prime Minister holds a bilateral with the Indian PM

Opinion: Six deals to look out for as Indian PM Modi visits Britain

11 Nov 2015

Jaideep Prabhu (Cambridge Judge Business School) discusses the business deals we can expect to be struck as a result of Narendra Modi's visit to the...

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Stock exchange workers. Typically the valuation of companiespresumes that capital structure does not influence value, but the new study identifies several consistent features among the financing activity of real estate firms

Capital structure used to gauge firms’ foundations

09 Feb 2015

Patterns in the financing activities of firms could be used as a litmus-test to determine company value, according to a new report.

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Ship loading at the Cargill Elevator

Agricultural markets and the Great Depression: lessons from the past

07 May 2014

Seventy five years ago, the publication of John Steinbeck's novel ̽»¨Ö±²¥Grapes of Wrath shocked the world with its description of starvation in the...

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That was supposed to be going up, wasn't it?

Stress hormones in financial traders may trigger ‘risk aversion’ and contribute to market crises

18 Feb 2014

New study’s findings overturn theory of personal risk preference as a ‘stable trait’, and show that real source of instability in risk behaviour “...

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2013 National Scholarship Programme Awards made

27 Nov 2013

̽»¨Ö±²¥ ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge has made 295 National Scholarship Programme awards to support students from low-income families starting at the...

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Money4web

Global economic institute creates partnership with Cambridge economists

15 Feb 2013

In the wake of the global financial crisis, a new partnership plans to shake up economic thinking to reflect a rapidly changing world.

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 ̽»¨Ö±²¥Jarrow March symbolises austerity in the 1930s

Austerity Britain: it's déjà vu all over again

16 Jan 2013

̽»¨Ö±²¥last 100 years have seen several governments introduce austerity measures to try to balance the books. Duncan Needham, a Phd candidate in the...

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Money.

Keynes comes home to Cambridge

08 Nov 2012

A five-year project to publish the collected works of pioneering British economist John Maynard Keynes, is today unveiled by Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥...

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