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World Economy 14/12/2010

How to Hedge Your Bets for a Toast of Burgundy Pinot Noir

Weather derivatives are useful to protect income in climate-sensitive industries: the case of the wine-making sector

Finance 14/12/2010

Calculating Regret

An experiment published in Management Science shows that emotions and regret play an important role in decision making

World Economy 14/12/2010

The Economics of Influenza

Global pandemics: it's by looking at the past that you can plan for effective intervention, and distinguish between the dangerous and the deadly

World Economy 17/11/2010

What If Obama Were the New FDR?

The task force led by Steven Rattner to rescue the auto industry has parallels with the age of the New Deal, as it encourages collaborative interdependence between business, labor and government

Society and Culture 17/11/2010

Italy Lags Behind in Women at Work

In Europe, only Malta does worse than Italy when in comes to female employment, so Lisbon's objectives in terms of activity rates remain distant