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Finance

13-10-2021
Nobel Prize-Economics: Empirical Mode...
Big day plays important role in making interventions and policy decisions. Yesterday (October 11), the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences while announcing the Economic Prize in Memory of Alfred Nobel recognized the power of real-world data.Professors David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens were awarded the economics prize for their work related to natural experiments involving empirical data in analyzing markets such as labor.Natural experiments are those that happen due t...
Finance
24-08-2021
Terrific Three, Terrible Three: 3 Deca...
After three decades of liberalisation, India has shown remarkable progress in alleviation of poverty and per capita income growth but fares poorly in education
Finance
12-08-2021
After Three Decades of India's Liberal...
After three decades of liberalisation, India has shown remarkable progress in alleviation of poverty and per capita income growth but fares poorly in education
06-08-2021
Global Textile Colorant Market to Hit ...
In March 2021, Ralph Lauren Corporation, a leading fashion company based in the U.S. launched a revolutionary dyeing platform called Color on Demand. It would help in providing the world’s first scalable and sustainable zero wastewater cotton dyeing system.The company aims to transform the way the cotton coloring process occurs in the fashion industry. As per one of the company officials, “This groundbreaking approach required the participation of Corob, Dow, Huntsman Te...
06-08-2021
What is e-RUPI and How Does it Work?
What is e-RUPI and how it works ?e-RUPI is basically a digital voucher which a beneficiary gets on his phone in the form of an SMS or QR code.  It is a pre-paid voucher, which he/she can go and redeem it at any centre that accepts its.For example, if the Government wants to cover a particular treatment of an employee in a specified hospital, it can issue an e-RUPI voucher for the determined amount through a partner bank.  The employee will receive an SMS or a QR Cod...
06-06-2021
The Unaccounted Consumption of Gold fo...
Kerala is known since ancient times for its spices which brought traders from across the globe and riches to this tiny strip of land in south India. The medicinal, cosmetic and culinary value of spices were well known even in those times. Kerala is also known for its love for gold with gold jewellery stores small and big in every nook and corner of the state. But for a commodity journalist, their staple areas of coverage continues to be  plantations and spices.But K...
Finance
21-05-2021
Decoding Crypto Currency
Very soon you may not need to have dollars or Euro to buy a Tesla Electric car. All you need is bitcoins! And indeed it looks as though you can make windfall ga...
06-05-2021
Bitcoin Mobile Apps Vulnerable to Secu...
Crypto currencies are increasingly being traded using the smart phone apps which are vulnerable and puts at risk the money and personal information of the user. This view is put forward by Guan-Hua Tu, Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering at Michigan State University (MSU). The apps violate Bitcoin's central principles of decentralisation. It is not tied to a central bank or government. No central computer server stores all the information about bitcoin acco...
02-02-2021
What is Mental Accounting? How does it...
Mental Accounting is a concept that describes the mental processes we employ to organise our resource use. Human beings tend to create separate mental budget compartments where specific acts of consumption and payments are linked. It is a concept known to psychology researchers since the 1980's.How does it affect consumer behaviour?Mental accounting describes how the human mind functions when performing acts of consumption. For eg. someone bought a movie ticket in adva...
Finance
18-01-2021
Elephant in the Room
The last time India saw its national capital under siege by protestors was in 2011 when an anti-corruption wave brought tens of thousands to Delhi, demanding ...
Finance
24-08-2020
Caltech Does Law of Supply and Demand ...
Economists at Caltech have analysed data from 2000 repetitions of the experiment to test the Law of Supply and Demand from across the globe. This was possible...
Finance
14-06-2020
Oil Conundrum: Crashing Crude, Rising ...
SREEKUMAR RAGHAVAN About two decades ago, renowned cartoonist Abu Abraham used to draw thematic cartoons which were largely used by business houses for...