Green Bonds: A Possible Solution to Climate Change
By Ruilang Qin
/ June 15, 2020
The financial sector is a powerful force to combat climate change. … Read moreGreen Bonds: A Possible Solution to Climate Change
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Yield Curve Control and its Implications for the US Economy
By Harry Farnell
/ June 13, 2020
With business beginning to reopen and risk sentiment improving, the US is likely to return to a degree of normalcy in the coming months. … Read moreYield Curve Control and its Implications for the US Economy
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Hyperbolic Discounting: The underestimated power of behavioural economics
By Riya Abraham
/ May 10, 2020
Here are two options:
Option 1: £150 today
OR
Option 2:£300 tomorrow
Which option would you choose? … Read moreHyperbolic Discounting: The underestimated power of behavioural economics
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Infection and Inflation: Covid-19 and CPI
By Arlan Abzhanov
/ May 7, 2020
How will the difficulties in measuring inflation during the Covid-19 pandemic affect the economy … Read moreInfection and Inflation: Covid-19 and CPI
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Economic History: The North-South Divide
In the last century, changes in the UK’s social and economic landscape have created significant regional disparities in areas such ...
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How effective are nudges in enforcing Covid-19 restrictions around the world?
As popularised by Nobel Laureates Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein in 2017, nudging a form of intervention in which the ...
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Collusion and Cartels
When somebody mentions cartels, the first thing that may come to one's mind would be drug cartels, such as the ...
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America, Are we going to see An Economic repeat of the Fall of the Great Roman Empire, Part 2.
Part 1 of the series focused primarily on the past - current situation in America however now in the 2nd ...
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Behavioural policy making – A possible way out
The term “policy” is with mankind for a long time. It is explained as a predetermined course of action adopted ...
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What is a better fit for analysis – quantitative or qualitative modeling?
The world today is in the middle of a pandemic, which is as far as we can go to quite ...
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America, Are we going to see An Economic repeat of the Fall of the Great Roman Empire, Part 1
Thursday the 30th of July 2020. For most that is as insignificant a date as any, however for the US ...
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Low-Yielding Debt and the Vanishing Yield Cushion
As has been obvious to see, the recent COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting stimulus from Central Banks worldwide has sent ...
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Are women economically hardest hit by the Covid-19 pandemic?
Although it has been proven that men are at a higher medical risk of being affected by the Coronavirus itself, ...
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The Fall and Rise of Independent Bookstores
When Amazon entered the book market sometime around early 1995, it was only the beginning of a change that would ...
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Abenomics and Deflation: An Analysis
On Friday 28th August, Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest serving postwar Prime Minister announced that he would be stepping down after ...
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Role of Education in Economic Development
Mawut, born in war-torn South Sudan, fled to Kenya as an infant and sacrificed everything simply to go to school ...
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Are patterns of Revenge Shopping in China indicative of what is soon to be a boom for the luxury industry?
In April, when the high fashion luxury goods brand Hermes` reopened its store in China, it saw sales worth US ...
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The Uninterrupted Cascading of the Turkish Lira
The Turkish Lira continues to plummet at a fleeting rate since the turn of the year, and economists state that ...
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Covid-19 Introduced an Economy-Crippling Fear
If I was to state at the start of 2020 that a single event would disrupt the entire global economy, ...
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How the COVID- 19 crisis will affect the trend of digitisation?
The advent of the Coronavirus pandemic has revealed certain vulnerabilities to humanity. The first wave of the impact has destabilised ...
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Will the Indian EdTech Industry survive a post-Covid and back-to-normal world?
An IMF forecast projects 2020’s global economic activity to contract by 3 %, making it even worse than the 2008 ...
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The Case for Italian Bonds in a Zero-Yielding Environment
Recently, the US and the UK have joined Japan and Germany in the convergence of their 10-Year yields towards zero ...
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Bailouts, Buybacks, and Blame in the Time of COVID-19
In light of the recent Coronavirus pandemic, governments around the world have been forced to bailout companies to prop up ...
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Green Bonds: A Possible Solution to Climate Change
Climate change might be the most complex issue the humans have ever encountered. Apart from the physical destruction worldwide, there ...
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Yield Curve Control and its Implications for the US Economy
With business beginning to reopen and risk sentiment improving, the US is likely to return to a degree of normalcy ...
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Will Covid-19 hasten the death of the oil industry?
Within the past decade, the petroleum sectors' problems have finally been revealed to the general public, most notably its environmental ...
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Panic and the Peso: Argentina’s Debt and Currency Woes
Last Friday, Argentina missed the final deadline for a $500 million of interest payments on its sovereign debt. In response ...
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The Demise of NMC Health
A story with a scandal never seen before. Unprecedented fraud. The collapse of a multibillion company. And it all circles ...
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The Devastating Impact of Idle Nuclear Weapons
We've all seen apocalyptic visions of a nuclear wasteland in the near future. Yet, the impact of unused nuclear weapons ...
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Hyperbolic Discounting: The underestimated power of behavioural economics
Here are two options: Option 1: £150 today OR Option 2: £300 tomorrow. Which option would you choose? Here a ...
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COVID-19 Promises Long-Term Damage to the UK Economy
Due to the detrimental impacts of Coronavirus on business confidence and liquidity, the Bank of England recently revitalised its Quantitative ...
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JAPAN: Saving Face, Losing Money?
It's a saying [the Japanese] have, that a man has a false heart in his mouth for the world to ...
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Infection and Inflation: Covid-19 and CPI
How will the difficulties in measuring inflation during the Covid-19 pandemic affect the economy? The Consumer Price Index (or CPI) ...
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Brexit: A Very British Revolution
Due to the repercussions of the shocking 52% to 48% split in votes, in favour of the UK exiting the ...
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A War of Two Economic Superpowers
The two most powerful economies in the world -the U.S and China- have locked horns and engaged in a bitter ...
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‘After the Storm Come the Vultures’ – Justice in Times of Crisis
Justice. Freedom. Equality. Three pillars upon which we have established and nurtured the roots of civilisation. Three pillars which are ...
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COVID-19 infects the global economy
Just 3 months ago, the economic climate seemed more certain and robust than ever with Brexit finally being finalised and ...
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