Press Releases
Rising Home Ownership Increases Unemployment
High home ownership has been a major cause of Europe's high unemployment: on average, every additional 10 percentage points on home ownership puts 2 percentage points on the unemployment rate. That is the striking conclusion from a new study first presented to the Royal Economic Society's Annual Conference at The University of Warwick on Wednesday 1 April 1998.
Fear of Risk Limits Merger Success
Most mergers and acquisitions are failing to live up to expectations because parent companies keep new purchases at arm's length instead of actively creating value from the relationship, say strategy experts at Warwick Business School.
Researcher Uses Computer Model of Football Fan Behaviour to Model Trading Patterns of Stockbrokers
The trading patterns of city stockbrokers have a lot in common with the behaviour of crowds of football fans according to University of Warwick Mathematics researcher Keith Still. Keith has developed some revolutionary mathematical tools using a part of Chaos Theory called Orchid Fractal Analysis that provides extremely accurate models of how crowds behave.
New Study Shows Seed Money, Not Personality Creates More Successful Entrepreneurs
A major new study says that simply having a little start up cash, rather than possesing an entrepreneurial personality, is the key factor in making people into successful entrepreneurs. The study, entitled What Makes an Entrepreneur? by University of Warwick Economics Professor Andrew Oswald, has just been published in the prestigious American economics journal Journal of Labor Economics. It concludes that being able to get hold of a spare 5000 pounds sterling doubles someone's chance of being able to run their own business. Psychological factors matter much less.