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Artificial Intelligence: The Ambiguous Labor Market Impact of Automating Prediction
Asymmetric Spillover Between Economic Policy Uncertainty and Exchange Rate Volatility: A Global Network Connectedness Perspective
Does a Municipality's Wellness Affect its Business Growth? This study focuses on the health of a given population to determine if health indicators can be used as a predictor of business growth in a geographic region. A study that was focused on the wellness in a firm, concluded: "that firms can increase operational productivity through socially responsible health policies that improve both workers' wellness and economic value" (Gubner et.al., 2018). That study was typical of most papers on wellness. It analyzed the impact of a corporate wellness program on worker productivity. While interesting, it was severely limited in scope as it was based on only one firm. Most studies that examined the factors that contribute to growth in major areas are confined largely to cities and cite factors that do not include wellness. The factors most often mentioned are a city's: (i) natural resources surplus; (ii) industrialization and commercialization; (iii) development of transport and communication; (iv) economic pull; and (v) educational and recreational facilities. Other factors mentioned include a well-developed infrastructure, good quality, available human capital, and a decent ecosystem. Wellness is normally absent as a factor or is rarely mentioned. This study is different. It is focused on the role that wellness could play in the economic growth of a major area in the country. That major area is a Municipal Statistical Area (MSA) in the United States of America (USA). An MSA is not limited to a city, but may extend from one major city to several adjoining industrial areas in close proximity. Thus, this study takes a much more robust, macro-oriented approach. The research used multiple-regression modeling. It determined that there may well exist a positive relationship between the wellness of an MSA and the percent increase in business establishments in that MSA. The yearly percent increase in business establishments in an MSA was used as the response variable i.e., the business growth in an MSA. Two control variables were necessarily employed in the study to improve accuracy. The first was whether the MSA was in a Right-to-Work (RTW) state. The second was if the MSA existed in the Rust Belt (RB) area of the USA. A second research portion of this study used different statistical methods (ANOVA and MANOVA) to examine the impact of wellness on business growth and two additional explanatory variables (i.e., unemployment and annual salaries in an MSA). This analysis validated that increased MSA wellness is a driver variable that increases business growth and leads to lower unemployment and higher annual salaries in an MSA.
Economics Will the government look to the austerity years as a template for addressing the fiscal question or choose an alternative approach?' The legacy of the 2007-2008 Global Financial Crisis was a painful experience for a substantial part of the population. The reason I make this point is to demonstrate that government indebtedness isn't necessarily a constraint on economic performance although it clearly can be, as numerous studies have shown. [...]the fact that monetary policy is acting in conjunction with fiscal policy through the QE programme means one of the most obvious challenges presented by high borrowing levels, the rising cost of debt financing, is not apparent for now. Whether that changes will in part depend on one's view of the possibility of inflation re-emerging as a result of the swelling in the Bank of England's balance sheet.
Economics 'Even at the lower end of the scale, climate-related losses to global GDP could affect the very stability of the financial system' When evaluating the merits of measures to address large-scale challenges, policymakers are now increasingly mindful of the impact these plans might have on climate change. According to Munich Re, global insured losses are now running at around double the average of the past 30 years. [...]it is reasonable to assume that such losses will increase further over the coming years, posing a challenge to the very business model of insurance. To take full account of how all of this may play out in the financial system, the Bank of England will publish a climate stress test for financial institutions next year that will help to test the resilience of the largest UK banks and insurers to climate-related risks, and look into the scale of the adjustment necessary for the system to remain robust.
Environmental Justice: The Economics of Race, Place, and Pollution
Evolving Measurement for an Evolving Economy: Thoughts on 21st Century US Economic Statistics
Modeling Risk Aversion in Economics
Quantifying Economic Damages from Climate Change
Research on the Impact of Global Economic Policy Uncertainty on Manufacturing: Evidence from China, the United States, and the European Union

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