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Protecting cancer survivors across Europe from financial discrimination: The right to be forgotten

Mark Lawler and Françoise Meunier highlight the financial discrimination that many cancer survivors face despite being cured of their disease and propose a data-informed legal solution so that cancer patients are not punished for a previous cancer diagnosis.
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Delegation of financial decision-making to spouse in old age

Professor Anup Basu from Queensland University of Technology explains the process of delegating financial decision-making to spouses in old age.
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Decoding the patterns of spiderweb capitalism

Dr Kimberly Kay Hoang, the Director of Global Studies at the University of Chicago’s Department of Sociology, reflects on ‘spiderweb capitalism’ and her efforts to unravel opaque financial networks worldwide.
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Welfare economics: Promoting equality through general policies

Yew-Kwang Ng, Emeritus Professor at the Department of Economics, Monash University, continues a discussion about welfare economics, focusing on efficiency supremacy in specific areas, arguing that equality should be promoted through general policies.
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An economic analysis of social welfare

Yew-Kwang Ng, Emeritus Professor at the Department of Economics, Monash University, evaluates social welfare from an economic angle.
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Pursuing responsible finance in a world of rising risks

Marc Brightman and James Christopher Mizes, from the University of Bologna, explore the importance of responsible finance in a world of rising risks.
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Using lotteries instead of auctioning is both inefficient and inequality-creating

Yew-Kwang Ng, Emeritus Professor in the Department of Economics at Monash University, compares the use of the lottery and auctioning to allocate scarce goods.
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Towards generalised pairs trading strategies through AI

Here, we learn about Professor Chien-Feng Huang’s interdisciplinary research at the National University of Kaohsiung in Taiwan, concerning the move towards generalised pairs trading strategies through artificial intelligence.
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A case for higher spending on public goods

Yew-Kwang Ng, Emeritus Professor in the Department of Economics at Monash University in Australia, argues in favor of increased spending on public goods.
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Climate leadership now: Climate finance & political will

Richard Beardsworth, Professor of International Relations and Head of School from POLIS, University of Leeds, unpacks the present challenge of climate leadership: climate finance and political will.

Demographic pressures on the Egyptian labour market

Ragui Assaad, Professor from Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota, explores the upcoming resumption of demographic pressures on the Egyptian labour market and what can be done about it.
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Credit and collateral: How central banks can spur a greening of finance

With calculations suggesting that the financial system is effectively funding temperature increases of over three degrees centigrade, how can central banks promote the greening of finance?
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Regional packaged care in Japan contributes to reductions in medical costs

Professor Hiroki Konno at Nihon University says medical costs for thyroid cancer treatment will also be reduced within this system In Japan, the increasing national...

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