Plus: Food delivery apps and traffic collisions; COVID-19 treatments — new or old; what does voluntary disclosure say about overall greenhouse gas emissions?
Banks close neighborhood outlets and raise prices for branch-delivered services
Uncertainty about outside news alters company disclosures and how markets interpret them, study finds
Plus: home buyers after they collect big equity gains, math and gender, and who votes
A 2017 study on workplace injuries spurs more research on perils of corporate short-termism
Round-number bids, tailoring primary care incentives to the health of a state population, and one benefit of industry incumbency
What your genome says about college completion, and how likely a crash is after a credit boom
VCs and other investors need a contract with their seeker that blunts conflicts of interest
The true meaning of a bailout, how pay transparency works and whether to take that meeting or not
Trustworthy and dominant-seeming men: access to corporate management. Dominant-seeming women: not so much.
Price movements can be more extreme
Loans that include a sweetener or penalty tied to ESG performance seem to induce more honest reporting
Alibaba warehouse workers, signs of innovation, and how gender of Brazilian mayors played out in COVID-19
Less attention to downside of nation’s carbon-neutral goals
How to spot fake online reviews and the relationship between herding cultures and violence
R&D outlays and patents alone don’t effectively measure corporate creativity