Figure 3 shows the economics of comparable ferries powered by diesel, electric batteries and a combination of the two (hybrid). Although it costs 40 percent less to purchase diesel ferries than ...

This makes China’s labour market less efficient, argue Tianlei Huang and Yiwen Zhang of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, an American think-tank. Firms are arbitrarily ...

WASHINGTON, March 27 (Reuters) - The U.S. Congressional Budget Office on Thursday projected significant increases in federal budget deficits and debt over the next 30 years, in part due to rapidly ...

That women earn less than men in rich countries is so well-known it is often met with a shrug. The gender wage gap is one of ten indicators in our annual “glass-ceiling index”, ranking how ...

America is feeling uneasy about the Trump administration’s rapid-fire trade policy changes, but Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Friday he’s not worried. “Despite elevated levels of ...

Over the past two years, the notion that the U.S. economy and its stock market was outperforming the rest of the advanced world gained salience and came to be widely interpreted as a new form of ...

President Donald Trump says his administration is making “very big” moves and has acknowledged there’s likely a “period of transition” or “disturbance” that could result. When asked ...

The Department of Economics takes a mathematical approach to analyzing social issues and pressing problems. It emphasizes quantitative analysis, computing, and communication skills, as well as ...

This study quantifies and values the carbon stored in the ocean due to biological processes. With uptake in the order of 2.8 Gt per year, valued at around US$1 trillion annually (at a carbon ...

A sell-off in the US stock market gathered steam on Monday, fuelled by rising concern about the cost of the trade war to the world's largest economy. The S&P 500, which tracks the biggest American ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. This article is part of the Financial Times free schools access programme. Details/registration here ...

finance and real estate economics. You will learn how to use different techniques to value property and how those valuations, financial leverage, and portfolio considerations are used to make real ...