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BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS

The University of Warwick is known for its expertise in the area of Business and Economics, and this is reflected in the varied content featured in our category.

Whatever your interests, there is a range of accessible content from emotional prosperity and risk-taking to the future of the UK economy after the financial crisis.

You will also find links to all past Business and Economics articles as well as links to related content from other categories and themes. Content includes both video and audio.

More Sex is Safer Sex and Other Surprises

Would the world be a better place if sexually cautious people went out and got more partners? Apply economic logic to the question and you may get a result that deviates far from common sense says Professor Steven E. Landsburg at the recent Warwick Economic Summit 2012.

The Euro Crisis: Solidarity and Integration or Implosion in the Euro-zone?

As the Greek debt crisis deepens and fears spread of a domino effect among other Euro-zone countries, what's next for the beleagured euro? Associate Professor of European Politics, Dr George Christou investigates.

The Problem With Banks

Media coverage of the financial crisis has resulted in much anger and panic, but have we been guilty of viewing the situation through rose-tinted glasses? In this video and article, Dr Timothy J. Sinclair offers some observations on global finance, including the role of banks.

	The British Housing Market: Too Big To Fail? Amongst plans to boost the economy, the British government has announced an initiative to state-guarantee 95 per cent mortgages in a move to get people onto the housing ladder. PhD candidate Ben Jacoby compares such policies with the New Labour years and states that the housing market is now simply too big to fail.
	Phishing for Phools Nobel Laureate Professor George A. Akerlof, speaking at Warwick Economics Summit 2012, challenges the view that free markets are invariably right and discusses the flaws of the market that caused the Great Recession.
	Trouble in the Eurozone: Whose Crisis? The subject of the fifth annual Warwick RIPE debate was the intellectual challenge brought about by the Euro crisis. In this article, Dr Ben Richardson introduces presentations by Professor Brigitte Young (University of Muenster), Professor Magnus Ryner (Oxford Brookes University) and Dr Ben Clift (University of Warwick).
	Problems of Monetary Policy: Theory and Evidence How could economists get it so wrong in the lead up to the 2008 financial crisis? How successful was quantitative easing and where is all that elusive growth going to come from? Lord Robert Skidelsky gave his own enlightening view in the second of his two lectures at Warwick.
	Cleaning Up Corruption in Nigerian Banks When Sanusi Lamido Sanusi took over as Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria in 2009 he found not only over-exposure to the capital markets but corruption on a private-jet scale. At the Warwick Economics Summit 2012 he explained how he embarked on an anti-corruption campaign to make a paradigm shift in the sector and the country's economy as a whole.