Global Banks’ Dollar Funding

Chasing the dollar: why scientists should decline tobacco industry funding.

ost tobacco researchers now know how the tobacco industry for decades operated clandestinely to obstruct and obfuscate the scientific evidence that smoking causes cancer and, later, that secondhand smoke causes disease in non-smokers. The tobacco industry's internal documents , released as a result of the US states Attorneys General lawsuits and other legal cases, provide ample evidence that is...

Geographic Diversification and Banks’ Funding Costs

We assess the impact of the geographic expansion of bank assets on the cost of banks’ interestbearing liabilities. Existing research suggests that expansion can both intensify agency problems that increase funding costs and facilitate risk diversification that decreases funding costs. Using a newly developed identification strategy, we discover that the geographic expansion of banks across U.S....

Global Review of Competitive R&D Funding

Global health funding and economic development

The impact of increased national wealth, as measured by Gross Domestic Product (GDP), on public health is widely understood, however an equally important but less well-acclaimed relationship exists between improvements in health and the growth of an economy. Communicable diseases such as HIV, TB, Malaria and the Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) are impacting many of the world's poorest and mo...

Global Funding of E-Collaboration Research

The term e-collaboration refers to collaboration among individuals involved in the execution of common tasks using electronic technologies (Kock, 2005, 2007). Therefore, e-collaboration can be seen as a broad term that refers to a range of technology-supported activities, such as those using computer-mediated communication technologies, telephone and telephone-like devices, and group support sy...