Hindustan Times
This week, I review two papers that examine financial literacy. Globally, when the idea gained momentum in late-1990s, it seemed a logical progression of taking finance from the institutions to the people. It was supposed to help investors take rational decisions. A decade later, the impact of financial literacy in achieving financial well being is divided — and so are the scholars.
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Loading ...Posted by Gautam Chikermane on Sunday, November 29, 2009 at 7:41 pm
Filed under Research · Tagged emerging markets, financial literacy, policymakers, portfolio choice, risk diversification, stock and bond prices, stock market
Due to a sudden explosion of news and analytical developments around me, I was unable to study and get under any single paper. I am, therefore, presenting a reading list of papers I planned to read. Maybe, one of you could send me a critique. Read more
(3 votes, average: 4.33 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Gautam Chikermane on Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 9:04 pm
Filed under Research · Tagged Andrew Smith, Conflicts of Interest and Nonprofit Governance: The Challenge of Groupthink, critique, Frauke Mattison Thompson, Geoffrey P Miller, Gerald Rosenfeld, German Law Journal, Harry W Arthurs, Heidi Winklhofer, Intellectual Hazard: How Conceptual Biases in Complex Organisations Contributed to the Crisis of 2008, Law and Learning in an Era of Globalisation, papers, Towards a Privacy Framework
It began in September 2001. It’s eight years since. But has the US-driven “global war on terrorism” made the world a safer place? The US aside, the short answer that anyone reading newspapers or watching news channels the world over knows is: No. Ask the afflicted — count the deaths in Mumbai, Madrid, London, Bali, Sinai, Amman… Read more
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Gautam Chikermane on Sunday, November 15, 2009 at 7:31 pm
Filed under Research · Tagged Amman, and Violent: The New Economics of Terrorism, Bali, economist, Eli Berman, Hamas, Hezbollah, London, Madrid, Mumbai, Muqtada al-Sadr, Radical, religious, September 2001, Sinai, study, Taliban, terrorist
I wrote a rather long piece on the Irish economy last week. Titled Desperate in Dublin, it looked at the impact of the global slowdown, banker-builder greed and opportunistic politicians through the eyes of data as well as people. Today, I want to show you the beautiful people of Ireland — strikers, musicians, beggars. And the future of this country — its young. Read more
(6 votes, average: 4.67 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Gautam Chikermane on Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 10:47 pm
Filed under Research · Tagged Dublin, irish economy, market, Recession
Browsing through the various shops of life that the sculpted modern civilisation presents every day — school, work, conference, columns, stories, managing, meeting and so on — finding peace has become elusive.
So elusive, in fact, that the business of providing it through books, CDs and other mediums run by self-appointed gurus has become a full fledged multi-billion-dollar industry. Read more
(1 votes, average: 3 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Gautam Chikermane on Sunday, November 1, 2009 at 7:19 pm
Filed under Research · Tagged Dublin, Europe, globalisation, Hindustan Times Leadership Summit, modern civilisation, Rajiv Bajaj, travel, Zurich airport
