In recent years, the financial sector has been a leader in digital transformation. An additional driver of its accelerated digitalization was COVID-19 pandemic, which contributed to active spread mobile banking, contactless payments, services for managing investment portfolios, etc. The largest banks and insurance companies play leading role services. New fintech have emerged both within large ...

BACKGROUND Ethnicity and socio-economic position are important determinants of colorectal cancer (CRC) mortality. In this paper, we determine trends in colorectal cancer mortality by ethnicity and socio-economic position in New Zealand. METHODS Cohort studies of the entire New Zealand population for 1981-84, 1986-89, 1991-94 and 1996-99 (linking Census and mortality datasets) allowed direct d...

Good afternoon. I am pleased to participate in the Cleveland Clinic’s “Ideas for Tomorrow” series. My public remarks often concern short-run economic developments, but it is important once in a while to place those shorter-term developments in the context of the powerful longterm trends shaping the global economy. Of these trends, surely one of the most important is the rapid and sustained econ...

Economic downturns and recession lead to budget cuts and service reductions in the healthcare sector which often precipitate layoffs and hiring freezes. Nurses, being the largest professional group in healthcare, are strongly affected by cost reductions. Economic downturns destabilize the nursing labour market with potential negative outcomes, including serious shortages, extending beyond the r...

We conduct an analysis of recent trends on the subfields of study that doctoral students in economics choose for their dissertations. By investigating data on the JEL classification codes of dissertations reported by the Journal of Economic Literature from 1991 to 2007, we find that the trends in the subfields of study of doctoral dissertations follow those of articles published at five major g...