Business News
Research: Brand-conscious consumers take bad news to heart
Published Date:August 15, 2011
Consumers with close ties to a brand respond to negative information about the beloved brand as they do to personal failure they experience it as a threat to their self-image, according to a new study by Tiffany Barnett White, a professor of business administration at Illinois.
Published Date: August 15, 2011
Stronger social safety net leads to decrease in childhood obesity
Published Date:July 21, 2011
Social safety net programs that reduce psychosocial stressors for low-income families also ultimately lead to a reduction in childhood obesity, according to research by University of Illinois economist Craig Gundersen.
Published Date: July 21, 2011
Study: Subsidizing wages at long-term care facilities would cut turnover
Published Date:July 21, 2011
Elizabeth T. Powers, a professor of economics and faculty member of the Institute of Government and Public Affairs at Illinois, says that a government-sponsored wage-subsidy program could reduce the churn of low-wage caregivers through group homes by one-third.
Published Date: July 21, 2011
Fluctuations in gas prices not all that unusual, expert says
Published Date:March 31, 2011
Don Fullerton, a finance professor and former deputy assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury Department, says the real, inflation-adjusted price of a gallon of gas has barely budged over the past five decades.
Published Date: March 31, 2011
Leadership needed for Illinois pension reform, expert says
Published Date:March 17, 2011
The state of Illinois needs to get serious and create a fiscally sustainable pension-reform plan, warns University of Illinois finance professor Jeffrey R. Brown.
Published Date: March 17, 2011
