(Outlet: The Cool Down) The baseline estimate of the burden is 131% of a firm’s total equity value. A paper from the University of Pennsylvania has outlined how one surprising factor could be reducing the value of various firms, and getting a handle on the issue would be a smart move for shareholders, employees, and customers. …Read More
(Outlet: Reuters) The scale of losses anticipated in the wildfires now ringing Los Angeles, as well as regulatory changes enacted late last year, could spell an end to relatively cheap homeowners’ insurance in areas like the Palisades that are at elevated risk for wildfires, four analysts told Reuters.…Read More
(Outlet: Marketplace) Benjamin Keys, a professor of real estate and finance at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, joined “Marketplace” host Amy Scott to talk about the California insurance market and what the payout might look like once claims come in. …Read More
(Outlet: News9 Live) While there’s no doubt that the flawed H1B visa programme needs reform, to assume that tightening it will automatically create or protect high-tech jobs in the US is wrong. Here’s why.…Read More
(Outlet: MSNBC) The right-wing debate over H-1B visas has shined a spotlight on the high-skill visa program. Zeke Hernandez says despite some limitations for visa holders, the program creates jobs for Americans and helps grow the economy.…Read More
(Outlet: Penn Medicine News) The startups receiving the latest investments from the Fund for Health seek to address workplace burnout and racial inequity in maternal care.…Read More
(Outlet: The Guardian) ‘Tight correlation’ between premium rises and counties deemed most at risk from climate crisis, experts say.…Read More
We are proud to announce that Kenneth Chung, Postdoctoral Research Associate at the ESG Initiative, has received Ripple’s 2024 University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI) Visionary award. This award recognizes outstanding achievement in blockchain academia.…Read More
Cherokee economist Rebecca Adamson has partnered with Wharton’s ESG Initiative to support research on the social costs of development on or near indigenous land. She said stakeholders need truthful, accurate information as native populations across the globe are under increasing pressure from development.…Read More
(Outlet: CFO.com) CFOs who embrace a geostrategy will have more confidence to guide their companies to success, write Courtney Rickert McCaffrey, EY Global geostrategy insights leader and director of business and CXO insights at Ernst & Young; Oliver Jones, EY Global SaT markets, sustainability and geostrategy leader at Ernst & Young; and Witold J. Henisz, vice dean and faculty director of ESG Initiative at The Wharton School.…Read More
