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Crusaders Cullen Grace and George Bower in action during the round nine Super Rugby Aotearoa match between the Crusaders and the Blues at Orangetheory Stadium in April 2021. But as well as being “motivating and energising” for the team, home supporters could even help sway a referee on 50/50 decisions, Miles said. “Certain players report enjoying playing at home, they feel more confident, and they appreciate having that crowd support,” he said. “The Crusaders have won almost 60 per cent of all their matches, but when playing at home that number is over 80 per cent. “So even a consistently successful team like the Crusaders has greater success when playing at home.”
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IMAGE: Ben Bernanke, Mark Gertler, Nobuhiro Kiyotaki, and John Moore, winners of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Economics. view more
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The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Economics, Finance and Management category has gone in this thirteenth edition to Ben Bernanke (The Brookings Institution, Washington DC), Mark Gertler (University of New York), Nobuhiro Kiyotaki (Princeton University) and John Moore (University of Edinburgh) for fundamental contributions to our understanding of how financial market imperfections can amplify macroeconomic fluctuations and generate deep macroeconomic recessions, in the words of the award citation. In the last 15 years, says the committee, advanced economies have been hit by large macroeconomic shocks arising from the financial side. By 2008, fuelled by the liquidity glut stemming from emerging countries and by lax prudential supervision, many financial instit
What we’ve been reading: Jobs and economic transformation
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This blog is based on the November 2020 edition of the Knowledge4Jobs newsletter, curated by the World Bank’s Jobs Group and Labor and Skills Global Solutions Group. Click here to sign up for the Knowledge4Jobs newsletter.
Jobs and Economic Transformation (JET) is a special theme under the World Bank Group’s IDA19 addressing key opportunities and constraints facing lower income countries classified under IDA. But the calls for more ambition in addressing better jobs for more people resonate with people and their governments across the world. And the economic impacts of COVID-19 are raising the urgency of the agenda as growth projections fall and job losses mount. Understanding which groups of firms and workers are vulnerable, who is able to adjust, and what it will take to adapt and recover are critical issues that research can inform.
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