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Atrocities, murders, and untouchability: Measuring caste-based discrimination

How can we best measure inter-caste tension and discrimination in India? In this post, Victoire Girard highlights the limitations of using statistics compiled under the Prevention of Atrocities Act, which was implemented in 1989 to combat caste-based discrimination. She documents that reported murders of lower castes, or even averaged responses regarding untouchability in household surveys, appear to provide more consistent proxies of inter-group tensions across states.

Leadership & People

A Caminho de Belém ¬ Road to Belem

Nova Debate recognizes the importance of an informed choice, so we challenged all the seven candidates to the Portuguese presidential elections to be subject to an interview aimed at the youth and conducted by our members. The results? Seven meaningful conversations that makes us understand who the candidates are and what they stand for.

The Rise of Crowd Funding to Small Business: Dynamic Impacts on Local Credit, Labor Markets, and Investments

Emanuele Rizzo, from the Nova SBE Finance Knowledge Center, was granted the Lamfalussy Research Fellowship from the European Central Bank with a research project aiming to assess the impacts of crowdfunding to small businesses on local credit, labor markets and investments.

Leadership & People

Do Diverse Political Views Increase Team Performance Value?

The study from Nova SBE Finance Knowledge Center compares the performance of politically diverse teams and politically homogenous groups in the asset management industry.

How Do Firms Respond To Demand Shocks?

The study from Nova SBE Finance Knowledge Center examines the response of firms to domestic demand shocks based on the large and unanticipated shock to government spending in European periphery countries during the 2010-2011 sovereign debt crisis.

Which Entrepreneurs are Financially Constrainted?

The study from Nova SBE Finance Knowledge Center investigates the financial constraints faced by different types of entrepreneurs.

Summer School in "Spatial Analysis, Land Use and the Environment" in Lima, Peru

Summer School in “Spatial Analysis, Land Use and the Environment”, a partnership between Nova Environmental Economics Knowledge Center and Universidad del Pacífico in Lima, Peru, took place in January 2020.

VALPRAD

VALPRAD, a research project of Nova SBE Environmental Economics Knowledge Center, aims to investigate the ecological importance and estimate the economic value provided by seagrass meadows in the Sado Estuary for conservation purposes.

Evaluation of the social and environmental impacts of the production of biodiesel from recycling waste cooking oils

Nova SBE Environmental Economics Knowledge Center research project aims to evaluate the production of biodiesel from recycling waste cooking oils and assess its environmental and social impacts.

ASEBIO - Assessment of the Ecosystem Services, Biodiversity and Well-being in Portugal

ASEBIO aims to quantify the impacts on Ecosystem services (ES) and trade-offs considering different policy scenarios affecting land cover change (LCC) for 2040. The project will provide a better understanding on the impact of LCC on ES, biodiversity and human well-being.

BCG Case Challenge

The BCG Case Challenge is a consulting project designed by BCG to solve a specific NGO's problem, in which Nova SBE students work alongside BCG and the clients' teams to develop concepts, analyses, and recommendations. In 2019/20, the chosen organization was Teach for Portugal. Here you will find different testimonials on what it meant to participate in the Challenge, from different stakeholders' perspectives.

OPTIMUS PRIME – Optimal Greening of Irrigated Farmland to Achieve a Prime Environment

OPTIMUS PRIME aims to investigate the ecological benefits provided by the ecological focus areas of farmland areas, in order to provide guidelines aiming to increment benefits to ecosystem services and farmland producers.

Land Use Change in the Urban-Rural-Forest Interface

Nova SBE Environmental Economics Knowledge Center research project aims to model private agents’ decisions about whether and when to convert their lands either to reversible or irreversible uses for policy purposes.

The Ocean Economy in Portugal: An Investors’ Guide

Nova SBE Environmental Economics Knowledge Center developed a guide to provide potential investors with the most relevant up-to-date information on both established and emergent sectors that compose the blue economy in Portugal.

New Intensive Training in Data Science, with Le Wagon

Nova SBE has launched its Data Science Bootcamp, an intensive training in Python for Data Science and advanced Machine Learning, in partnership with the world-leading coding bootcamp Le Wagon.

Identifying Crowdfunding Success Factors for Social Projects

Nova SBE Data Science Knowledge Center developed a predictive model that estimates the likelihood of a crowdfunding campaign reaching its goal.

Two sides of the aid debate and the way forward

In 2019, the developed world sent almost 156 billion dollars on foreign aid to developing countries. However, the debate around aid is fierce. For some this is not enough to ignite development, for others it is a poison trapping these countries in poverty. What is the way forward?

Introducing the Nova Sustainable Way of Life: exclusive interview with Thomas Morgensten

Thomas Morgenstern, Vice president for Governmental Affairs Europe & Central Asia of TOMRA group, tell us about their ambition to be among the leaders of the resource revolution, which aims to replace the present system based on consumption and waste instead of the recovery of resources. Hear all about the reverse vending and smart solutions for a better tomorrow!

Leadership & People

The effects of overconfidence in job market signaling — an experimental approach

Education can work as a signal that workers send to employers to indicate their productivity. Since a worker’s productivity can only be observed after the employer has already hired him, they must rely on signs to predict which salary will be the most appropriate for a worker.

Digital & Technology

A Case Study on Reskilling into Tech

While companies increasingly see retraining and "upskilling" existing workers as an urgent business priority, many are still hesitant to make the required investment in their workforce. Is it possible to reskill non-technical professionals into tech?

India: the biggest lockdown in the world

The COVID 19 pandemic stopped the world. Most of the globe entered in quarantine to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, some with great success, others not so much. Now, we witness the consequences of the pandemic in one of the most populated countries in the world: India.

Corona, an Economic Virus

As it is noticeable, we have just entered a downturn cycle in the economy. The uncertainty on the markets, the general panic, sudden decrease in consumption,production, and investment are primary presages of dark economic times, and it is up to all of us to prepare for the upcoming storm. The next months won’t be easy, and irreversible economic losses have already contributed to an impending feasible collapse in the global economy.

The vaccines, a science anthem and a pandemic of hope

Full Professor (Adjunct) Pedro Oliveira, founder of the award winning Patient Innovation, writes in Eco about how Covid-19 vaccine research and development process is an anthem to science, public investment and cross-collaboration.

Leadership & People

Economy of Francesco (EoF)

The Economy of Francesco (EoF) is a global gathering of economists, researchers in economic models and change makers designed to present the world with distinct ways of thinking about the foundations and impact of current economic models

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