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The 2026 AEJ Best Paper Awards have been announced. The papers selected are highlighted below. Do Carbon Offsets Offset Carbon? — AEJ: Applied Economics Raphael Calel, Jonathan Colmer, Antoine Dechezleprêtre, and Matthieu Glachant study India’s wind farms under the Clean Development Mechanism, the world’s largest carbon offset program. The program allows polluters to increase emissions by subsidizing equivalent reductions elsewhere. However, the authors find that at least 52 percent of approved offsets went to projects that would have been built regardless of the subsidy, enabling as much as 28 million additional tonnes of CO₂ emissions. Extrapolated globally, carbon offset programs…

With Bitcoin perking up, some cryptocurrency and altcoin investors may embrace the familiar. That’s a practical way of approaching this asset class and there’s nothing wrong with that perspective per se, but it risks missing out on opportunities with altcoins. Indeed, Bitcoin dominance often signals that crypto market participants, broadly speaking, are taking their eyes of altcoins. However, that scenario can be an invitation to get involved with some smaller digital currencies. That objective is easy to accomplish with the help of the (DIME). DIME, which debuted last October, is potentially appealing to intrepid cryptocurrency investors for multiple reasons, including…

STAMFORD, Conn., April 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Harbor Point Equipment Finance (“Harbor Point”), an affiliate of AIP Capital, is an equipment finance platform specialized in providing capital to the equipment finance industry across a variety of asset types, is pleased to announce the acquisition of a seasoned loan portfolio secured by a pool of commercial transportation assets. The portfolio consisted of approximately 800 individual contracts and is valued at approximately $17 million. “This acquisition demonstrates Harbor Point’s ability to be a flexible solutions provider for a seller of assets within a tight timeframe”, says Gary Silverhardt, CEO of Harbor Point.…

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A small group of collections has moved beyond crypto-native speculation and into consumer-facing brands. Pudgy Penguins has continued to present itself as a broader IP business, with recent CoinDesk Research describing more than $13 million in retail sales and over 2 million units sold, while Doodles now frames itself less as a pure collection and more as a creative platform built around content, AI, and brand expansion. Indeed, the NFT sector has become more selective, with utility-led and gaming-linked activity holding up better than the broad speculative frenzy that defined the earlier cycle. While a handful of projects are trying…

An overview The Italian economy has progressed from being one of the weakest economies in Europe following World War II to being one of the most powerful. Its strengths are its metallurgical and engineering industries, and its weaknesses are a lack of raw materials and energy sources. More than four-fifths of Italy’s energy requirements are imported. Nonetheless, the chemical sector also flourishes, and textiles constitute one of Italy’s largest industries. A strong entrepreneurial bias, combined with liberal trade policies following the war, enabled manufacturing exports to expand at a phenomenal rate, but a cumbersome bureaucracy and insufficient planning hindered an…

Findings from the annual MFS Defined Contribution Plan Sponsor Survey show that plan sponsors’ confidence in their participants being able to retire when they want has increased dramatically year-over-year. One-third of sponsors are now very or extremely confident in their participants’ ability to retire at their target age, up from just 18% one year prior. The result: a score of “B” on MFS’ proprietary Workplace Retirement Readiness Indicator. The survey, which captures insights from 153 plan sponsors representing over $400 billion in plan assets and nearly one million participants, also identified key trends regarding personalized advice, the demand for alternative…

February 27-28, four Elon students presented their research at a national economics conference in New York City. Share: Share this page on Facebook Share this page on X (formerly Twitter) Share this page on LinkedIn Email this page to a friend Print this page Four Elon University students presented their research at a national conference in New York City on Feb. 27–28, gaining hands-on experience in academic research and professional networking. They presented research on sporting mega events, private equity in healthcare, declining labor rates of young men and survival rate in proximity to mining. The conference, sponsored by Issues…

Despite near-term headwinds for gold—including high yields, dollar strength, and profit-taking—structural factors remain, maintaining the yellow metal’s long-term upward trajectory above $5,000 per ounce, according to Emily Avioli, vice president and investment strategist at Merrill Lynch.In Avioli’s latest Capital Market Outlook for the investment giant, he noted an unexpected trend: despite rising inflation and investor concern over the Iran war, gold has not performed as anticipated.“Instead, the yellow metal’s luster has faded, with the price tumbling by roughly -16.0% since the Middle East conflict began,” she noted. Gold defies geopolitical hedge roleGold has moved largely in tandem with risk assets over…

Why Crypto Investors Focus on Utility Coins Before 2027The question is no longer just “what will move next?” but rather “what will still be growing and providing value two years from now?” In April 2026, this forward-looking perspective is driving capital away from assets that rely on fleeting social trends and toward those that function as essential infrastructure for the decentralized economy.This change in mindset marks a transition from a speculative era to one defined by technical durability and sustainable protocol revenue.Why Utility Is Central to Strategic PositioningUtility-driven protocols create environments where capital is used continuously, rather than sitting dormant…