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Wednesday, February 24th 2021

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What are the challenges ahead for governments around the world?

This week’s must read

Read @Kearney: The great shakeout
Five significant trends will dramatically shape the global outlook and operating environment.

 

 

Embattled governments, Push to national self-sufficiency… this report identifies five macro trends that play an outsized role in the current and future operating environment for businesses, governments, and citizens around the world.

This Week’s Must Read is an insight piece from A.T. Kearney about trends that will shape the global outlook and operating environment.

  Paul Laudicina and Erik Peterson @A.T. Kearney

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Thought Leadership

Brattle Experts Author Article on How Pricing Algorithms Affect Competition in CPI Antitrust
The Brattle Group provides consulting services and expert testimony in economics, finance, and regulation to corporations, law firms, and governments around the world.

Pricing algorithms are computer models that suggest the optimal price given various inputs. Given their rapid adoption across a multitude of industries, what will be their impact on businesses?

Rosa M. (Romy) Abrantes-Metz and Albert Metz @ Brattle

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Managing Transfer Pricing in the COVID-Related Economic Downturn
12 May 2020 Dr. Harlow Higinbotham, Dr. Vladimir Starkov, Nihan Mert-Beydilli

Although this is not the first economic downturn, 2021 recessionary effects are still unclear. In this article, the authors examine how businesses can use their intercompany transfer pricing systems to better manage losses resulting from the coronavirus pandemic.

Dr. Harlow Higinbotham, Dr. Vladimir Starkov, Nihan Mert-Beydilli @NERA Economic Consulting

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New regulatory paradigms for the UK retail energy market | Insights & Events | Charles River Associates
CRA Insights

A price cap for retail customers results in a UK retail energy regulatory debate that has focussed on making competition more effective.
In this article, the author discusses how the existing regulatory framework might be affected by the changing relationship between energy suppliers and consumers.

Simon Ede@Charles River Associates

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The challenges of forecasting during a pandemic
The global pandemic has been a huge test for economic forecasters. An event unprecedented in modern times has precipitated a contraction in the global economy far greater than in 2008-2009, and it unfolded over the course of weeks rather than quarters.

The global pandemic has been a huge test for economic forecasters. What makes a forecast as useful as possible for clients trying to make business decisions and formulate strategies?

@Oxford Economics

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This week’s Consulting News

Chase Home Leanding expands grant program to help more customers buy homes in minority neighborhoods - Pittsburgh Business Times
New benefit available in approximately 60 census tracts in Allegheny, Beaver and Westmoreland counties.

| Patty Tascarella@Pittsburgh Business Times

Goldman Sachs sees minimal oil price impact from Texas freeze | Hellenic Shipping News Worldwide
A deep freeze in Texas that has brought power outages and shut refineries and pipelines will have only a small and transitory impact on the global oil market, Goldman Sachs said in a note. Oil prices slid by up to 2% on Friday, on worries that refineries will take time to resume operations after the…

| @HELLENIC SHIPPING NEWS Worldwide

The Legacy Senior Communities Champions Residents Despite Winter Storm Damages
/PRNewswire/ -- While many in the metroplex suffer in the wake of the latest winter storms, The Legacy Senior Communities have proven resilient. The Legacy...

| @PR newswire

Accenture selects digital ID platform Nugget for FinTech accelerator
Self-sovereign digital ID and payments platform Nuggets has been selected as part of Accenture’s FinTech Innovation Lab accelerator programme, in London.

| @Consultancy.uk

 

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The World in 2021 will start to look beyond covid-19: to the launch of an asteroid-smashing space probe, the next step in the fight against climate change and China’s supremacy at the box office. Here are five stories to watch out for.

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