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SK Hynix Inc. signage at the company’s office in Seongnam, South Korea, on Tuesday, June 30, 2026. SeongJoon Cho | Bloomberg | Getty Images SK Hynix led a broad rally in Asian technology shares on Wednesday, tracking a rebound in U.S. semiconductor names after a sharp sell-off earlier this week. The South Korean memory chipmaker…

Lecture by Piero Cipollone, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, at the Annual Meeting of the Federation of Italian Cooperative Credit Banks (Federcasse) Rome, 17 July 2026 Long ago, Aristotle himself noted[1] how money played an essential role in society as an instrument that made it possible to establish a relationship between all…

The authors would like to thank Grant Kovel for providing excellent research assistance and seminar participants at the BU-Harvard-MIT Health Economics seminar, the Highland Health Economics Symposium, the Murphy Institute Health Policy Working Group seminar, Fiona Scott Morton, David Bradford, Liran Einav, Luca Maini, Mark Shepard, Anirban Basu, Bob Rebitzer and Jim Rebitzer, and Rebekah…

Alphabet (GOOG +0.24%) (GOOGL +0.58%) delivered a solid second-quarter earnings report on Wednesday. Cloud revenue was up by 82% year over year, and the Gemini app reached 950 million monthly active users. Some investors were spooked when Google’s parent company raised its capital expenditures guidance, implying that it will spend up to $205 billion this…

Kelsey Moran and Gail Rosenbaum are co-primary authors on this work. This research was supported by the NBER Roybal Center for Behavior Change in Health (NIA P30 AG034532). We thank Dr. John Pellegrino who suggested the lottery incentive idea. We also thank Katy Milkman, Richard Thaler, and seminar participants at MIT Sloan, Harvard Kennedy School,…

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