The Analysis and Research Team has been around for a little over two years. During that time, we have focused on our core objective of providing analysis of issues which cut across traditional sectoral policy areas, and which look ahead to the medium to long-term. The invasion by Russia of...

The Analysis and Research Team has been around for a little over two years. During that time, we have focused on our core objective of providing analysis of issues which cut across traditional sectoral policy areas, and which look ahead to the medium to long-term. The invasion by Russia of...

In 2014, a journalist, Tobore Ovuorie published an article on human trafficking in The Premium Time, an online newspaper in Nigeria. In 2019, a movie, Òlòtūré, was produced by Ebonylife, which is an adaptation of Tobore's article after permission had been granted by The Premium Times. Under...

Extensive studies have revealed that newsvendor decisions by human decision-makers are often biased by cognitive limitations, and, therefore, fail to achieve optimal profits prescribed by normative models. These biases are typically considered liabilities in individual inventory decision-making,...

We propose a method to overlay the tone of commodity-specific newswires upon the commodity characteristics traditionally used in long-short portfolio allocations. Implementing the tone-overlay strategy on 26 commodities generates substantial risk-adjusted profitability gains relative to the...

We propose a method to overlay the tone of commodity-specific newswires upon the commodity characteristics traditionally used in long-short portfolio allocations. Implementing the tone-overlay strategy on 26 commodities generates substantial risk-adjusted profitability gains relative to the...