Policy & the Economy
January 1, 2012
Just What the Market Ordered
How malpractice lawsuits punish negligent doctors
David Dranove, Subramaniam Ramanarayanan and Yasutora Watanabe
December 1, 2011
Paying a Premium on Your Premium
Effects of consolidation in the health insurance industry
Leemore S. Dafny, Mark Duggan and Subramaniam Ramanarayanan
December 1, 2011
Selling with Selective Disclosure
Why salespeople reveal some—but not all—unflattering information
Wioletta Dziuda
October 1, 2011
Concrete Collusion
Economic data reveals little competition in Brazil’s cement industry
Alberto Salvo
October 1, 2011
When Memory Serves
Customers better remember low prices
Yuxin Chen, Ganesh Iyer and Amit Pazgal
August 1, 2011
Riding the High Income Wave
High earners ride higher, but rougher, economic waves
Jonathan A. Parker and Annette Vissing-Jørgensen
August 1, 2011
Adding Friction to the Market
In employment, making hiring and firing easier is not always the way to go
Niko Matouschek, Paolo Ramezzana and Frédéric Robert-Nicoud
July 5, 2011
Where Busy Bees and Business Converge
The striking similarities between ecological and organizational networks
Serguei Saavedra, Brian Uzzi and Felix Reed-Tsochas
July 5, 2011
Today’s Rising One-percenters
The growing gap between the very rich and everyone
Steven Kaplan and Joshua Rauh
July 5, 2011
An Unhealthy Market for Competition
Health insurance companies in the U.S., not consumers, control the market
Leemore S. Dafny
June 1, 2011
Abundant Resources, Yet Little Freedom
Why dictators of resource-rich countries muzzle the press
Georgy Egorov, Sergei Guriev and Konstantin Sonin
June 1, 2011
Remaining the Market Leader
The role of learning-by-doing and organizational forgetting
David A. Besanko, Ulrich Doraszelski, Yaroslav Kryukov and Mark Satterthwaite
May 1, 2011
Firming Up the Foundations of Game Theory
Elucidating the role of information in strategic interactions
Olivier Gossner, Ehud Kalai and Robert Weber
April 6, 2011
Ballooning Budgets
Why federal budgets grow, but rarely shrink
Daniel Diermeier and Pohan Fong
February 2, 2011
Expert or Charlatan?
A test to tell the difference between authentic experts and flimflam artists
Nabil Al-Najjar, Alvaro Sandroni, Rann Smorodinsky and Jonathan Weinstein
January 1, 2011
Increasing Revenue from Online Auctions
Buyer-seller interactions affect customer value in two-sided markets
Song Yao and Carl F. Mela
January 1, 2011
Is Democracy Good for Peace?
Limited democracies and weak dictators may escalate conflicts
Sandeep Baliga, David O. Lucca and Tomas Sjöström
December 1, 2010
Matriculation Matters
Refining the college admissions guessing game
Peter Nurnberg, Morton Schapiro and David Zimmerman
December 1, 2010
Principal Performance
What if school principals’ pay were tied to job performance? Turns out, it already is
Julie Berry Cullen and Michael J. Mazzeo
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