Policy & the Economy
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
August 1, 2011
The Financial Reporting Fast Lane
Unexpected reactions to real-time reporting
Ronald A. Dye
August 1, 2011
Riding the High Income Wave
High earners ride higher, but rougher, economic waves
Jonathan A. Parker and Annette Vissing-Jørgensen
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
Developing Stock Exchanges In Developing Countries
The impetus for a new stock exchange can determine its fate
Klaus Weber, Gerald F. Davis and Michael Lounsbury
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
Driving Biofuel Adoption
Brazil’s consumers offer a peek at attitudes towards alt-fuels
Alberto Salvo and Cristian Huse
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
April 1, 2011
Debt Markets During the Crisis
Failure to see the big picture led to a breakdown
Arvind Krishnamurthy
April 1, 2011
A Potentially Fatal Illness, An Unpredictable Vaccine
Yearly flu vaccine notable for uncertainty in both supply and demand
Kenan Arifoğlu, Sarang Deo and Seyed Iravani
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
February 2, 2011
Do Anti-drinking Ads Work?
Guilt-inducing public service announcements can backfire
Nidhi Agrawal and Adam Duhachek
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
Preventing Crime Waves
Why harsh punishments for all offenses may exacerbate crime
Philip Bond and Kathleen Hagerty
January 1, 2011
Is Democracy Good for Peace?
Limited democracies and weak dictators may escalate conflicts
Sandeep Baliga, David O. Lucca and Tomas Sjöström
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