Managerial Econ

  Boeing and its roughly 17,000 engineers and technical workers represented by the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospac...

WSJ : “Iran insiders are rumbling about the looming economic catastrophe if Washington does not grant sanctions relief that would unlock p...

In bargaining, it’s not the arguments that matter most. It’s the alternatives. Whoever can live more comfortably without a deal usually wins...

A new paper by Alvarez-Blaser et al analyzes how wholesale and retail prices respond to changes in costs for 2,000 household products from ...

How much bargaining power did the two sides have in the recent dock workers' strike?  For shippers, what is the cost of a one day delay ...

There is a nice podcast on " Store-Brand Products " over at the "Economics of Everyday Things." It touches on many manag...

When the US government buys drugs, they penalize drug companies with  huge taxes  if they don't reach agreement.  From  Marginal Revolut...

  Dear Editor: Though I liked your article about   negotiating drug prices , the sentence, “The system is packed with opaque middlemen such ...

The Economist reports: ...[Pay Transparency law] shrank the gender pay gap by 13%, but only because it curbed the wages of male employees....

Dru Riley's 100 Rules 5.  “Use models.”  — Don’t recreate the wheel. Learn from others and save time.   12.  “Set goals. And work backwa...

 The Australian govt. passed a law requiring Facebook and Google to start paying for news content that appeared on their sites. However, the...

And I bet he got $300.

The future of Illinois looks bleak as they are deep in debt, and piling up more debt every day: HT:  MarginalRevolution/Stuart Loren

  HT: Bob Laws

Colleague Larry van Horn's efforts to require negotiated prices between payers (insurance companies) and healthcare providers (doctors, ...

  https://freakonomics.com/podcast/reasons-to-be-cheerful-rebroadcast/ Good but long podcast.  This caught my eye: BAUMEISTER: …And incident...

 Pretty good teaching implementation of a repeated prisoners' dilemma .  Very close to co-author Mike Shor's implementation of the s...

Door Dash drivers are trying to beat the algorithm . When a specific meal needs to be delivered, Door Dash's algorithm will post the gig...

  Washing Post Opinion piece : Most recently, Uber and Lyft, based in San Francisco, announced they would close their California operation...

Jack Stubbs has an interesting Twitter thread on negotiations after a ransomware attack. It was also picked up by Reuters . Its seemed very...