Managerial Econ

econ professor explaining the difference between Senator Obama and McCain : Obama as a classic interventionist who overestimates the governm...

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.) said his policy staff and Obama's have been working together for mor...

Finding evidence that the antitrust agencies are helping the economy is notoriously difficult because the agencies challenge anticompetitive...

Advice from Nudge ( book review ), a new book summarizing research in Behavorial Economics: save more diversify your investments don’t inves...

In 2006, when CVS, the second-largest retail pharmacy, acquired Caremark, a Pharmaceutical Benefits Manufacturer (PBM), there was speculati...

Everyone's favorite economics text describes how the seemingly ridiculous prices of toner cartridges relative to printer prices is an in...

In past, we have blogged about managerial problems created when companies switch accounting standards. As US regulators debate whether to ...

I recently attended a session at the Academy of Management conference in which one of the papers presented concerned unethical behavior by c...

Alabama has given its 37,527 state employees a year to start getting fit — or they'll pay $25 a month for insurance that otherwise is fr...

If given a choice, it is not surprising that patients would choose the option that involves lower waiting time for an appointment . Four in...