Managerial Econ

Economic Analysis of Business Practice

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Physician Induced Demand

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Are physicians willing to perform more invasive procedures if there are financial incentives to do so? A physician usually is better informe...
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Monday, July 29, 2013

Will Auto Black Boxes Reduce Insurance Costs?

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The NY Times reports that new cars are now routinely being equipped with "Event Data Recorders" (EDRs) that can be refereed to af...
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Thursday, July 25, 2013

Inequality is good?

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So says the Economist , at least when it comes to fostering entrepreneurship.  Rather than promoting particular types of industries or clust...
Tuesday, July 23, 2013

TW/CBS Negotiations

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Time-Warner and CBS are in the middle of a nasty negotiation dispute over how of a fee Time-Warner should pay to carry CBS programming. This...
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Monday, July 22, 2013

Microsoft Restructuring

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Microsoft has had a number of semi-autonomous divisions but wants to re-organize to benefit from a more centrally organized decision making...
Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Prices and R&D

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According to the news observer.com , Tesla Motors appears to be doing well. Its stock price is up 500% in three years and it is building ele...
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Sunday, June 30, 2013

And the Band Played On

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Understanding how changes in an industry lead to changes firm profitability, and hence strategy, is often difficult to detect. Even when dra...
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Sunday, June 23, 2013

Even Entry at the Bottom Affects Incumbants at the Top

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A new paper by Bhaskarabhatla and Chatterjee, " How Do Incumbents Respond to Bottom-of-the-Pyramid Firm Entry? ," examines what ha...
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Wednesday, June 19, 2013

How Steve Jobs bargained with Harper Collins

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A side benefit of the antitrust trial is that the negotiations between publishers and Apple are now being made public .  It illustrates what...
Monday, June 17, 2013

Missed Pricing Opportunity in Barcelona

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I am lucky enough to be traveling in Barcelona now (ostensibly for work). When we looked into taking the cable car to the top of Montjuic, ...
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