Managerial Econ

Economic Analysis of Business Practice

Monday, January 26, 2015

Et tu Uber?

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Uber betrays the very principles that made it so successful by capping pricing during the blizzard .  When these price ceilings create shor...
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Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Declining Demand for Labor

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Who needs a cameraman to do local news anymore? Here is a reporter using a selfie pole to become her own camera operator. As the opport...
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Bargaining for a Happy Spouse

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Leora Frieberg and Steven Stern have a new paper on intra-household bargaining titled, "Marriage, Divorce, and Asymmetric Information....
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Monday, January 19, 2015

Lower fuel prices help air travel industry

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Falling fuel prices are idling oil exploration rigs, encouraging consumers to buy bigger cars, and helping the aviation industry : Fallin...
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Sunday, January 18, 2015

Swiss banks face foreign exchange risk

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I nteresting article that draws the analogy between a strong member of the EU exiting the monetary union, like Finland or Germany, and the ...
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Friday, January 16, 2015

This is what they mean by "foreign exchange risk."

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Swatch was hurt by the Swiss franc appreciation, but  strangely, so were others : Swatch:  Citigroup estimates that about 85 per cent of ...
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Thursday, January 15, 2015

Swiss franc appreciates agains the Euro

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The Swiss Central Bank had been "pegging" the price of the Swiss franc to the euro, to make sure that Swiss exports were not ...
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Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Apologies to the Venezuelan Bishops

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In past posts , we have blogged about how ignorant our clergy is about wealth, poverty, and policy.  But after the Venezuelan Bishops came o...
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Monday, January 12, 2015

Effects of disability payments

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An interesting story is developing around a West Point professor and disabled vet on the perverse incentives created by our efforts to help...
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Monday, January 5, 2015

What makes us happy?

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Vanderbilt's Ted Fisher has the answer:
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