Managerial Econ

Economic Analysis of Business Practice

Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Advertising Elasticities

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The US is somewhat unique in that we allow pharmaceutical ads to target consumers, albeit with plenty of FDA scrutiny. Is it doing any good?...
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Friday, March 27, 2015

Update: zero-based budgeting in the government?

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All the apparent success of zero-based budgeting in the private sector raises the obvious question, " why not use it for the government...
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Thursday, March 26, 2015

How do you create demand for your consulting tools?

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Threaten to take over companies that fail to use them. If a company is poorly run, or is not minimizing costs, it creates an opportunity f...
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Thursday, March 19, 2015

Make the rules or your rivals will: Germany bans Uber

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When formulating a business plan, you have to pay attention to the regulatory environment.  Otherwise, your rivals can accomplish through re...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Power tool importer prevents free-riding with RPM

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Resale Price Maintenance, or RPM, is a contractual arrangement between an upstream manufacturer (or importer) and a downstream retailer tha...
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If you subsidize religion, you get more of it

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When the state of Israel was founded in 1948, Premier David Ben-Gurion  granted yeshiva students state financing and exemption from army ser...
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Saturday, March 14, 2015

How should you trade the strengthening dollar?

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ZeroHedge critique's Goldman's advice to buy US stocks with big domestic sales: ...the only issue with that is that it bets th...
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Friday, March 13, 2015

Currency wars as a prisoners' dilemma

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As the European Central Bank prints more money, and lowers its interest rates, demand for the euro in the foreign exchange market falls bec...
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Thursday, February 26, 2015

Dynamic Pricing of Ski Lifts

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With the wealth of e-commerce data, ski resorts have begun setting prices based on expected demand . It is hoped that "Dynamic Pricing...
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Saturday, February 21, 2015

Greece swerves

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In an earlier post , we modeled the negotiations between Greece and its creditors as a game of chicken:  failure to reach agreement would b...
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