Managerial Econ

Economic Analysis of Business Practice

Friday, May 29, 2015

The Economist who realized how crazy we were

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Profile of Richard Thaler from Bloomberg : ...Thaler began to keep a list of things that people did that made a mockery of economic model...
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Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Can incentive pay give us better drugs?

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Express Scripts, a PBM (Pharmaceutical Benefits Manager) who negotiates drug prices with pharmaceutical companies (on behalf of consumers) t...
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Tuesday, May 26, 2015

John Nash, RIP

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John Nash and his wife were killed in a car crash as driver of the taxi he was riding in lost control. Students of our textbook will re...
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Friday, May 22, 2015

What happens when the government guarantees over half of all financial sector liabilities?

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From the Richmond Fed : •  A contributing factor to the financial crisis of 2007-08 was the government's long history of emergency loa...
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Warren Buffett weighs in on the Nashville Mayoral Race

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...albeit indirectly : Warren Buffett thinks a $15 minimum wage will 'reduce employment in a major way, crushing many workers' T...
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Is there anything incentive pay cannot do?

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... like motivate women to be better wives and mothers : Forgive me if I am not exactly sympathetic.   Fair enough. But look at it an...
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Thursday, May 21, 2015

Choose Moody's to signal financial health

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Moody's just downgraded the Chicago's debt to junk status while S&P has them rated at "investment grade." The diff...
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Investment advice, courtesy of Barclay's

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The blog post below raises an issue of how one should invest money.  The best advice I can give is Before you buy a stock, figure out ...
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How Barclay's took advantage of its client's stop-loss orders

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The FT had a nice article on the efforts to rig foreign currency titled "If you ain't cheating, you ain't trying."  Here...
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US Central Bank's statement reduces the value of the dollar

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Almost everyone had assumed that the US Central Bank would start raising interest rates in June .  The just released notes from their meetin...
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