Managerial Econ

Potential exam question: QUESTION:  Nashville currently has had a ban on evictions for about two months.   In about two weeks this ban wil...

New paper  identifies a strategy mistake by Marriott: Early in the 1980s, Marriott operated a chain of large, higher-end full-service hote...

Many business problems are questions of causality: How much will sales increase if I increase my advertising budget? Will employee produ...

For a variety of reasons (many asymptomatic cases, lack of random testing), it is difficult to measure the infection rate or the death rate...

Anyone who has followed this blog, knows that I was a big fan of urban density : it reduces commuting costs, pollution , urban sprawl but, ...

Alex Taborrak tells it like it is: The huge demand for antibody rich blood (to develop a vaccine) has driven up the price: From March ...

The Daily Mail reports that Elon Musk has seemingly joined the chorus demanding the end to COVID-19 related lockdowns . But it also reports ...

Mulligan, Murphy, and Topel* have a thoughtful policy piece on " Some basic economics of COVID-19 policy ." It combines a number o...

New Paper:  Mobile phone (GPS) data shows  Richer and younger New York City residents are able to shelter in second homes and with friends...

From WSJ :  Indeed, the experience has the family rethinking its commitment to the city. Until the pandemic, the suburbs didn’t seem prac...