Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Sephora's strategy (make-up/beauty)

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  WSJ has a good summary of the moves that Sephora has made to make it into such a success.  
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Monday, December 27, 2021

How did Larry Summers correctly predict inflation?

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... I thought if you were filling a $30 billion hole [the insufficient aggregate demand necessary to get the US economy to full employment] ...
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Sunday, December 19, 2021

Why is Europe lagging the US and China?

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Since 2000, the EU's share of world income has fallen has fallen from 33% to 25%; and the its companies share of world value has fallen ...
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Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Does Kroger think that moral hazard explains vaccine reluctance?

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How else do you explain their cut in Covid-19 benefits to unvaccinated employees ? Here is what Kroger says:   ...the company is modifying p...
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Committment Matters when Bargaining

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And I bet he got $300.
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Saturday, December 11, 2021

Nobel lecture on inferring causality from non-experimental data

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Why poker players are thinking like economists

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The rise of online poker created a divide between old-school players who had made their careers playing live poker in casinos and a new scho...
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Tuesday, December 7, 2021

Does moral hazard explain some vaccine reluctance?

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If patients know they can get monoclonal antibody treatment, there may be less incentive to get vaccinated: WEBMD : Tennessee health officia...
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Thursday, December 2, 2021

Look ahead and reason back: buying a franchise

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Individual franchisees (like an individual hotel owner) pay to use the brand and business formula of the franchisor (like Best Western, Comf...
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Thursday, November 25, 2021

Governments learn from the consequences of their mistakes

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 If a firm makes a decision that increases costs or reduces quality, there are two immediate consequences: reduced sales as consumers turn t...
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