Managerial Econ

Economic Analysis of Business Practice

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

In California, running an auction can land you in jail

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Mansion Global :  Before the palisades fires, a nearbySanta Monica property was listed at $15,000 per month. But afterwards, the landlord...
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Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Earth Day Question: Will the world run out of resources?

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Only if you ask an ecologist . "We are using 50% more resources than the Earth can sustainably produce, and unless we change course,...
Monday, April 21, 2025

Incentive conflict between the President and the Fed serves a purpose.

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WSJ : On Monday Mr. Trump demanded again that [the Federal Reserve] make “pre-emptive” interest rate cuts to avoid a slowdown. The Fed...
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Thursday, April 17, 2025

Scale Determines Technology

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The robotaxi business is getting another entrant, but also a different kind of entrant. Zoox , a decade old startup purchased by Amazon in 2...
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Tuesday, April 15, 2025

The Egg Market Rebounds

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To prevent the spread of bird flu, 166 million birds were culled, most toward the end of 2024. Since the US typically has about 400 million...
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Monday, April 14, 2025

S&P 500 Largest Ten Firm Transitions

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The Visual Capitalist produces many wonderful visualizations. This one displays how fast firms rise into and fall out of the the top US 10 ...
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Re-shoring as a response to tariffs?

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Google on the re-shoring response to 2018 Appliance Tariffs : In response to the 2018 U.S. tariffs on washing machines and other appliances...
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Friday, April 4, 2025

Reciprocal tariffs as a tit-for-tat strategy in a repeated prisoners' dilemma

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Trade policy can resemble a Prisoners' Dilemma game: free trade is the best outcome (no tariffs), but that is not a Nash Equilibrium bec...
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Sunday, March 30, 2025

Remove barriers to progress!

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Open Philanthropy's Progress and Growth Fund ...scientific and technological progress that creates ideas is the main driver of long-...
Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Revealed Preference: people like inequality

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 From Bryan Caplan's Bet On It : “In their recent article,‘Why People Prefer Unequal Societies,’the psychologists Christina Starmans, ...
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