Managerial Econ

After the story of how Southwest Airlines broke an attempt at predatory pricing with booze , I learned of the Dow vs. Die Deutsche Bromkonve...

Terzi & Nicoli have a fascinating new paper analyzing over 4,400 orbital launches since 1960 to estimate "Wright's Law." ...

Rainer Zitelmann writes in How Capitalism Beat Communism in Vietnam in Reason Magazine, The state collectives did not reward members for t...

A CNBC story indicates that Starbucks repeatedly raised menu prices over the past several years. Initially, this strategy worked well. High...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) auction can demonstrate economies of scope. The FCC periodically auctions off additional spect...

One of the strongest arguments for industry standards is that they increase competition. A common charging connector means consumers can cho...

The stereotype of price fixing is fat, cigar-chomping executives meeting secretly in smoke-filled rooms to agree to raise prices. But the Ju...

If you wanted to design a property rights regime that guaranteed the waste of a scarce resource, you could hardly do better than Western wat...

On Sept. 16, 2025, a fire at Novelis's aluminum rolling mill in Oswego, New York disrupted roughly 40 percent of the automotive aluminum...

Julie Felss Masino was recruited to become the new CEO of Cracker Barrel in 2023 to reinvigorate the brand. Should strategy focus on growing...