…a business research site that provides plain-language summaries of working papers in economics, finance, and world trade. It’s also the home of “Silly Economist,” which pokes fun at blatant lapses…
…members of the military would be to enact legislation that essentially incorporates protections such as those in CFSA’s Military Best Practices and applies them to all creditors, including finance companies,…
…days for putting together The Covenant With Black America, a collection of essays about education, health care, crime, finance, and so on. The implicit point is that black America still…
…paper, “On the General Relativity of Fiscal Language,” by Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Jerry Green, which admits that the language of economists (well, the ones who write about finance at…
…grants to finance construction of so-called congestion pricing systems.” The people developing these systems will probably proceed with a bit more caution in light of the fact that a letter…
…of Honor Guangdong Economics Publishing House The publishers of “Freakonomics” are hereby awarded the 2006 “New Path Prize” for finance publications. Jesse explained that he came up with “New Path…
…English is not only the international business language, but the language of aspiration for the up-and-coming Indian.) In the last few years, several of my friends who work in finance…
An article in today’s Wall Street Journal asserts that, while various life skills seem to deteriorate as people get older, our skill at making personal-finance decisions doesn’t peak until the…
The New York Times had a great piece yesterday on Steven Udvar-Hazy, founder and chief executive of the International Lease Finance Corporation and one of the most powerful figures in…
…politics, energy consumption, finance, cancer research, etc. One natural way to approach such systems is to take note of what inputs and outputs already exist and then, isolating them, try…
Back in June, 2007, we wrote a column about the research of Itzhak Ben-David, a Ph.D. candidate in finance at the University of Chicago (who has since accepted an assistant…
Itzhak Ben-David is a Ph.D. candidate in finance at the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business. (Levitt is one of his dissertation advisors.) While pursuing his original research idea…
…proceeded to study accounting and finance and work his way up a few corporate ladders before founding his own firm, but that is not what makes him remarkable. What makes…
…private schools before college, and 40 percent attain an advanced degree afterward.” As further indication that the school is among the more prestigious: the “fields of education, finance, health care,…
…and dollars shipped to Zimbabwe would be stolen at a rate of 99.5 cents on the dollar. Why not effectively put the funds in escrow to finance future conservation projects…
…he was also a student of finance and accounting at the London School of Economics. He did not graduate from LSE, however; he attended for just a short time. I…
…Montfort University finance professor Panagiotis Andrikopoulos has published a study on the “predictive power of corporate name changes on companies’ subsequent long-term stock market performance,” using a sample of 803…
…Hsu, one of two young Merrill Lynch employees who left finance to start a yo-yo company, Yo-Yo Nation. Weber asked if we wanted them to create a special promotional Freakonomics…
…Considering that there are so many Indians of poker age in this country who thrive in finance, computer science, engineering, and other fields that incorporate math, probability, risk, etc. —…
…years: what would happen if the I.R.S. were independent as well? If you’re interested in the subject, you might want to check out this 1998 testimony before the Senate’s Finance…
…is an exciting young finance guy who was recently lured away from U.T. Austin by the Columbia Business School, and his paper, “Does Liquidity Affect Securities Market Efficiency?” arrives at…
…the day, they could never be sure who had voted for them. A similar anti-transparency argument can be applied to campaign finance. We might replicate the benefits of the voting…
…the company’s growth, including auction design, finance, corporate strategy, and public policy. He has also spent a lot of time in the classroom, serving as a professor and former dean…
…title of Collins’s earlier book). From Yahoo Finance. Ironically, I began reading the book on the very same day that one of the eleven “good to great” companies, Fannie Mae,…
…with very little money down and finance it at a good rate, and then rent it out for just enough to cover the mortgage, insurance, and taxes, then you’ve hit…
We received an interesting bleg from Martin Saavedra, who is studying international economics and finance at the Catholic University of America and plans to start an economics Ph.D. next fall….
…a bet is framed. One is modern finance, while the other is a repugnant market. Both, of course, are simply state-contingent contracts. But I’m also confused for another reason. The…
…retracement strikes me as nonsense on stilts as applied to finance. I’m not as convinced by the short-term, random-walk hypothesis as I was in the days before programmed trading. But…
…mind, he’s one of the most fluent guides to the state of modern finance in that he combines the rigors of a quant with a behavioralist’s appreciation for human intricacy….
…leads Pearlstein to deliver a zesty kicker to his column: So here’s a question the House Financial Services Committee might put to the Titans of Finance: How is it that…