…Imitation Sparks Innovation Introduction 1 Knockoffs and Fashion Victims 2 Cuisine, Copying, and Creativity 3 Comedy Vigilantes 4 Football, Fonts, Finance, and Feist Conclusion: Copies and Creativity Epilogue: The Future…
…I co-authored with Mike Leeds, Eva Marikova Leeds, and Mike Mondello and published in the International Journal of Sport Finance (full PDF here) looked at 62 NBA coaches across thirty…
There are more than twice as many suicides as murders in the U.S., but suicide attracts far less scrutiny. Freakonomics Radio digs through the numbers and finds all kinds of…
…disclosed that 44 percent of their revenues came from rating structured finance products, exceeding the 32 percent earned from rating corporate bonds. There is also direct evidence that rating agencies…
…you consider yourself a follower of the Friedman/Stigler/Coase/Miller school of economics and finance, or a follower of Keynes and Tobin? – Jeff Carter A. I am more of a data-dog,…
…narrowly avoiding a career in finance, Zack joined Freakonomics Radio where he is now a senior producer. His economics degree from New York University has been put to surprisingly good use. He can be…
…to finance innovations in food production that will ultimately help get food to people who really need it? Or, is that complete self-deception? What advice do you have for Lauren?…
…more recent research. Here is the latest round. frank asked: One quote that comes up frequently in finance (I have also heard it applied to law) is along the lines…
…I published a study of NBA coaching in the International Journal of Sport Finance. This paper took a different approach, examining how NBA coaches impacted the productivity of individual NBA…
Are performance-based pay structures partly to blame for the mortgage crisis? Do our tastes in entertainment correspond to our political views? Do behavioral problems in kindergarten affect future school performance?…
…were looking for a research assistant on a microfinance project in Ghana. I had read a little bit about microfinance and had a background in math, and the IPA website…
The U.S. is home to seven of the world’s 10 biggest companies. How did that happen? The answer may come down to two little letters: V.C. Is venture capital good…
Time is precious. How can doctors and patients make the best use of it — especially when there isn’t much left?…
…the boat. So meaningful issues get swept under the rug. These include the erosion of the transportation finance base; the underpricing of auto-related externalities like emissions, crashes, and congestion; and…
…vacuum of finance that it create[d],” as euros flee from Greece, and as bank loans dry up in Spain, I wished that the 964 fully solved problems included one or…
…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,…
They’re heading to the Super Bowl for the second time in five years. But back in 2018, they were coming off a long losing streak — and that’s the year…
Planet Money interviews Nassim Taleb, who recently participated in a Freakonomics quorum on financial reform, for its Deep Read series. Taleb compares the developed world’s dependence on debt to drug…
A revised bailout plan has been announced, and President Bush has thrown his weight behind it. To my eye, the rewriting of Paulson‘s plan this past week has been worthwhile;…
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…
…article takes the story from there, riffing on–among many other things–a classic paper on the economics of fishing to tell the tale of Iceland’s rise and fall in global finance,…
…wants to believe) that behavioral economics has a lot to teach us about real-world investing behavior. The money quote: “What you’re seeing is a gigantic exercise in behavioral finance,” says…
Frisco used to be just another sleepy bedroom community outside of Dallas. Now it’s got corporate headquarters, billions of investment dollars, and a bunch of Democrats in a place that…
The man who wants America to “think harder” has parlayed his quixotic presidential campaign into front-runner status in New York’s mayoral election. And he has some big plans….
One of the most storied (and valuable) sports franchises in the world had fallen far. So they decided to do a full reboot — and it worked: this week, they…
Mark Zuckerberg’s dentist dad was an early adopter of digital x-rays. Jack Welch blew the roof off a factory. Carol Bartz was a Wisconsin farm girl who got into computers….
James Surowiecki explores the phenomenon of investor amnesia: Despite numerous examples of dishonesty and untrustworthiness, investors continue to trust Wall Street firms with their money. “It’s like what Hegel supposedly…
They’ve long been associated with crime and blight. Now, the investors are moving in. Zachary Crockett follows the trail.
…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,…
The pandemic may be winding down, but that doesn’t mean we’ll return to full-time commuting and packed office buildings. The greatest accidental experiment in the history of labor has lessons…
