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…finance their new-car purchases, easy loans kept U.S. sales hovering around 17 million vehicles a year until gas prices spiked. At the same time, substantial gains in quality and reliability…
…finance their new-car purchases, easy loans kept U.S. sales hovering around 17 million vehicles a year until gas prices spiked. At the same time, substantial gains in quality and reliability…
…There is only one main industry. N.Y. is also the country’s fashion and finance capital, and it is easier to get lost in the crowd. Q. At what point in…
…is an analysis by Yale finance gurus?Gary Gorton and?Andrew Metrick, in which they dig into the Shadow Banking system, and provide?a specific proposal for reform: And there were also terrific…
…of promised benefits from Social Security and, especially, Medicare over the taxes now in place to finance these and other programs – that seriously threatens the long-run health of the…
…finance, emeritus, at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, in a telephone interview. “But I’m not going to take the blame for the numbers they put in.” If…
…about any endeavor is likely to pay Marshmallow benefits even outside that area of specialization.? My personal bias is in guiding my children toward endeavors (like learning statistics or US…
Earlier this week, Tobias J. Moskowitz (a University of Chicago finance professor) and?L. Jon Wertheim (a Sports Illustrated writer) contributed a guest post on black NFL coaches, which was an…
…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…
…to move in the right circles). The counter party is deceived because they expect others, even in big liquid markets with impersonal transactions, not to make trades using that kind…
…don’t take Bohr’s word for it. Let’s look at evidence from a couple of fields unrelated to the NFL draft: finance and politics. In recent years, academic researchers have been…
…and finance.” One of the program’s perks, and there are many (including dinners with the likes of Paul Volcker, Jamie Dimon, and Joseph Stiglitz), is that you can get an…
…China’s government debt is considerably higher than has been acknowledged by the Finance Ministry, which puts just the central government’s debt at 17% of GDP without taking into account local…
…to Australia to begin his first academic appointment at ANU. Over the next few years he proceeded to write on everything from income inequality, to public finance, discrimination, education, and…
…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…
…sports economist and professor of economics at Smith College. There’s a joke economists like to tell. Two finance economists are walking down the street. They spot a $20 bill and…
…the Carnegie Conjecture. DUBNER: That’s Vikas Mehrotra. He’s a finance professor at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. The Carnegie Conjecture goes back to Andrew Carnegie, who made a huge…
…6.5:1; in electrical engineering 2.5:1, and in finance 0.5:1.) As for economists having poor track records, I might agree with you, at least when it comes to macroeconomics. I believe…
…Rate. You and I and the businesses we work for don’t borrow using short-term interest rates. Instead, we finance our investments with longer-term loans. The Fed Funds Rate only matters…
…the purchase of “conflict minerals”—those that might be used to finance warfare in Africa, particularly the Congo. I noted the very simple economic point that this would create a surplus…
…details about inequality, international trade, national accounting, government budgets, monetary policy, exchange rates, regulation, social policy, finance and the labor market. After this sort of exposure, it’s little surprise that…
Photo: velorowdy A recent study in the Journal of Finance by Zhi Da and Paul Gao of the University of Notre Dame shows that data from public Google searches can…
…authors used Vital Statistics data from 1990 – 2007, and Federal Housing Finance Agency Price Index (and alternately the Case-Shiller Index) to simulate equity/fertility correlations. From the abstract: Our estimates…
…Interestingly, the start-up is run by a man who was on Gov. Rick Perry’s re-election finance committee and by another whose father was a previous chancellor of the System (with…
…a regular contributor to Freakonomics, is a transportation scholar at UCLA. His work focuses on transportation and well-being, transportation equity, transportation finance, and transportation history. AMTRAK: OFF TRACK I have…
Our most recent podcast, “Why Is ‘I Don’t Know’ So Hard to Say?,” continues to draw interesting replies. Here’s one from Erich Knobil, who works in the finance office of…
…Washington used a lottery to assist in the funding of the Continental Army and purchased the first ticket for a federal lottery— sponsored to finance improvements in Washington, D.C. —…
…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?…
…in fact the opposite turned out to be true. (Ungated paper here.) FWIW, here’s a TV interview I did with Yahoo! Finance on the topic a few weeks back. And…
…one-in-four households underwater and unable to withdraw home equity to finance consumption, a slow suburban housing recovery bodes poorly for short-run growth in aggregate demand and a broader economic recovery….
…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…