How the NBA Takes Money From People Who Don’t Like Basketball
The Arco Arena. (Photo: Eric Fredericks) The Sacramento Kings will continue to exist. This week, the City Council approved a plan to finance a new home for the Kings in…
The Arco Arena. (Photo: Eric Fredericks) The Sacramento Kings will continue to exist. This week, the City Council approved a plan to finance a new home for the Kings in…
Sheryl Sandberg at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2012. (Photo: World Economic Forum) Jennifer Colosi runs a San Francisco executive search firm with a concentration in finance. Here’s what…
…Maybe the Chinese have bought all of our stock markets (although I seriously doubt it). Or maybe, for whatever reason, Yahoo! Finance is simply some coding issues. Because when I…
…“long-term sustainable growth.” Rajan writes: “The United States must improve the capabilities of its work force, preserve an environment for innovation, and regulate finance better so as to prevent excess.”…
…paralyzing debate. Since transportation is mostly funded by gas taxes that are levied on a per-gallon basis, are rarely raised, and are not even indexed for inflation, the transportation finance…
…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…
…when most future events are predominantly random? What explains, e.g., the significant money spent in the finance industry on people who appear to be commenting about random walks, payments for…
…(IP) protections are central. We do something different: we explore innovative industries—such as fashion, food, fonts, and finance–in which IP is either unavailable or not effective. In these industries copying…
…over the past year the team has led work on health, energy, fraud, electoral registration, charitable giving, consumer affairs, the labour market, and access to finance for SMEs [that’s Euro-speak…
…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…
…ways to live with piracy – and even to profit from it. Our book focuses on a number of industries – fashion, food, comedy, finance, fonts, and others – that…
…of Women) . “The worst-hit industries were overwhelmingly male, and deeply identified with macho: construction, manufacturing, high finance. Some of those jobs have come back, but the dislocation is neither…
…the transcript here.) The episode was inspired by a recent poll I saw on Yahoo! Finance: Does anyone believe for a minute that this many people would actually leave the…
…I completely agree. I hope that will not be necessary. A couple other random observations: I thought the mix of industries was interesting. I saw video games, consumer finance, real…
…both property and violent crimes. We proxy time preferences employing: 1) the amount of short-term debt to finance consumption (the consumer credit share); 2) the prevalence of obese people according…
…or avoid? Or stated differently, what impresses you about the business savvy or some artists — and not others? A. It is really hard to finance an album or a…
…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…
…a job pays $1,450 herself, and $1,450 through her employer to finance Medicare? This seems inequitable. The tax on all investment income, regardless of one’s total income, should be the…
…as efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions have faltered: Venture capital and private equity investments fell 34 percent last year, to $5.8 billion, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Now…
…58 percent. Liberty officials say such statistics reflect an admissions policy geared more toward opportunity than exclusivity. And Liberty is doing well on the finance front too: “The university ended…
…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…
…before –will probably not make much difference. A study published in the International Journal of Sport Finance (full PDF here) – which I conducted with Mike Leeds, Eva Marikova Leeds,…
…Family and personal circumstances also influence the labor-leisure decision in ways that lead to ambiguous predictions of the effect of ERIs on achievement. Finally, principals and administrators may respond to…
…places them in the top 1.5 percent of the household income distribution, are not wealthy by modern standards), but they are comfortable. They can afford to finance their retirement through…
…coverage effectively, with no evidence of the feared “sunk cost” effect, in which people do not use items acquired for free. Two microfinance charities stand out for their innovative work…
…City. It’s a high-income place, and has for more than a century been a creative powerhouse: publishing, music, fashion, art, finance, software, you name it. But energy consumption per person…
…donations facilitate the wealthy’s well-documented greater influence with legislators has long inspired reformers to make changes to the system of campaign finance. Our results support their concerns.” (HT: The Daily…
…for answers he couldn’t remember or for insights into his personality and leadership. … But, and this is what caught me off-guard, he twice said “I don’t know” in response…
Kidney failure is such a catastrophic (and expensive) disease that Medicare covers treatment for anyone, regardless of age. Since Medicare reimbursement rates are fairly low, the dialysis industry had to…
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….
