Prediction Markets in New Orleans: A Guest Post
…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…
There are enough management consultants these days to form a small nation. But what do they actually do? And does it work?
…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…
…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…
…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…
Stephen Dubner’s conversation with the former longtime C.E.O. of General Electric, recorded for the Freakonomics Radio series “The Secret Life of a C.E.O.”…
Most high-school math classes are still preparing students for the Sputnik era. Steve Levitt wants to get rid of the “geometry sandwich” and instead have kids learn what they really…
…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…
…finance Kyle’s minuscule paperwork fees, all four of those workers re-entered the on-call rotation. At first they just reclaimed a shift here or there, but “once they realized how streamlined…
The restaurant business model is warped: kitchen wages are too low to hire cooks, while diners are put in charge of paying the waitstaff. So what happens if you eliminate…
Only a tiny number of “supertaskers” are capable of doing two things at once. The rest of us are just making ourselves miserable, and less productive. How can we put…
The world is warmer than ever, and getting hotter. Bapu Jena looks at how heat affects our bodies and our behavior — and how we might adapt to rising temperatures….
Billionaire John Arnold is figuring out how to do as much good as he can with his wealth. It takes hard work, risk tolerance, and a lot of spending.
The market for gustatory pain is surprisingly competitive. Zachary Crockett feels the burn….
…the “below average” category got frowns, but the utility stopped using them after a few customers got upset. The exciting news is that “customers who received the personalized report reduced…
The racial wealth gap in the U.S. is massive. We explore the causes, consequences and potential solutions. Also: another story of discrimination and economic disparity, this one perpetrated by an…
…how campaign-finance subsidies would be distributed. But here the voucher scheme is implemented by a less obtrusive choice architecture. The ordinary act of reading or listening to a piece of…
…on the context” and “this is a complex issue” … This is too bad, because the stakes are certainly high. In my opinion, our efforts to intelligently discuss public finance…
It began as a post-war dream for a more collaborative and egalitarian workplace. It has evolved into a nightmare of noise and discomfort. Can the open office be saved, or…
…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. —…
…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…
Christina Romer was a top White House economist during the Great Recession. As a researcher, she specializes in the Great Depression. She tells us what those disasters can (and can’t)…
…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…
For all the speculation about the future, A.I. tools can be useful right now. Adam Davidson discovers what they can help us do, how we can get the most from…
We rely on polls and surveys to tell us how people will behave in the future. Too bad they’re completely unreliable.
Also: Why is it smart to ignore what your podcast hosts look like?…
The gist: If U.S. schoolteachers are indeed “just a little bit below average,” it’s not really their fault. So what should be done about it?
…a political donor strike against congressional candidates who don’t support campaign finance reform. Lessig is founder of Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society. Before joining the Stanford faculty,…
…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…
When you want to get rid of a nasty pest, one obvious solution comes to mind: just offer a cash reward. But be careful — because nothing backfires quite like…
…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…
