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Managerial Econ

30.07.2025

Managerial Econ: Nursing Home Quality Improvements through Merger

A successful merger creates wealth by moving an under-performing asset into a more valuable use. But does this wealth derive from the abilit...

Managerial Econ

29.07.2025

Managerial Econ: Monetizing Attractiveness

Many people like to be around attractive people. They will patronize a business more often if they know they might "rub elbows" with people ...

Managerial Econ

29.07.2025

Managerial Econ: The zero-sum fallacy: trade, immigration

MarginalRevolution explains much of our current political conflict as a mistaken belief in the zero-sum fallacy: Zero sum thinking fuel...

Managerial Econ

29.07.2025

Managerial Econ: CA min wage goes up ==> CA employment declines

The classic book, Economics in One Lesson reduces all of economics to a similar lesson: The art of economics consists in looking not merel...

Managerial Econ

29.07.2025

Managerial Econ: Mowing Your Own Lawn

Roland Fryer has a nice opinion piece in the WSJ about " The Economics of DIY ." He points out that even wealthy people tend to do household...

Managerial Econ

29.07.2025

Managerial Econ: “𝗜 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗿, 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝘁 𝗯𝘆 𝗺𝗲, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗺𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝘆 𝗜 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂.”

It was the most terrifying moment of my entrepreneurial journey. I was 31 - a farm kid from Mississippi, sweating through my suit jacket a...

Managerial Econ

08.07.2025

Managerial Econ: Technologies that Drastically Alter Costs Could also Drastically Alter Processes

Austin Vernon has posted an amazing analysis of how AI is transforming logistics. Even before he get to the implications of AI, there is lo...

Managerial Econ

25.06.2025

Managerial Econ: Middling professor opines on deregulation, wealth creation, benefit-cost analysis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOFPggYsKfc

Managerial Econ

22.06.2025

Managerial Econ: Anchor Shock Pricing: How Vail makes most of its money

In 2008, 65% of skiers at Vail Resorts bought single-day lift tickets. Today, 75% of their customers purchase season passes, committing thou...

Managerial Econ

19.06.2025

Managerial Econ: PolyMarket.com predicts outcomes of Israel-Iran conflict

Probability Event 66% US Military action against Iran by July? 59% Khameni out as Supreme Leade...

Managerial Econ

15.06.2025

Managerial Econ: Weaker incentives in unionized plants make them more likely to close

Unionized plants have worse incentive alignment: 26% less likely to offer performance-based bonuses. 11% less likely to promote based...

Managerial Econ

13.06.2025

Managerial Econ: Effects of Zoning: when we restrict supply, prices go up.

Economic Analysis of Business Practice

Managerial Econ

10.06.2025

Managerial Econ: President Trump's deregulation

President Trump must have read Chapter Two: Voluntary Transactions create wealth by moving assets to higher-valued uses; Taxes, pri...

Managerial Econ

08.06.2025

Managerial Econ: Why there is a housing shortage in California

The Free Press : ...I spent two and a half years obtaining permits, navigating a labyrinthine zoning department and paying for not only arc...

Managerial Econ

06.06.2025

Managerial Econ: Punishment increases → murder decreases

From the FreePress : ...Five years ago, ...police activity and staffing fell in big cities (where most of the crime is), as demoralized co...

Managerial Econ

31.05.2025

Managerial Econ: What happens to natural gas prices when weather is mild?

WSJ : U.S. natural gas futures were down for a third straight session as low weather-driven demand looks set to last into the first days of ...

Managerial Econ

31.05.2025

Managerial Econ: Trade with China created US jobs

WSJ: The Real Story of the ‘China Shock’ The jobs harm was largely local and temporary, while overall jobs and consumer welfare increased. ...

Managerial Econ

27.05.2025

Managerial Econ: Why central economic planning worked so well for America in WWII but so badly almost everywhere else—most notably in the Soviet Union

From Bastiat's Window : The answer is right out of Chapter 1, "incentive alignment." ...the key to that success (versus the Soviets’ 75-ye...

Managerial Econ

21.05.2025

Managerial Econ: WSJ: Why EU lags US in tech.

Someone at the WSJ read Why the U.S. Produces More Unicorns than the EU Limited Presence of Major Tech Firms : Apple's market cap > ent...

Managerial Econ

18.05.2025

Managerial Econ: Should professors--but not their students--use chatbots?

NYTimes : Ella Stapleton said she was surprised to find that a professor had used ChatGPT to assemble course materials. “He’s telling us no...

Managerial Econ

18.05.2025

Managerial Econ: Why the U.S. Produces More Unicorns Than China and the EU

The United States has produced about twice as many unicorns (private startups valued at $1B+) as China and more than four times as many as...

Managerial Econ

17.05.2025

Managerial Econ: Too many Superheros?

How much content should a franchise produce? A recent WSJ story indicates that the expanding Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is approaching...

Managerial Econ

17.05.2025

Managerial Econ: How to raise kids in the age of AI

FreePress Article : AI Will Change What It Is to Be Human. Are We Ready? ...If you raise your children with the uncritical expectation that...

Managerial Econ

06.05.2025

Managerial Econ: The best tariff threat is one you do not have to use

Following up on an earlier post, Reciprocal tariffs as a tit-for-tat strategy in a repeated prisoners' dilemma From NY Times : Trump impos...

Managerial Econ

04.05.2025

Managerial Econ: The price of "free" healthcare is the wait

While healthcare in Canada's single-payer health care system is technically free, its real price is measured in wait times. In 2023, the...

Managerial Econ

24.04.2025

Managerial Econ: In California, running an auction can land you in jail

Mansion Global : Before the palisades fires, a nearbySanta Monica property was listed at $15,000 per month. But afterwards, the landlord...

Managerial Econ

22.04.2025

Managerial Econ: Incentive conflict between the President and the Fed serves a purpose.

WSJ : On Monday Mr. Trump demanded again that [the Federal Reserve] make “pre-emptive” interest rate cuts to avoid a slowdown. The Fed...

Managerial Econ

18.04.2025

Managerial Econ: Scale Determines Technology

The robotaxi business is getting another entrant, but also a different kind of entrant. Zoox , a decade old startup purchased by Amazon in 2...

Managerial Econ

16.04.2025

Managerial Econ: Egg Market Rebounds

To prevent the spread of bird flu, 166 million birds were culled, most toward the end of 2024. Since the US typically has about 400 million...

Managerial Econ

15.04.2025

Managerial Econ: Re-shoring as a response to tariffs?

Google on the re-shoring response to 2018 Appliance Tariffs : In response to the 2018 U.S. tariffs on washing machines and other appliances...

Managerial Econ

15.04.2025

Managerial Econ: S&P 500 Largest Ten Firm Transitions

The Visual Capitalist produces many wonderful visualizations. This one displays how fast firms rise into and fall out of the the top US 10 ...

Managerial Econ

05.04.2025

Managerial Econ: Reciprocal tariffs as a tit-for-tat strategy in a repeated prisoners' dilemma

Trade policy has the characteristic of a Prisoners' Dilemma game: free trade is the best outcome (no tariffs), but that is not a Nash Equili...

Managerial Econ

02.04.2025

Managerial Econ: Will the world run out of resources?

Only if you ask an ecologist . "We are using 50% more resources than the Earth can sustainably produce, and unless we change course, that ...

Managerial Econ

31.03.2025

Managerial Econ: Remove barriers to progress!

Open Philanthropy's Progress and Growth Fund ...scientific and technological progress that creates ideas is the main driver of long-run ...

Managerial Econ

26.03.2025

Managerial Econ: Revealed Preference: people like inequality

From Bryan Caplan's Bet On It : “In their recent article,‘Why People Prefer Unequal Societies,’the psychologists Christina Starmans, Mark...

Managerial Econ

25.03.2025

Managerial Econ: Historical conservationists are the bad guys

Economist : [Cambridge, MA] is “becoming a barbell society,” ...The poor got help and the wealthy lived well, but ... young families lea...

Managerial Econ

24.03.2025

Managerial Econ: Can income buy happiness?

Economist : The magazine article focuses on explaining "residual" happiness, the vertical distance between the line and the observation),...

Managerial Econ

23.03.2025

Managerial Econ: Compensating differentials: wind turbines

From MarginalRevolution : Danish houses near wind turbines have 12% lower prices.

Managerial Econ

18.03.2025

Managerial Econ: The Grumpy Economist on Foreign aid: "send a person a fish every day, and he forgets how to fish."

John Cochrane recommends the Economist article Aid cannot make poor countries rich. From 2004 to 2014, foreign aid increased by 75%, but i...

Managerial Econ

14.03.2025

Managerial Econ: Effects of Tariff increases

Article by Joshua Hendrickson The U.S. dollar is the world’s reserve currency, and the U.S. Treasury security is the global reserve asset...

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Managerial Econ - Economy

Managerial Econ: Nursing Home Quality Improvements through Merger

Managerial Econ: Monetizing Attractiveness

Managerial Econ: The zero-sum fallacy: trade, immigration

Managerial Econ: CA min wage goes up ==> CA employment declines

Managerial Econ: Mowing Your Own Lawn

Managerial Econ: Technologies that Drastically Alter Costs Could also Drastically Alter Processes

Managerial Econ: Middling professor opines on deregulation, wealth creation, benefit-cost analysis

Managerial Econ: Anchor Shock Pricing: How Vail makes most of its money

Managerial Econ: PolyMarket.com predicts outcomes of Israel-Iran conflict

Managerial Econ: Weaker incentives in unionized plants make them more likely to close

Managerial Econ: Effects of Zoning: when we restrict supply, prices go up.

Managerial Econ: President Trump's deregulation

Managerial Econ: Why there is a housing shortage in California

Managerial Econ: Punishment increases → murder decreases

Managerial Econ: What happens to natural gas prices when weather is mild?

Managerial Econ: Trade with China created US jobs

Managerial Econ: Why central economic planning worked so well for America in WWII but so badly almost everywhere else—most notably in the Soviet Union

Managerial Econ: WSJ: Why EU lags US in tech.

Managerial Econ: Should professors--but not their students--use chatbots?

Managerial Econ: Why the U.S. Produces More Unicorns Than China and the EU

Managerial Econ: Too many Superheros?

Managerial Econ: How to raise kids in the age of AI

Managerial Econ: The best tariff threat is one you do not have to use

Managerial Econ: The price of "free" healthcare is the wait

Managerial Econ: In California, running an auction can land you in jail

Managerial Econ: Incentive conflict between the President and the Fed serves a purpose.

Managerial Econ: Scale Determines Technology

Managerial Econ: Egg Market Rebounds

Managerial Econ: Re-shoring as a response to tariffs?

Managerial Econ: S&P 500 Largest Ten Firm Transitions

Managerial Econ: Reciprocal tariffs as a tit-for-tat strategy in a repeated prisoners' dilemma

Managerial Econ: Will the world run out of resources?

Managerial Econ: Remove barriers to progress!

Managerial Econ: Revealed Preference: people like inequality

Managerial Econ: Historical conservationists are the bad guys

Managerial Econ: Can income buy happiness?

Managerial Econ: Compensating differentials: wind turbines

Managerial Econ: The Grumpy Economist on Foreign aid: "send a person a fish every day, and he forgets how to fish."

Managerial Econ: Effects of Tariff increases

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