The last ten years have seen the growth of linkages between many of the world’s cap-and-trade systems for greenhouse gases (GHGs), both…
The plight of the Affordable Care Act Web site has focused attention on a problem that seldom receives it — the absence of good management…
The authors address the indisputable fact that high real interest rates place an added burden on debtors, whether they are households,…
The daunting complexity of important financial decisions can lead to
procrastination. We evaluate a low-cost intervention that…
Washington, D.C. is again in the grip of its long-running budgetary soap opera. Episode 1, “Fiscal Cliffs,” was followed shortly by “…
In many regulated markets, private, third-party auditors are chosen and paid by the firms that they audit, potentially creating a conflict…
Traditional decision theory distinguishes between risk and uncertainty. With risk, the probabilities of possible outcomes are known; with…
Whatever loathing voters feel toward Washington, D.C., it is a fair bet they make an exception for America’s national parks — immortalized…
Sheila Burke and Elaine Kamarck seek to offer a balanced way of looking at the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) that…