To Thine Own Self Be True? Incentive Problems in Personalized Law. Scott Duke Kominers, 2020, Paper, "Recent years have seen an explosion…
Companies can manage known risks by reducing their likelihood and impact. But such routine risk management often prevents them from…
This note lays out the basic Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) epidemiological model of contagion, with a target audience of economists…
This article analyzes the trajectory and causes of the explosion of American corporate CEOs’ compensation relative to that of average…
Professor Linda J. Bilmes, a leading expert on budgetary and public financial issues, and researcher Stevie Olsen discuss their…
February 26, 2020, Paper: "This is a curious debate on which much seems to turn on “the stroke of a pen.” Do banks create money or are…
China’s growing role in international finance has remained obscure, mostly due to a lack of data and transparency. The authors’ research,…
February 25, 2020, Paper: "In a Vickrey auction, if one bidder has an option to invest to increase his value, the combined mechanism…
February 25, 2020, Paper: "This study examines data from 35 countries and 24 industries to understand the relationship between gender…
February 24, 2020, Opinion: "The COVID-19 outbreak seems to have raised the odds of a global recession dramatically. But even if no…