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Weekly Roundup: From Baseball Contracts to Super Bowl Ads
Our week’s everyday economics include inflation, supply and demand, income mobility, property rights, incentives, default, CDS, and monopoly pricing.
How To Keep Your Parking Spot After a Snow Storm
Winter dibs is about whether you have temporary parking space property rights by shoveling your car out of the snow and if your self interest helps society.
Weekly Roundup: From Hot Hands to Sunk Costs
The behavioral economics ideas from our everyday economics are confirmation, expectations and projection bias, frames, temporal discounting and sunk costs.
Can Economists See the Hot Hand?
With implications that extend beyond sports, believers in classical economics and in behavioral economics are debating whether players can have streaks.
Weekly Roundup: 6 Mysteries
Our everyday economic stories involve participation rates, human capital, signaling, ROI, money, price, austerity, personal income, monopoly and bubbles.
Weekly Roundup: From Drinking Behavior to Dating Decisions
This week’s everyday economics involved 6 economists and such ideas as product differentiation, behavioral economics, marginal utility, price and trade.
How Men Act When They Outnumber Women
How gender ratios in the U.S. and China affect men’s financial behavior can be explained with supply and demand and behavioral economics from Gary Becker.
What a Blind Taste Test Showed About Beer
Behavioral economic ideas show that product differentiation and consumer preference are more from branding than the taste of colas or beers.
Weekly Roundup: From Marijuana to the Metric System
Our everyday economics include globalization, opportunity cost, inflation, employment, monetary policy, negative externalities, recession, business cycle.