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The Wall Street Journal reports today that Budweiser and Bud Light continue to experience market share declines in the United States. Â The chart shown here documents the eroding share over the past...
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View ArticleConfidence Pocketbook: Little Exercises for a Self-Assured Life
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View ArticleThe Little Black Book of Decision Making: Making Complex Decisions with...
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View ArticleMutation Clusters from Cancer Exome. (arXiv:1707.08504v1 [q-bio.GN] CROSS...
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View ArticleNash equilibria for game contingent claims with utility-based hedging....
Game contingent claims (GCCs) generalize American contingent claims by allowing the writer to recall the option as long as it is not exercised, at the price of paying some penalty. In incomplete...
View ArticleA hydrodynamic model for cooperating solidary countries. (arXiv:1707.09203v1...
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Standard economic models that guide competition policy imply that demand increases should lead to more, not fewer firms. However, Sutton's (1991) model illustrates that in some cases, demand increases...
View ArticleThe Emergence of Weak, Despotic and Inclusive States -- by Daron Acemoglu,...
Societies under similar geographic and economic conditions and subject to similar external influences nonetheless develop very different types of states. At one extreme are weak states with little...
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Recent studies have reported a reversal of an earlier trend in income segregation in metropolitan regions, from a decline in the 1990s to an increase in the 2000-2010 decade. This finding reinforces...
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Official income inequality statistics indicate a sharp rise in inequality over the past five decades. These statistics do not accurately reflect inequality because income is poorly measured,...
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We analyze the fate of 110 Italian banks that experienced abrupt drops in profitability, from which about 1/3 recover. Recovery depends primarily on post-shock adjustments made by the banks,...
View ArticleThe Structure of State Corporate Taxation and its Impact on State Tax...
This paper documents facts about the state corporate tax structure -- tax rates, base rules, and credits -- and investigates its consequences for state tax revenue and economic activity. We present...
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