Economic Logic

Wouldn't we all love to have competent politicians? Vincenzo Galasso and Tommaso Nannicini show you how to get them. First the theory: ...

Hurricanes create havoc and large costs, as nobody doubts. Some of those costs are easy to measure: life are lost, property is damaged, insu...

Why do some areas have higher unemployment? There are some obvious explanations, but could cultural aspects matter? For example, the social ...

There is a well published on tax competition between authorities, where the object of competition are tax rates and occasionally public serv...

Looking at when health expenses are made, in particular out-of-pocket ones, a large share of them are made towards the end of one's life...

We tend take preferences as given and constant, but there is mounting evidence that preferences change over the life cycle and over externa...

Have you noticed how the grip on intellectual property law keeps expanding: copyright periods lengthen, the scope of patentable "innova...

It used to be the case that most elderly people, once widowed, would live with one of their children. Very few do so now, and one can have s...

In the United States, there have been two periods during which home ownership rates increased markedly: 1940's-1950's (47% to 65%) a...

I just learned that one of my papers made it to the exclusive list of the SSRN top ten. Well, that was a few weeks ago, as my listed contact...

I have always found it difficult to root for the local sports teams knowing that very few of their players are actually locals. In professio...

Open source is a mystery to many, given that contributors give away their innovations and competitors can just scoop them up. One would thus...

Everybody agrees that child labor is a problem, including the working child's parents. Some years ago, various groups, including the Int...

Economists always find data elicited from surveys very suspect. Unless money or actual decisions are on the line, people may say anything. F...

The debate about introducing a flat tax regularly flares up, but rarely is it based on a serious case study. The problem is that this debate...