Economic Logic

I am sure you wondered what makes that vegetarianism is more prevalent in some countries than others. I am glad to help you today. Eimear Le...

There is currently a debate between Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson and David Bloom, David Canning and Güther Fink on whether health impr...

Amartya Sen has provided an important framework that helps define the basic needs that human should be able to get. His capabilities and fun...

While people are now used to widespread smoking bans in the United States, European countries are right now going through the painful transi...

Does publishing the performance of schools work to improve them? Schools certainly resist such disclosure, as they are afraid of being expos...

The availability of large amounts of natural resources is sometimes a curse, sometimes a boon. There are plenty of countries where the disco...

In many countries, social security systems face obvious challenges, yet little has been done about it so far. That is either because it is n...

Genocides and mass killings are still part of modern history, and when they happen it is most of the time too late to intervene. Thus preven...

On financial markets, it is well known that anticipated changes in policy interest rates have little impact because they have already been p...

Do anticipated tax changes have an impact? Theory tells us they should: as households anticipate future tax liabilities, which reduce their ...

To be an entrepreneur, you should be confident and not risk-averse, given the high default rates. In a sense, you need to be out of the ordi...

So you come across a museum and wonder whether it is worth visiting. The entrance price is rather steep, and given the uncertainty of your f...

Everybody agrees that child labor should be eradicated, even if some child labor maybe efficient. There is also wide agreement (except among...

In the face of the AIDS epidemic, African governments have a very hard time convincing their constituents to refrain from risky sexual pract...

If you compare the cars sold in Europe and the United States, the US ones are woefully fuel inefficient. And it is striking that even Americ...