Brand loyalty, preferring aspartame in Diet Pepsi and Coca-Cola's original recipe can be explained by ideas from behavioral economics like status quo bias.
Whereas immigration can result in more workers, their impact on wages can be neutral because those immigrants create more demand which leads to more jobs.
Illustrated by the impact of cheap oil, the natural resource curse hits countries that have disproportionately focused economic activity on one industry.
Disney is considering dynamic pricing to spread attendance and diminish lines. Restaurants, airlines, hotels and others with pricing power also vary price.
Instead of command and control, a reverse auction or a Coasian solution would provide better ways to manage overbooked flights and bumped passengers.
A government Nudge Squad that compensates for our irrational behavior is dealing with policy makers with the same behavioral economics irrationalities.
Praised by some for its disease classification detail, others believe ICD-10 will create massive transaction costs for healthcare providers.
Eggs prices have been rising due to California's poultry cage mandate, the drought, the avian flu and now, more demand from McDonald's.
Whereas we can rank countries' internet access and correlate internet access to economic growth, quantifying the internet /GDP connection is impossible.
Through behavioral finance studies of robberies and emotion laden events like the Super Bowl, researchers show a correlation between mood and decisions.
With the timing of the first Fed rate hike still a mystery, we can use the FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) dot plots to predict when rates will rise.




