March 7, 2017
Surprisingly significant, the EU's opposition to blue wine reflects how regulation constrains the innovation that creates productivity and economic growth.
February 15, 2017
To find out if a relationship will last, you can ask the New York Federal Reserve Bank about credit cards and assortative mating.
February 13, 2017
When the Netherlands pays for a mother's first week at home after child birth, we get a message about their healthcare coverage.
February 5, 2017
Whether increasing tax compliance or discouraging public urination, behavioral economics can encourage socially desirable behavior with the right nudges.
February 2, 2017
As the early 20th century interior decorator who rejected Victorian design, Elsie de Wolfe also created the first group of aspirational shoppers.
January 29, 2017
Because our avocados, onions, tomatoes and peppers could have come from Mexico, NAFTA changes will mean guacamole changes.
January 26, 2017
When German farmers got a chicken tax to protect them from U.S. poultry imports in the 1960s, the results were unexpected.
January 24, 2017
Upsetting the conventional wisdom, researchers recently found millions of "non-existent" women who could enter Chinese marriage markets.
January 19, 2017
Until Chinese innovation produces better ballpoint pens, the tips for billions of exports will have to be imported from Germany, Switzerland and Japan.
January 8, 2017
Far beyond the change in our spending, a cash free economy would have an impact on our bacterial immunities and our neurology.
December 29, 2015
During the past 40 years, Brazil's fertility rates declined. One cause was the new values that soap operas conveyed to an uneducated rural population.
December 13, 2015
Monetary incentives can influence a decision and distort the information we access for our cost and benefit research.