Follies of Infrastructure: Why the Worst Projects Get Built, and How to Avoid It Bent Flyvbjerg
25 Jul 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of bureaucracy, industrial organisation, managerial economics, organisational economics, Public Choice, survivor principle, transport economics, urban economics Tags: entrepreneurship, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Best bets for public investment: Infrastructure keynote and discussion
13 Jul 2021 Leave a comment
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Luke Froeb The One Lesson of Business
26 Jun 2021 Leave a comment
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A Quarter Century of ‘The Proper Scope of Government’: Theory and Applications | Oliver Hart
09 Jun 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Armen Alchian, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, entrepreneurship, financial economics, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, managerial economics, market efficiency, organisational economics, privatisation, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, Ronald Coase, survivor principle, theory of the firm, transport economics, urban economics
How do you align the incentives of sea captains transporting criminals to Australia with those of the public?
06 Jun 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Armen Alchian, comparative institutional analysis, economics of information, financial economics, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, market efficiency, organisational economics, personnel economics, property rights, Ronald Coase, survivor principle, theory of the firm Tags: adverse selection, asymmetric information, incentive compatibility, moral hazard
Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, and Steven Davis: Will working from home stick
19 Mar 2021 Leave a comment
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CEOs take most of their labour surplus with them
26 Feb 2021 Leave a comment
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John D. Rockefeller: The American Oil Magnate
25 Feb 2021 Leave a comment
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Steven J. Davis — “Some Economic Implications of COVID-Related Shocks”
30 Jan 2021 Leave a comment
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Patient choice saves lives
27 Jan 2021 Leave a comment
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German Army: Why No Collapse?
24 Jan 2021 Leave a comment
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Fama and Jensen explain governance
10 Jan 2021 Leave a comment
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Oklahoma Doctors vs. Obamacare
03 Dec 2020 Leave a comment
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