Saturday, November 8, 2008

Academic marketplace

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Tough Times Strain Colleges Rich and Poor "“Budget cuts mean that campuses won’t be able to fill faculty vacancies, that the student-fa...

Pope Benedict speaks about organ transplantation

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Pope condemns organ transplant abuses as ‘abominable’ , the Catholic News Agency reports. (stale link is updated at bottom of post)  The Pop...
Thursday, November 6, 2008

Animal organs for human transplants

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The Times of London reports on hopes of Pig organs ‘available to patients in a decade’ If the formidable immunilogical barriers to such xeno...
Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Market for professors

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A report from Boston College's Center for International Higher Education says that Saudi Arabia has the highest academic salaries, and ...

Gay marriage: one step forward, 3 steps back

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Election day was a good day for studying repugnant transactions, that is, transactions that some people want to engage in, but others don...
Monday, November 3, 2008

School choice in England

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School choice in England is in disarray: schools aren't supposed to be able to use their own preferences to select students, and this is...

Telephone call pricing between telephone companies

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Ever wonder how payments are regulated/arranged between phone companies when you call someone who is a customer of a different company? FCC ...
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The market for science

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The "republic of science" is the original open source public good, and its origins are traced to Renaissance patronage of science ...
Sunday, November 2, 2008

Incentives for students who get good grades

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The Washington Post reports on experimental programs to reward inner city kids when they do well in school: Incentives Can Make Or Break Stu...
Saturday, November 1, 2008

Labor Market Intermediation

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David Autor has an essay on The Economics of Labour Market Intermediation" "One might have speculated that in an era of rapid inf...

The Federal Reserve’s Term Auction Facility

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As the credit crisis unfolded, the Fed prepared to auction funds to banks. Among other design features (such as how expressive a bidding lan...

Credit Default Swaps: reducing counterparty risk

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New York Fed Welcomes Further Industry Commitments on Over-the-Counter Derivatives "The following areas constitute our central prioriti...

Bank secrecy:

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U.S. and Swiss law differ regarding U.S. citizens who keep accounts in Swiss banks that do business in the U.S., and an interesting game is ...
Friday, October 31, 2008

Market for toilets: NYC marathon

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Providing Toilets for 39,000 Runners The NYC marathon is a peak load event: "Gathering and placing 2,250 portable toilets for a one-day...

Piracy

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The LA Times reports: Somalia's pirate problem grows more rampant "Entire villages along the coast now engage in piracy. Unemploy...
Thursday, October 30, 2008

Market for marketing professors

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Dan Goldstein at LBS has published his impressions of and advice about the interviewing process at the American Marketing Association annual...

Market for masseurs in S. Korea

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SKorean Court Rules in Favor of Blind Masseurs "A law that allows only visually impaired people to become licensed masseurs does not vi...
Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Market for elephant ivory

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The Times of London reports on a government sponsored sale of legal elephant ivory (I presume taken from elephants that died a natural death...

Market for bribes and corrupt influence

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A MA state senator has been charged with accepting bribes to influence the issuing of a liquor license. The criminal complaint describes how...

Blood supply safety--paid versus unpaid

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The Food and Drug Administration is responsible for keeping the blood suppy safe. As anyone who gives blood knows, before you can give blood...