Economics

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Abbott’s John Capek discusses health care device regulation, transparency, and the critical relationship between physicians and their patients.
Bill Frist
A conversation on health care innovation with former Senate majority leader and surgeon Bill Frist.
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At the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit discusses the financial crisis, leading complex organizations, and the "tremendous uncertainty ahead of us."
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Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Edward P. Lazear puts today's economic recovery in historical context.
Researchers share results and ideas for tackling extreme poverty through innovations in institutions, management, and technology
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A letter by Anat R. Admati and Neil M. Barofsky published by the Financial Times, March 8, 2012
Matt Rothe
Matt Rothe, MBA '07, who watched his family sell their Colorado farm after five generations of ownership, today gives Stanford students lessons in eating smart as sustainable food program manager for Stanford Dining Services.
Kenneth W. Shotts
Elections sometimes give policy makers incentives to pander to implement policies that voters think are in their best interest even though the policy maker knows they are not, says Professor Kenneth Shotts. In general, an effective media reduces this tendency to pander, "but there are some exceptions to this general rule."
Kenneth Singleton
The 2008 turmoil in world oil prices was not caused by an imbalance of supply and demand, argues Professor Kenneth Singleton of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Instead there was an "economically and statistically significant effect of investor flows on futures prices."
Nobel Laureate and Stanford Graduate School of Business emeritus faculty member William F. Sharpe has been honored for the fifth time with the Graham and Dodd Award of Excellence. Established in 1960 by the Financial Analysts Journal the award recognizes excellence in financial writing.

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photo of MRI
Abbott’s John Capek discusses health care device regulation, transparency, and the critical relationship between physicians and their patients.
Bill Frist
A conversation on health care innovation with former Senate majority leader and surgeon Bill Frist.
Ed Lazear photo
Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Edward P. Lazear puts today's economic recovery in historical context.
Researchers share results and ideas for tackling extreme poverty through innovations in institutions, management, and technology
Matt Rothe
Matt Rothe, MBA '07, who watched his family sell their Colorado farm after five generations of ownership, today gives Stanford students lessons in eating smart as sustainable food program manager for Stanford Dining Services.
Nobel Laureate and Stanford Graduate School of Business emeritus faculty member William F. Sharpe has been honored for the fifth time with the Graham and Dodd Award of Excellence. Established in 1960 by the Financial Analysts Journal the award recognizes excellence in financial writing.
Gerald M. Meier
A leading figure in the evolution of development economics who authored books on the subject well into his eighties, Gerald M. Meier, the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of International Economics and Policy Analysis, Emeritus, at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, died from complications of a malignant brain tumor at his home on the Stanford campus.
"If you don't have a high school education in America, you are chained to limited options," Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, N.J., told the Goldman Sachs/Stanford University Global Education Conference.
Costa Rica President Laura Chinchilla
Costa Rica now exports 4,000 products and is working to attract more technology companies President Laura Chinchilla told a Stanford Graduate School of Business audience as the nation broadens its economic base from the focus on eco-tourism.
Streamlining balky government permit processes or convoluted global supply chains are just some of the challenges in the "Valley of Death" faced by fledgling clean energy firms, government officials were told during a Stanford forum.

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Anat Admati photo
A letter by Anat R. Admati and Neil M. Barofsky published by the Financial Times, March 8, 2012
Kenneth W. Shotts
Elections sometimes give policy makers incentives to pander to implement policies that voters think are in their best interest even though the policy maker knows they are not, says Professor Kenneth Shotts. In general, an effective media reduces this tendency to pander, "but there are some exceptions to this general rule."
Kenneth Singleton
The 2008 turmoil in world oil prices was not caused by an imbalance of supply and demand, argues Professor Kenneth Singleton of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Instead there was an "economically and statistically significant effect of investor flows on futures prices."
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Originally published by Thomson Reuters-GRC, June 14, 2011.
In the emerging market for peer-to-peer loans, the auction method used can make an important difference to the borrower, says Stanford Graduate School of Business economist Nicolas Lambert.
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Researchers have demonstrated that personally experiencing something like the Great Depression has a significant impact on how we invest our money.
Text of Op-Ed Published in Financial Times

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