Economics
In your rush to understand today’s stock market numbers or tomorrow’s tax and debt debates, you might be blinding yourself to two important long-term economic trends: the tripling of income over three generations in the United States and the way poor countries are finally also raising their...
Where are the builders of tomorrow’s Africa? That’s a crucial issue for anyone interested in global economic development. It was also the specific question up for discussion at the daylong Stanford Africa Forum held March 2 at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
The answer, at least...
"It sets a precedent that the EU authorities might, in the future, confiscate some of the deposits of eurozone banks."
Darrell Duffie, professor of finance, Stanford Graduate School of Business
On Monday, March 18, as policy makers grappled with Cyprus' precarious financial situation, we asked...
Microeconomics for Managers by David M. Kreps Norton, c2004
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This outstanding text underscores the connections between contemporary microeconomics and business, using full-length, integrated case studies to show prospective managers how economic...
Microeconomic Foundations I: Choice and Competitive Markets by David M. Kreps Princeton University Press, 2012
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Microeconomic Foundations I develops the choice, price, and general equilibrium theory topics typically found in...
Behind the car bombs, drone attacks, and uprisings around the world lies a very old and common problem: how to curb the fear people experience when another social group threatens their future. In recent research, economist Saumitra Jha has found examples where political reforms that leverage...
An educational technologist, a finance whiz seeking to solve social problems, a JD/MBA candidate who is an expert on Jeopardy! bidding strategies, a hedge fund analyst who coauthored a scholarly article on pension accounting as an undergrad, and a math-econ scholar with a passion for...
In 2007, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke famously reassured Congress that the deepening crisis in subprime mortgages affected only a small part of the financial system and would be "contained."
We all know how that worked out. By September 2008, the panic had engulfed not only big banks and...