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The revolution that’s been happening in financial services is right in your pocket: the phone that you pull out when the check arrives after a restaurant dinner with friends. Until relatively recently ...

Monopsony The inverse of a monopoly, monopsony occurs when a market has a single buyer. Lack of competition from other buyers means the monopsonist can influence prices or other terms of exchange ...

Knowledge may be power, but information can also be overwhelming. Decision-makers often have access to so much potentially relevant data that they must choose what to ignore. Economists call this ...

Institutions help explain uneven development between countries.Why are some countries rich and others poor? It’s among the most important questions in economics—in all the social sciences—and one at ...

Last fall an artist duct-taped a banana to a wall, and the piece sold for $6.24 million. As an economist who also runs the 800-piece contemporary-art collection at Booth, can you explain what made ...

During the fierce congressional debates that led to the passage of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, advocates and opponents of the proposal agreed on one thing: The once-in-a-generation bill, under the ...

If you’re not sure quite how to peg the economy these days, you have plenty of company among many middle-class Americans working to get ahead. On one hand, jobs are plentiful and growth is solid. On ...

Consumer demand is a driving force of economic growth, accounting for about two-thirds of the US economy. So when policymakers want to determine how a particular fiscal or monetary policy will land, ...

Drug price caps are meant to bring an array of benefits for patients and healthcare systems—improved access to essential and life-saving medicines, better public health outcomes, and reduced financial ...

To appreciate the edge that artificial intelligence can bring to the financial markets, it’s worth understanding how fast the technological landscape has changed for investors. It has been propelled ...

The researchers analyzed how the TCJA’s business tax provisions have performed, with an eye to proposing adjustments that would raise the revenue needed to tame run-away deficits and fund priorities ...