Coase, Moneyball, and Transaction Costs
Adam Yu has written a wonderfully titled essay, “The Coase Theorem Meets Moneyball.” It won the Milton Friedman prize at the Chicago Graduate School of …
Adam Yu has written a wonderfully titled essay, “The Coase Theorem Meets Moneyball.” It won the Milton Friedman prize at the Chicago Graduate School of …
The NBA’s collective bargaining agreement expires at the end of June. David Stern (NBA commissioner) and the union head, Billy Hunter, are making concilliatory gestures …
With all of my attention devoted to the World Cup coverage in June, I passed over an interesting piece from the weekend edition (June 24) …
It isn’t the game so much as the ambience.
Officials of NCAA Division II college programs were recently worried about having too many members. Now they are worried that too many are leaving D2. …
With the advent of the internet, 24/7 sports channels, and the NFL Network, media coverage leading up to the NFL now rivals the playoffs. Here …
If you are a fan of game theory (or even if you’re not), you probably loved last night’s BCS game of Boise State against Oklahoma. …
As the Fighting Irish slip from mediocre to bad, here is little data comparison of Charlie Weis and Ty Willingham (courtesy of my sports econ …
While New Orleans festers, life in the NFL goes on. The NFL’s Official Website, while mentioning the problems and “heavy hearts” of the club, did …
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