An Inadvertent Test of Home-Field Advantage in the NFL
Back when I was a graduate student, we did our econometrics assignments on punch cards and submitted the “jobs” to a computer desk. We were …
Who wants to be a millionaire?
There is a game being played tonight in which the winning team will be paid $20 million and the losers paid nothing. This in itself …
Myrtle Beach Golf Conference
Announcing the first Myrtle Beach Golf Conference. The following is from an email I received from Andrew Weinbach of the Department of Economics at Coastal …
Referees and the Power of Statistics
We all remember the furor that erupted a couple of months ago regarding the Price and Wolfers paper that found a subtle racial bias in …
The Strike Zone as a Probability Density Function
The strike zone in baseball is supposed to be the area above the plate and between the batter’s armpits and knees. Seems simple enough, but …
About that economic impact…
Shocking news in a front page article in today’s Washington Post: There aren’t many tourists in Beijing this month. “Business is worse than at this …
What’s the Effect of Changing Coaches in CFB?
Joker Phillips of Kentucky is already on his way out and Derek Dooley of Tennessee has a warm behind and is squarely on the hot …
Pricing Strategies: Apple & WKU
On the Freakonomics blog, Steve Levitt writes about Apple’s i-Phone pricing strategy — start high ($599) and come down ($399 two months later). As he …
Division III Schools Look at the Academic Performance of Their Athletes
Unlike the other divisions in NCAA competition, Division 3 schools like Washington University and the University of Chicago, two schools with excellent economics programs, do …
Hot Loonie Observations
Thanks to Brad Humphreys for his post below on exchange rates and franchise values. There has been a plethora of “hot Loonie” articles lately. And …