Canadian Hockey, Sex, and My Golf Game
Related to Skip’s post, how much happiness was generated in Canada by Sunday’s hockey victory? “Thousands on street” in Vancouver (maybe 150,000), Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal …
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 …