Having an interpretable dynamic length-of-stay (LOS) model can help hospital administrators and clinicians make better decisions and improve the quality of care. The widespread implementation of ...

Corporate Earnings Data Could Improve State Budgeting Tax projections that include this information appear to be more accurate than current models. By Neil Weinberg June 09, 2025 CBR - Fiscal Policy ...

To help address the rising costs of health care, we conduct a field experiment that aims to reduce the cost of supplies used in surgical procedures. Specifically, we develop an algorithm to identify ...

We evaluate whether and how branded TV product placement affects sales for cigarette brands. We use data on product placement from TV shows and data on retail sales of cigarettes to estimate a demand ...

The bottom 90 percent’s debt has largely become the top 1 percent’s financial asset As US income inequality began a marked increase in the 1980s, the richest 1 percent of households increased their ...

Within months of COVID-19’s first emergence in China, the World Health Organization admitted it was battling, alongside the pandemic, something nearly as dangerous and certainly as complicated: a ...

One might expect that those in charge of banking policy in the United States would celebrate the concept of a “narrow bank.” A narrow bank takes deposits and invests only in interest-paying reserves ...

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 ...

University of Chicago’s Alessandra Voena, Harvard’s Claudia Goldin, and Chicago Booth’s Veronica Guerrieri discuss the challenges faced and progress made by women in economics.

Since the Great Recession, America’s wealthiest 1 percent have been demonized as fat cats who have grown ever richer while the middle class has stagnated. While protesters have called for the 1 ...

You can ponder all the time you spend on these things, and all the great things they do for you that you couldn’t do 20 years ago, and easily conclude that business is speeding up. But if you look at ...

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 ...