…taxes leads to greater investments. But it does not appear to support the theory either. In particular I would ask the advocates of this theory why investment by those subject…

…proxy voting process to deliver these nudges and give the shareholders a say. Here’s how it works in theory: companies assemble proxy ballots and distribute them to shareholders. Shareholders cast…

…out that the available data completely contradicts the theory that the minimum wage causes weaker employment. Moreover, the more data that becomes avilable, the more it condraticts standard textbook theory….

…many different incentives bear on demand, meaning we need to take a deeper look. In Supply Side theory income tax is a tax on work and so serves to have…

…how the lives of others can be strongly affected by one’s own actions. Proponents of so-called ‘Rational Choice Theory’ (first proposed in economics and then enthusiastically adopted by a number…

…current approach to the issue that economic theory would suggest is viable. Or maybe economic theory doesn’t apply? At the same time, how do we know that these contracted prices…

…while he didn’t have a mechanism, the prevailing, er, theory at the time had one. And proponents of that mechanism felt that Galileo’s theory, based on observation, contradicted their mechanism,…

Robert Waldmann Tilman Tacke and I are quite cautious in this paper which does not support my pet theory described in this paper. The stylized fact (which has returned after…

…you consider people to have earned income it is either very very high at 2 am or very very low on weekends. Ooops. Now Brad DeLong had a theory that…

…include the last change in 2006 since it was the rate for the first 8.5 months of 2007): If you make money easier to get, standard theory says that people…