Content Type: Research Brief
Often Reviled, Short Sellers Are Newly Vulnerable to the Meme Mob
A short squeeze can ripple across short sellers’ positions
Separating Auditing from Consulting: More Complex than it Seems
Market concentration, price and quality drive choice of firms
Borrowings Suggest Small Company Owners Face Higher Risk
Analysis uses business credit card loans to gauge market perception
Market Bubbles Aren’t Entirely Irrational Exuberance
A model examines the relationships between innovation, speculation and market values
Heading for a Divorce? Might Want to Go Easy on Stock Picking
Active traders lose their edge as a marital breakup approaches
Do Money Troubles Make It Harder to Daydream?
Popular notion that the poor console themselves with fantasy is perhaps more a comfort to the rich
On Kickstarter, Beware of ‘Feature Fatigue’
Backers like to offer suggestions to a not-quite-finished product
A Salaryman and a Wage Earner, Paid Equally, Walk Into a Bar (to Volunteer)
Which one walks out happier?
France, Forcing Municipal Mergers, Achieves Growth in Housing Units
Construction permitting power taken from cities that resisted development
Search Fatigue: Online Shoppers Grow Weary, Take a Break
A shopping session may unfold over a period of weeks, not minutes
How Diversified Companies Can Redeploy Workers to Enable Growth
Experienced hands help new business lines find their way
Wage Transparency Might Make Income Inequality Even Worse
Unintended consequences in trying to apply market solutions
State Tax Credits for Angel Investors Backfire
Good ideas may be scarce, capital to fund them is not
Fixing a Food Bank’s Pandemic Logistics Problem
Enormous growth and a redrawn supply chain required a new system
A Survival Plan for the Developing World’s Tiny Retailers
Technology and mobile finance needed as nanostores’ compete against online behemoths
Head Start, the Public Preschool Program, More Than Pays for Itself
Large study sees increases in education, declines in public assistance