The Upshot of Some Banks Paying Higher Rates on Deposits
Also: the kind of companies at which more women advance; reaching the UN’s goals for a better world
To Wall Street, There’s No Crisis Like a Banking Crisis
Tyler Muir finds that neither war nor deep recession darkens investor sentiment like sudden turmoil in the financial system
Whose Job Is — and Isn’t — at Risk From Robots?
Also: withdrawal penalties on bank CDs; breathalyzers and DUIs; and how to manage with fewer managers
Grocery Delivery: Beyond a Gratuity, What Motivates a Gig Driver?
You as a customer can control two factors — time of day and whether you insist on personally accepting the goods — but not the third, route density
Quick Quiz — No Penalty for Guessing
How investors react to volatility, the marshmallow test reconsidered and the role of gender in some career advice
How Local Governance Came to England’s Economy
Nico Voigtländer found that to combat arbitrary taxes and corruption, merchants persuaded the king to cede control
Bringing a Sharper Focus to the Study of the Decline of Investment Diversification
Research measures the impact of global economic factors on returns
Lack of Urgency Can Undermine a Popular Behavioral Nudge
Encouraging pre-commitment to a future behavior helps people do hard things — but it can backfire
How Life Insurers Insulate the Markets from Turmoil
Valentin Haddad’s research finds that insurers’ patient investing shields risky assets — and those who hold them — from steeper declines
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Welcome to UCLA Anderson Review's quiz, in which we aim to extract business and life lessons from faculty research we cover each month.
New Technology Lifted Pay, Especially for the Bosses
Top executives saw much larger gains after broadband adoption than the workers below them
The Strange Case of the Missing Stock Market Return
Investors in leveraged companies take on extra risk, but research indicates they see no offsetting return
Inclusion in an ETF Can Improve the Pricing of Underlying Stocks
It can also help management make capital expenditure decisions
Workers Increasingly Can Tap Earnings Throughout the Week, No Waiting for Payday
Programs make it easier to hire and retain workers; the convenience is typically not free
Medicare’s Money-Saving Treatment Caps Leave Some Patients Behind
Paperwork issues at physical therapy providers curtail care more often for minority and low-income patients
Largest Firms’ Stock Gains Skew Big Picture on Worker-Owner Income Division
Wage earners get larger (relative) share at smaller companies, not at giants like Apple, Alphabet and Amazon