One Data Set That Warns Against Margin Trading
As a group, Chinese futures traders more likely to suffer margin call than to profit
A Broader Measure of Value Creation at Corporations
A tool in the debate over shareholder primacy and wealth disparities
Quality and Price: National Pharmacy Chains Benefit Consumers in India
Independent drug stores improve to meet the competition
How Medical Device Makers Reacted to Publication of a Once-Secret Database of Millions of Adverse Events
New product filings to FDA included stronger safety features and larger technological advances
Leadership Matters: Countries Suffered Under Poor Quality Monarchs
Measuring inbreeding allows study to isolate rulers from circumstances
Is Your Doctor Working Under a Noncompete Agreement?
Also: minimum wages and migration, Twitter visuals and stock prices, and penalties for failing to report clinical trial data
Looming Risk to Financial System: $1 Trillion in Commercial Loan Pools
Known as collateralized loan obligations, their aim is actually to reduce risk
Website Search Data Suggests Profitably Reconfiguring In-Store Product Placement
Lots of web searches for laminate flooring? Move it closer to the storefront
Academic Medical Centers Resilient After Cuts
Following Medicare reimbursement rate changes, research actually increased
The Housing Meltdown Would Have Been Far Worse Without California’s Anti-Foreclosure Laws
Restraining lenders saved hundreds of billions in home value
Ditching Small Plastic Bottles — for Medium-Sized — Could Cut Waste
1.8 million tons of PET plastic bottles end in landfills annually
Time: How We Manage It, Value It and Relate to Its Passage
A compilation of research offers a compelling cheat sheet for how to get more out of time
Puncturing the Small-Investors-are-Bad-Investors Narrative
Individuals using the Robinhood trading app appear to beat the market
Consumers Habitually Seek the Middle Ground
Unpublished research shows avoiding the extremes is a common approach marketers need to address
Quantitative Easing Kept the Foreclosure Crisis from Being Even Worse
The Fed’s gambit didn’t trigger a home-price recovery, but research shows it reduced subprime foreclosure risk
Quantifying Team Leadership Approaches: To Do, or to Direct Others?
In a field often ruled by personality, a rational model is proposed