Sex, Drugs and Economics

Authentic, hand-crafted artisanal blog posts on economics and other stuff. Warning: May contain traces of nuts.

Tuesday, 27 May 2014

Is there a simple trick to reduce over-eating at buffet restaurants?

I recently read an interesting 2013 paper from the journal Applied Economics , by Erez Siniver of COMAS (in Israel), Yosef Mealem of Netanya...

Saturday, 24 May 2014

Is the marginal cost of electricity falling? Some evidence from recent two-part pricing changes

There's some interesting things going on in electricity prices at the moment. On the one hand, we have the Statistics New Zealand showin...

Sunday, 11 May 2014

Pricing at movie theatres still defies logic. Or does it?

This week in ECON100 we are covering pricing strategy. As part of preparing for lectures, I've been going back over some material I have...

Thursday, 8 May 2014

Drinking behaviour, drink driving, and more on the drinking age

I found this article on texting yourself to moderate your drinking behaviour interesting. From the article: A University of Auckland res...

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