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A 500-level interlude
Today’s post doesn’t deal with baseball or the Canadian federal election. I’m working on an article and question cluster for my Financial Economics course (discussion is tomorrow!) and in order to get...
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The Market for Kidneys in Singapore
Singapore is lifting its ban on compensating kidney donors. Behind the cut, I’ll analyze some of the effects, examine the welfare generated by such a policy, and include a summary in the form of an...
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Afterthought: "Undue inducement"
In the previous post, I mentioned the Singapore government’s fear that too high a level of compensation for kidneys would provide an “undue inducement” for a citizen to sell a kidney. I assume this...
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Arbitration in MLB –"File and Go" and Market Inefficiency
Ed Edmonds at the Sports Law Blog wrote up a piece on Tampa Bay’s “File-and-Go” strategy for arbitration. The blog references an MLB.com article; more information is available at USA Today, but I’ve...
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E-Reader Price Wars
Holy cow… two non-baseball updates in a row! I’ll have to fix that later on. The news all over is that Amazon has cut the price of the Kindle from $259 to $189. By all accounts, this was prompted by...
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There’s been some discussion of the free agent market in baseball and its alleged inefficiency – that players like Manny Machado don’t sign until February and Bryce Harper is still unsigned, for...
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