Consumer demand is a driving force of economic growth, accounting for about two-thirds of the US economy. So when policymakers want to determine how a particular fiscal or monetary policy will land, ...

If you want to get people’s attention to address a problem, making it seem as big as possible is a nearly universal reflex. Across more than a dozen experiments, they find that describing how big a ...

Shrinkflation—when companies cut the size of their products but keep the price the same—has become increasingly common in recent years. In 2023, Folgers decreased the volume in its coffee containers, ...

For many Americans, the image associated with “spaghetti” is likely to be a heaping plate of steaming pasta smothered in tomato sauce, maybe with a few meatballs and a sprinkling of parmesan cheese.

Farzana Afrin, Jinhwan Kim, Sugata Roychowdhury, and Benjamin P. Yost, "Internalizing Peer Firm Product Market Concerns: Supply Chain Relations and M&A Activity" (online appendix) (datasheet and code ...

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Start connecting with Chicago Booth's global network by joining a live chat with Executive MBA alumni in India. This virtual session is designed to help you learn more about the Executive MBA and ...

High-quality machine learning models are dependent on access to high-quality training data. When the data are not already available, it is tedious and costly to obtain them. Data markets help with ...

In this paper, we consider a classic periodic-review lost-sales inventory system with lead times, which is notoriously challenging to optimize with a wide range of real-world applications. We consider ...

What is the appropriate function for a firm? How do mandatory social responsibility disclosures affect the safety of mine workers? These are some of the questions that Chicago Booth scholars have ...