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Podcasts episode·Apr 1, 2025

Crypto’s Fatal Flaw: Trust, Scale, and the Economics of Blockchain

Tess Vigeland and Eric Budish
Crypto’s most groundbreaking innovation, permissionless consensus, may also be its greatest vulnerability. In this episode, Chicago Booth economist Eric Budish...
Topics: Financial Markets, Technology & Innovation
Research Briefs·Nov 11, 2024

Carbon Burden

Lubos Pastor, Robert F. Stambaugh, and Lucian A. Taylor
The US corporate sector’s “carbon burden” (the present value of social costs of its future carbon emissions) is 131% of...
Topics: Energy & Environment
Podcasts episode·Oct 29, 2024

Economics Meets Ecology: The Huge Costs of Ecosystem Declines

Tess Vigeland and Eyal Frank
Bats are considered a natural pesticide. When they began to die out due to an invasive fungus, farmers turned to...
Topics: Energy & Environment
Research Briefs·Sep 27, 2024

Toward an Understanding of the Economics of Prosumers: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

John List, Ioannis C. Pragidis, and Michael K. Price
Nudging energy prosumers to conserve via a home energy report reduces their energy consumption, with significant variation across seasons and...
Topics: Energy & Environment
Podcasts episode·Jul 9, 2024

The Uncertainties of Climate Change

How can we incentivize the private and public sectors to develop and deploy solutions to climate change, while accounting for...
Topics: Energy & Environment
Research Briefs·May 1, 2024

Access to Credit Reduces the Value of Insurance

Sonia Jaffe, Anup Malani, and Julian Reif
Insurance is less valuable when people can also smooth their spending using loans. Access to a five-year loan decreases the...
Topics: Financial Markets
Research Briefs·Mar 25, 2024

Banks in Space

Ezra Oberfield, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Nicholas Trachter, and Derek Wenning
The banking deregulation of the 1980s and 90s provides unique evidence of the way in which banks set up their...
Topics: Financial Markets
Research Briefs·Feb 27, 2024

A Commitment Rule for Insolvency Forum

Anthony J. Casey, Aurelio Gurrea-Martínez, and Robert K. Rasmussen
A new commitment rule regarding forums for international insolvency would not only benefit debtors and creditors, but also society at...
Topics: Financial Markets
Research Briefs·Jan 18, 2024

Refinancing Frictions, Mortgage Pricing and Redistribution

Joseph S. Vavra, David W. Berger, Konstantin Milbradt, and Fabrice Tourre
Homebuyers who refinance their mortgages more often end up paying less in the long run than those who rarely refinance....
Topics: Financial Markets