by Robert Litan
Fiscal stimulus
Fisher, Franklin profile of
Flash Boys (Lewis)
Flash crash (2010)
Flat tax proposal
Focus groups, business experimentation and
Fool’s Gold (Tett)
Ford administration
Forecasting. See Econometric forecasting
Foundation Trilogy (Asimov)
Foundations of Economic Analysis (Samuelson)
Founder’s Dilemmas, The (Wasserman)
Fracking
Freddie Mac
Free to Choose (Friedman and Friedman)
French, Kenneth
Friedman, Milton Coase theorem and
monetarism and
profile of
rationality and
Friedman, Rose Director
Frisch, Ragnar
Fryer, Roland
Fuchs, Victor
Futures contracts
Gale, David
Gale-Shapley algorithm
Game theory
Gaskins, Darius profile of
Gates, Bill
GDP-linked securities
Geithner, Timothy
General Telephone & Telegraph
General Theory of Employment, Money and Interest (Keynes)
Gepner, Jerry
Ghandi, Jamshed
Gladwell, Malcolm
Glaeser, Edward
Glass, Carter
Glass-Steagall Act
Global Insight. See also IHS Global Insight
Goldberger, Arthur
Goldin, Claudia
Goldman Sachs
Good Capitalism: Bad Capitalism (Schramm and Litan)
Good.co
Google: auctions for advertisements on
A/B testing and
data and
Google Fiber
Google Trends
IPO of
Gordon, Kermit
Gordon, Robert
Gotbaum, Joshua
GoTO
Government. See Public policy entries
Graetz, Michael
Graham, Benjamin
Gramlich, Edward
Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act (1999)
Granger, Clive
Great Depression
Great Stagnation, The (Cowen)
Greenspan, Alan
Growth, of economy. See Economic growth
GT&E
Hall, Robert
Hall–Rabushka tax proposal
Hay, George
Hayek, Friedrich
Health-care spending: Accountable Care Organizations
alternatives to fee-for-service payments systems
Big Data and
federal budget and
Independent Payment Advisory Board
premium-support program for, proposed
Hedging, in investing credit default swaps and
Volcker rule and
Heller, Walter
High frequency traders (HFTs)
High school admission matching system, in New York City
Hirschman, Albert O. profile of
Home-ownership. See Subprime mortgage lending
Honey, Stan
Houston Rockets
Hubbert, M. King
Hydraulic fracturing (fracking), natural gas revolution and
IHS Global Insight
In the money option
Incentive (price cap) regulation
Income taxes
Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB)
Index investing
Inflation: Baumol’s disease and rate of
unemployment and
Inflation impact statement (IIS)
Information asymmetry
Initial public offering (IPO): of Facebook
of Google
Innovation, role of economists and
Insurance, innovative economic ideas and
Intelligent Investor, The (Graham and Dodd)
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE)
Internet: AT&T breakup and
broadband and
retailing and transportation deregulation
Shiller’s prediction of bubble in stock prices
Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC): telecommunications regulation and
transportation regulation and
Intrade
Investing, financial engineering and behavioral finance and
efficient markets hypothesis and
index investing
options contract trading
Glass-Steagall debate and (see also Financial policy, economic ideas and)
Iowa Electronic Market for presidential candidates
James, Bill
Jensen, Michael
Job market, matchmaking in
Jobs, Steve
Johnson, Leland
Johnson, Simon
Johnson administration
Jones, Homer
Jordan, William
Journal of Prediction Markets
J.P. Morgan
JP Morgan Chase
Just-in-time delivery, transportation deregulation and
K Zone
Kahn, Alfred profile of
Kahneman, Daniel
Kamangar, Salar
Kantorovich, Leonid profile of
Kaplan, Steven
Kappos v. Bilski
Kassouf, Sheen
Katz, Lawrence
Kauffman Firm Survey (KFS)
Kauffman Foundation
Kauffman Medal
Kaufman, George
Kauper, Thomas
Kaysen, Carl
Kemp, Jack
Kennedy, Edward
Keynes, John Maynard
Kidneys, market for
Klein, Lawrence profile of
Koomen, Pete
Koopmans, Tjalling
Kremer, Michael
Kristof-Brown, Amy
Krugman, Paul
Kwerel, Evan
Kyoto Protocol
Labor force, growth of
Labor market, matchmaking in
Laboratory experiments in business
in economics
Laffont, Jean-Jacques
Landes, William
Lazarus, Simon
Lean Startup, The (Ries)
“Learning by doing”
Leavitt, Steven
Legal issues, economic consulting businesses and
Lerner, Josh
Leverage: advantages of
financial crisis and excessive
Levin, Jonathan
Levine, Michael profile of
Levy, Steven
Lewis, Michael
Lexecon
Licenses: for electromagnetic spectrum
for mobile telephony
Linear programming: critical path method and
diet problem and
nonlinear programming and
research funding and role of government
shadow prices and
simplex solution method for solving problems with
transportation problem and
LinkedIn
Littlechild, Stephen
Litvack, Sanford
Lo, Andrew
Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM)
Love in the Time of Algorithms (Slater)
Lucas, Robert
Lucent
Ludwig, Eugene
Lynch, Peter
MacAvoy, Paul
Macroeconomics growth in productivity and
macroeconometric models
Macro-prudential regulation
Malkiel, Burton
Manzi, James profile of
Marcellus shale formation
Marginal actor
Marginal costs
Marginal utility
Market design
Market failures: externalities and
information asymmetry and
market design and
natural monopolies and
Market making
Markets, prices and kinds of
Markowitz, Harry
Marron, Donald
Marshall, Alfred
Mass Flourishing (Phelps)
Matchmaking in labor market
market design and
in online dating market
Mathematics, use in economics
McAfee, Andrew
McCardle, Megan
McCarran–Ferguson Act (1944)
McCaw, Craig
McCaw Communications
McKinsey Global Institute (MGI)
Medical residents, market design and matching of
Medicare and Medicaid premium-support program for, proposed
Meese, Ed
Meltzer, Allan
Memos to the President: A Guide through Macroeconomics for the Busy Policymaker (Schultze)
Merton, Robert
Metcalfe, Robert
Metcalfe’s law
Meyer, John
Microeconomics
Microsoft
Microwave Communications Inc. (MCI)
Milgrom, Paul
Miller, James
Minsky, Hyman
MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference
Mobile telephony, AT&T breakup and
Modigliani, Franco
Momentum trading
Monetary policy, economic forecasts and
Moneyball concept. See Sports analytics
Monge, Gaspard
Monopolies: natural
price differentiation and
Moore, Gordon
Moore’s law
Moral hazard
Morgan Stanley
Morris, Nigel
Mortgages. See Subprime mortgage lending
Moskowitz, Tobias
Motor Carrier Act (1935)
Motor Carrier Act (1980)
Multivariate regression analysis. See Regression analysis
Nakamato, Satoshi
NASDAQ
Nash, John
National Bureau of Economic Research
National Economic Research Associates (NERA)
National Energy Act (NEA)
National Gas Policy Act (NGPA) (1978)
National Industry Recovery Act (NIRA)
National Resident Matching Program (NRMP)
Natural gas. See Energy, deregulation of
Natural Gas Act (NGA) (1938)
Natural Gas Wellhead Decontrol Act (1989)
Natural monopolies. See AT&T; Monopolies
“Nature of the Firm, The” (Coase)
Negative externalities
Network externalities
New England Program for Kidney Exchange
New York State, hydraulic fracking and
New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
Next step forward. See Marginal utility
Nextel
Niederle, Muriel
Nixon administration
Nobel, Alfred
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
Noll, Roger
Nonlinear programming
Nordhaus, Bob
Nordhaus, William profile of
Normative economics
North Dakota, natural gas benefits to
Northern Rock bank, run on
Nudge (Sunstein and Thaler)
Oakland Athletics
Obama administration
“Occam’s Razor”
oDesk
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA)
Office of Naval Research
Oil. See Energy, deregulation of
Okun, Arthur
O’Neal, A. Daniel
One-to-many communication
Online markets. See Auctions; Internet
Operations research Baumol and
Kantorovich and
Roth and
Optimal pricing strategy
Optimizely
Options contract trading positive and negative effects of
terminology of
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
Organized exchanges
Origin and Evolution of New Business, The (Bhidé)
Ostrom, Elinor
Out of the money option
Owen, Bruce
Packwood, Robert
Page, Larry
Patents, intellectual property and
Paulson, Henry
Pechman, Joseph profile of
Peck, Merton (Joe)
Pecora, Fernand
Peltzman, Sam
Penn–MIT–Fed macroeconomic model
Peranson, Elliott
Performance optimization: critical path method and
diet problem and
research funding and role of government
shadow prices and
transportation problem and
Perry, George
Personal communications services (PCS) broadband auctions
Person-to-person communication
Phelps, Edmund profile of
Pigou, Arthur C.
Piketty, Thomas
Poindexter, John
Pollution, markets and public policy. See also Carbon taxes
Positive economics
Positive externalities
Posner, Richard
Prediction markets
Premium-support program, proposed for Medicare and Medicaid consumption tax as supplement to
Prescott, Edward
Price controls. See Energy, deregulation of
Price Is Right, The (television program)
Priceline
Prices: auctions and
Bloomberg terminals and
complexities of setting of
learning by doing and
lowered by deregulation
as matchmakers in traditional markets
monopolies and regulation of
sensitivity to and demand curve
set by markets
Privatization, of roads
“Problem of Social Cost” (Coase)
Productivity growth Baumol’s disease and rate of inflation
learning by doing and
Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT chart)
Project LINK
Proprietary trading
Public choice theory, of regulation and deregulation
Public goods, public policy and
Public interest theory, of regulation and deregulation
Public policy: equity-efficiency trade off and
executive compensation and stock options
macro-prudential regulation
market failures and role of
pros and cons of regulation
research funding and role of
theories of regulation
Public policy, applications of economic ideas importance to budget deficit reduction
premium-support program for Medicare and Medicaid
tax on carbon emissions or cap-and-trade system
tax on consumption
Public Use of the Private Interest (Schultze)
Puts and calls
Quest
Rabushka, Alvin
Race Against the Machine, The (Brynjolfsson and McAfee)
Race between Education and Technology, The (Goldin and Katz)
Radio, use of electromagnetic spectrum
Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act (1976)
Railroads, deregulation of impacts of
origins of regulation of
trucking and regulatory limits on
Ramsey, Frank profile of
Ramsey pricing
Random Walk Down Wall Street, A (Malkiel)
Randomized controlled treatments (RCTs)
Rassenti, Stephen
Rate of return (cost of service) regulation
Rationality, in economics: critics and defenders of concept
importance of
utility and
Reagan administration
Real estate prices, Shiller’s prediction of bubble in. See also Subprime mortgage lending
Redistribution, economic growth and
Regional Bell operating companies (RBOCs)
Regression analysis basics and uses of
cautions about
data mining and Big Data
econometric forecasting businesses and
economic consulting businesses and
regulations and cost-benefit analysis of
sports analytics and
Regulations, cost–benefit analysis of. See also Deregulation
Regulatory Analysis Review Group
Regulatory forbearance
Regulatory lag
Reich, Robert
Reischauer, Robert
Research-backed securities
Retirement accounts, behavioral economics and
Reynolds, Bob
Ries, Eric
Risk-adjusted returns, efficient markets hypothesis and
Risk-based bank capital system
Rivlin, Alice profile of
Robb, Alicia
Robinson, Joan
Robson, John
Robyn, Dorothy
Roosa, Robert
Roosevelt administration
Rostenkowski, Dan
Rostow, Eugene
Roth, Alvin profile of
Roubini, Nouriel
RoundPegg
Ryan, Paul
Sabermetrics
Sabermetrics Revolution: Assessing the Growth of Analytics in Baseball, The (Baumer and Zimbalist)
Safety, market failure and market design
Samuelson, Paul profile of