Faculty Viewpoints

In a New York Times op-ed, Robert J. Shiller explains why the housing market “is far less rational than even the often irrational stock market.”

Professor Paul Bracken, a leading security strategist and author of The Second Nuclear Age, discusses the Iran nuclear deal.

Yale history professor Jenifer Van Vleck on the rise and fall of Pan Am and how it exemplifies the tricky relationship between government and the private sector.

The financial singularity, a hypothetical state in which powerful computers direct all investment decisions and financial markets become perfect, will never become reality, according to Robert Shiller.

Experts from the Global Network for Advanced Management weigh in on how the Greek crisis could affect the economy in their respective countries.

Werner Antweiler of UBC’s Sauder School of Business says that Canada’s dollar is acting like a classic petrocurrency.

Professor Mushfiq Mobarak and co-author Alix Zwane argue that discouraging labor migration is not the right way to help Nepal recover.

Standardization. Harmonization. Coordination. They all sound like good ideas. But in a lecture at Yale SOM, Roberta Romano, the Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School, argued that the convergence of banking regulations brought about by the Basel Accords may have had the unintended effect of fueling the financial crisis.

Robert Shiller proposes government spending that inspires a vision of a better future.

One analysis estimated that a smartphone is covered by 250,000 patents. As technology grows increasingly complex, companies must navigate a web of intellectual property protections. Are innovation and competition suffering from the race to create enormous patent portfolios? Professor Stefan Wagner of the European School of Management and Technology (ESMT), a member of the Global Network for Advanced Management, talked with Yale Insights about the consequences of “patent thickets.”