Economics

Professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld recently assembled a group of business and political leaders from Mexico and the United States to discuss the state of the strained but critical relationship between the two countries.

Immigration can help economies become more dynamic and efficient, but inclusive policies often create political landmines. How are countries around the world handling the challenge?

Yale's Robert J. Shiller writes that Donald Trump offered voters the promise of control over their own economic destinies. But it won't be easy for him to deliver.

Research shows that limiting enforcement of non-compete agreements encourages entrepreneurship and economic growth.

Yale SOM’s Lisa Kahn on the revolutionary shift in labor markets as automation and offshoring reshape work as we’ve known it.

Yale’s Robert J. Shiller considers how slow wage growth and economic inequality may provide the fuel for the rise in ethnic nationalism across many countries.

Diversification means that in many industries, companies are owned by an overlapping set of investors, reducing their incentive to compete.

Professor Fiona Scott Morton, the former chief economist in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, on the state of global competition law.

Yale’s Zack Cooper discusses new findings on what drives the high costs of healthcare and how to rein them in.

Choosing a mate is a calculation that the benefits of further search are outweighed by the costs, says Paul Oyer ’89.