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Thanks to rapidly-adjustable websites and apps, airlines can engage in dynamic pricing.

Price Discrimination in the Airline Industry: How Airlines Maximize Revenue Through Dynamic Pricing

Airlines engage in dynamic pricing by charging consumers higher prices when they buy tickets closer to the departure time. Artificial intelligence (AI) allows firms to more effectively engage in price discrimination to perfect dynamic pricing and maximize profits.

Despite being created to save us time, modern appliances do not seem to make us any less busy.

The Paradox of Automation: How Labor-Saving Technology Can Create More Jobs

Almost a century ago, a famous economist predicted that technological innovations would drastically reduce our labor. Today, however, we seem just as busy as ever. Various factors explain why labor-saving tech did not reduce our laboring!

A classic debate over fair pay for labor involves governments imposing minimum wage laws.

The Minimum Wage Debate: Do Higher Wages Boost Productivity or Destroy Jobs?

Minimum wage laws became popular during the Great Depression as a way to protect workers from exploitation. Today, there are many arguments both for and against keeping these laws.

Grocery prices may not seem to be rising. Is it lower costs of production, or is it shrinkflation?

Inflation and Shrinkflation: How Firms Use Hidden Price Adjustments to Navigate Economic Turbulence

To maintain customer loyalty and revenue, many firms are keeping their prices the same during periods of inflation. But they aren't voluntarily reducing their profits - they are reducing product size or quality to engage in "shrinkflation."

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Behavioural economics

Labor Market Segmentation and Internal Labor Markets: Dual Labor Market Theory in Government-Aligned University Programs

Universities align with segmented public labor markets, supplying talent to stable internal government career ladders.

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Nvidia Faces Valuation Test as AI Capex Nears Peak

Even with Nvidia's record revenue achieved in the latest quarter, surpassing market estimates and a very positive outlook for the current quarter, its stock price has dropped since then. The stock has lost 7% in value over the last week and 4.2% since the beginning of the

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Market Reversal Detection Through Algorithmic Forex Bots

Most algorithmic trading systems use highly complex mathematical models to ascertain when a dominant market trend may be approaching exhaustion. Instead of waiting for a sharp price correction to wipe out all of your profits before acting, these types of algorithmic trading systems provide traders with the means to anticipate

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Behavioural economics

Access to Justice and Credit Constraints: Credit Rationing in Personal Injury Litigation

Contingency fees solve credit rationing, financing lawsuits for liquidity-constrained plaintiffs.

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The Hidden Economic Impact of Malware on Businesses

Abstract When a company invests in servers, cloud infrastructure, and workstations, it expects these resources to work for: * Product development; * Customer service; * Profit growth. However, computing power is increasingly being used for purposes other than those intended. Crypto mining malware quietly infiltrates corporate systems. Once inside, it turns them into

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Payday Lending as a Price of Liquidity: What the Data Says About Short-Term Credit

Most people do not wake up intending to take out an expensive loan. Instead, they wake up to discover that their tire is flat, a bill is overdue, a child needs a prescription, or a rent notice has arrived that cannot be paid until the next payday. From an economic

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Behavioural economics

Loss Leaders and Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC): Price Discrimination in the Market for Free Resume Templates

Free resume templates act as loss leaders, cutting CAC while driving data capture and long-term platform revenue.

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The Economic Implications of Making Tax Digital (MTD) in the UK

Businesses are facing new challenges due to HMRC’s Making Tax Digital (MTD) initiative. They can no longer rely on archaic paper records and annual tax filings to meet their compliance obligations. In addition, errors may result in penalties, including fines and additional compliance costs. In conclusion, many organisations are

Foreign suppliers of resources and parts may be less expensive, but more vulnerable to risks.

Supply Chain Resilience and Comparative Advantage: Rethinking Global Trade After COVID-19

Since the Covid pandemic, many Western companies are looking to protect their supply chains from shutdowns and epidemics. Is it worth the higher per-unit cost to buy resources from more developed countries?

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Business economics

Creative Destruction and the Rise of Physical-Digital Advertising: How Innovation is Shifting Back to the Real World

Advertising is shifting from digital-only to physical-digital, driven by Creative Destruction and new smart signage tech.

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The Principle of Comparative Statics in Labor Markets: Analysing the Impact of AI on Employment

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an external factor currently having a major impact on the labour market. People worry that it will swallow up many of the knowledge jobs created over the last 20 years. However, current evidence is unclear.

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Why Crude Prices Are Rising

The current US-Iran crisis marks the most serious escalation between the two countries since America's Operation Midnight Hammer on June 22, 2025, which attempted to "neutralize" Iran's nuclear capabilities by bombing three facilities: Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan. These tensions have pushed crude prices up

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Behavioural economics

Transaction Timing and Option Value: Real Options Theory in the Age of the EUR/USD Live Chart

Real-time FX data adds option value to timing EUR/USD transactions under uncertainty.

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Market Structures and Pricing Strategies: The Case of Amazon in Monopolistic Competition

Monopolistic competition is a market where sellers offer differentiated products with low barriers to entry. How has Amazon managed to stand out in this market? This article will evaluate the strategies they used.

Traffic congestion in cities like New York can cost billions of dollars in lost productivity.

Externalities in Urban Planning: A Case Study on Congestion Pricing in New York City

New York City plans to implement congestion pricing to reduce high traffic congestion. Historically, this policy has been more successful and less restrictive than other congestion-fighting options.

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The Principle of Comparative Statics in Housing Markets: Post-COVID Shifts in Urban Real Estate

The Principle of Comparative Statics examines the effects on a market due to a change in some exogenous (external) factor. COVID had a major impact on the housing market, shifting demand from central city properties to suburban homes (both home ownership and renting).

Crop yields in agriculture were one of the first areas of study in the field of economics.

Diminishing Marginal Returns in Agricultural Technology: A Case Study of India’s Green Revolution

In the 1960s, India and other developing countries underwent a Green Revolution thanks to new innovations in chemical science and agricultural research. But crop yields cannot continue to grow forever!

Price Discrimination and the Airline Industry: Economic Effects of Tiered Pricing Models

Price Discrimination and the Airline Industry: Economic Effects of Tiered Pricing Models

The amount you pay for an air ticket varies widely, based on factors such as the amount of luggage you choose to take, the time and date of your flight, and how full the flight is at the time of booking. This is due to first-degree and third-degree price discrimination.

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Behavioural economics

Two-Sided Platforms and Rent Capture: Platform Economics in Digital Flower Delivery

Flower platforms capture rents by linking buyers and florists in a two-sided market model.

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Behavioural economics

Credence Goods and Post-Contract Verification: Reputation in the Market for Security Services

Security services are credence goods where reputation replaces direct verification in high-trust markets.