The short answer is in fact a question: “Why not?” Or more pertinently, we should be asking why we are asking this question at all. For starters, it is not quite fair to group all venture capitalists together, nor does it really make sense doing the same for open source projects. Open source business models [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Economics’
July 31, 2003
Making Sense of SARS
I’m in the middle of a SARS epidemic in Toronto, though things are looking more under control now. In the meantime, this article of mine has just been published. SARS has made thousands of people around the world sick, and has killed hundreds. But are fears of contracting SARS greatly overblown? The alarm that is [...]
April 20, 2003
A network model of education?
I’ve decided to do something experimental for this development economics paper I have to submit towards my master’s degree. I’m going to look at education as a network good. By network good, I mean that it exhibits network effects and externalities, and becomes more valuable to any particular user when there are more users on [...]
December 4, 2002
Guys, doing housework increases your bargaining power in your relationship
I’ve been doing this econometric study that operationalizes Nash bargaining. The topic is bargaining power between married spouses. And guess what? Interesting results obtained include the positive effect on the husband’s bargaining power within the family with increased housework contribution, and higher net family welfare with increased participation in the labour force of the wife. [...]
