Policy Reports

The environment we describe allows for the free flow of trade secrets among Major League Baseball teams regrading sticky stuff creating an environment that can answer the key overarching question: How do corporations engage in espionage in the absence of restrictions?

The causal effect of financial literacy on financial well-being is estimated to be significantly negative, standing in stark contrast to the existing empirical literature on financial literacy.  In short, more literacy decreases well-being, controlling for a rich set of covariates.

The UT COVID-19 Modeling Consortium model runs into large errors as it forecasts over a longer horizon, especially 15 to 20 days ahead. But what is more concerning is an upward bias in forecasting errors as the virus spread surges. 

The Canadian government announced that travelers approved to enter the country must be vaccinated, and thus this requirement introduced a new element to the upcoming MLB 2022 season, as unvaccinated players would no longer be able to travel and play in Toronto against the Blue Jays. Instead, they would be placed on a newly adopted restricted list and would forfeit salary for missed games.

Initial findings contradict previous security policies, which assumed that deploying higher numbers of drone strikes would degrade terrorist organizations.