<title>Abstract</title> During the spring of 1999, the authors completed a benchmarking survey of 15 economics departments in private universities as part of a strategic planning exercise. All are selective medium-sized institutions that experience roughly the same types of market pressures and compete for the...

The first recording in this contribution offers instructions and tips for making voice-over-PowerPoint recordings. The second recording - an answer to an industrial organization homework assignment about the lemons problem - shows how these recordings can be used to complement classroom teaching.

An economy can produce and consume a fixed-cost excludable public good only if its members fully fund the cost of the good. In this paper, we characterize the entire class of mechanisms for the provision of the public good and its cost that are Pareto optimal among the set of strategy-proof,...

Hierarchical organizations often perform poorly in inducing the adoption of innovations. The authors examine a principal offering contracts to agents who make unobservable effort and adoption-of-innovation choices (yielding moral hazard); who occupy jobs of differing, unobserved productivities...

This paper introduces a strong and controversial point of view, which we believe may help foster debate about a number of fundamental high-level issues currently affecting the financial industry. <p> The Capco Institute is open to controversial ideas. The Journal of Financial Transformation will...</p>