Some states prohibit mortuaries from offering cemetery services and cemeteries from offering mortuary services. This prohibition is justified as being in the interest of the consumer, out of concern that a few firms could come to dominate the death-care industry. This paper uses multivariate...

A couple of weeks before the 2012 Super Bowl, Andrew Lehren of The New York Times advised fans wanting tickets to be “patient,†because prices in secondary ticket markets tend to fall “precipitously†as the time to kickoff nears. Using data compiled from SeatGeek.com on more...