Topic: Economics

Oliver Williamson, 87, dies; Nobel laureate studied organizations

New York Times

An ‘Avalanche of Evictions’ Could Be Bearing Down on America’s Renters

New York Times

Oliver Williamson, Nobel-winning economist who studied organizations, dies at 87

Washington Post

Nobel Laureate, Berkeley economist Oliver Williamson dies at 87

Bloomberg

Investors largely tune out jobs report but Dow closes on a low

Courthouse News

Coronavirus: How one small San Jose business came back from the brink

The Mercury News

Coronavirus Pandemic: Uncertainty over kickstarting the economy after COVID-19

ABC 7

UC Berkeley professor talks unemployment

KTVU Fox 2

MA, CA & WA best-placed to combat COVID-19 with their digital economies

Storage Cafe

Faculty News

How the niche strategy of “carry trading” has come to dominate financial markets—and intensify inequality

Finance

Faculty News

Berkeley Conversations: How can we safely reopen the economy?

Perspectives

US states need federal funding to combat the pandemic

Project Syndicate

‘An induced coma’: How COVID-19 is impacting the buying and selling of homes in the East Bay

Berkeleyside

Research

Research finds which companies’ stocks are more “immune” to the pandemic

Why am I paying $60 for that bag of rice on Amazon.com?

The Markup

California’s closed, Texas open and states go their own way

Bloomberg

The ‘shadow banks’ are back, and still too big to fail

The New Republic

No promise seems to suspend energy market freefall

Courthouse News Service

UC Berkeley professors suggest mortgage crisis may be imminent amid coronavirus pandemic

Daily Californian

Why do gasoline prices drop more slowly than oil prices?

The San Diego Union-Tribune