How to design Nobel Prize Worthy Auctions? An explainer on Simultaneous Multiple-Round Auctions (SMRA).
Finshots Special-The Winners Curse and how to avoid it? Why Robert Wilson and Paul Milgrom were awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics?
Weekly Wrapup: Root Causes How banks are being nudged into reducing interest rates, the government's plan to revive the economy, Basmati wars, why the rich keep getting richer, and whether the new Motor Regulation Act actually worked.
Weekly Wrapup: Strange happenings Bilateral netting, the Tokyo Stock Exchange, a sanitizer glut in India, stagflation, and LIC's investments.
Laws of Simplicity and Bilateral Netting An explainer on Bilateral Netting of Qualified Financial Contracts Bill, 2020.
Weekly Wrapup: Hidden Motivations The Vodafone Tax Saga, why Adani is betting big on airports, why people are dumping junk bonds, the 30% Google commission, and what happens when things aren't as they seem.
Why is Adani betting big on Airports? Why is Adani betting big on Airports? Can they break even in the airports business?
Weekly Wrapup: Beyond the Headlines We discuss 'Do export bans really work? How banks enable ponzi schemes? Why remittances from Gulf countries have increased? Why Rs. 2000 note is disappearing?
