When times are tough, we often look to family. Research suggests lenders do likewise: family-owned businesses paid significantly less for debt than nonfamily firms when credit was difficult to secure.

How the gambler’s fallacy causes bad decisions.

Research indicates that cash still beats out credit when there’s enough cash in a consumers’ pocket to cover the bill.

Chicago Booth’s Anita Rao and Stanford’s Wesley R. Hartmann use demographic data to figure out if moviegoers prefer bigger screens or more choices.

Professor Richard Thaler examines the evolution of economics.

How knowledge workers are reshaping the map of the global economy.

The coming revolution in data analysis.

Chicago Booth’s Jane Risen studies Seeds of Peace, a Middle East coexistence program that brings together Israeli and Palestinian teenagers every year for three weeks in rural Maine.