Dynamic Economic Decision Making: Strategies for Financial Risk, Capital Markets, and Monetary Policy

Index

A&P/Kroger

Absolute Income Hypothesis

Alternative paths

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

Anchoring

Anchoring bias

Annenberg, Walter

AOL and Time Warner

Apollo 13

Argentina

Asia:

crisis in

emerging nations of

globalization and

trading relationships

Assumptions

Asymmetric information

Auerbach, Alan

Auto industry:

Cadillac and GM

information and

innovation and

Availability bias

Average expected return

Avery, Sewell

Baby boom

Balance in economy, determining

Bank lending

Barings Bank

Barriers to entry

Benchmarking growth, applications for

Berlin Wall

Bernanke, Ben

Bethlehem Steel

Biases:

anchoring bias

availability bias

confirmation bias

decision making and

decision-making biases to watch

evaluated alternatives and

framing

group think

home bias

illusory correlation

innovation and

mental

normalization of deviance

overconfidence

recency bias

recognizing change as a process

subpar results and

sunk cost bias

BlackRock, Inc.

Blind pool investments

Bonds:

high-yield

two-year government

Boskin Commission

Brealey, Richard

Budget Enforcement Act

Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)

Bush, George

Bush tax cuts

Business model, information and

Cadillac

California Big Four

Canada

Capital flows, model of. See also Global capital flows

generally

impossible trinity

Mexico/Asia/confirmation bias

post--World War II period/economic drivers

Capital flows, poor countries and

Capital markets:

in the 1980s

and allocation of capital

average expected return/variability of returns

credit crunches ...