Increasing research impact means advancing scholarship that informs practice, policy, and understanding across a broad range of contexts.
Recent and ongoing faculty studies
- Business-government relations in domestic and international marketplaces
- Choice of location for siting noxious facilities
- Deregulation of transportation: airlines, utilities, and railroads
- Development and implementation of urban public policies, including privatization of services
- Corporate governance issues
- Government funding of public broadcasting
- Government role in Asian development
- Intellectual property and contracting
- Internet and public policy: how government actions will structure the market
- Banking markets: productivity, risk, and customer satisfaction
- Telecommunications deregulation and its impact on the shape of the emerging information market
- Increasing the productivity of public and not-for-profit organizations
- International comparison of hiring practices
Business Economics and Public Policy Department faculty are active in following Wharton RESEARCH CENTERS and PROGRAMS:
- Boettner Center for Pensions and Retirement Research
- Impact, Value, and Sustainable Business Initiative (Wharton Impact)
- Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
- Pension Research Council
- Penn Wharton Budget Model
- SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management
- Samuel Zell and Robert Lurie Real Estate Center at Wharton
- Wharton Initiative on Financial Policy and Regulation (WIFPR)
Research Workshops and Seminars
- Applied Economics Workshop
- Behavioral and Experimental Economics Seminar
- Public and Labor Economics Seminar
- Development Workshop
- Energy Economics & Finance Seminar
- Industrial Organization Seminar
- Micro Theory
For information on principal research activities by faculty and details on research publications see our Research Papers / Publications.
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