Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. James Broughel is an economist focused on the economics of regulation. In the complex world of regulatory cost-benefit analysis, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. She writes about strategic financial issues in higher education. Beyond the average tuition discount rate, schools are providing ...

The average discount rate at private colleges topped 50 percent this past academic year, according to a new study from the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO).

Massachusetts has some of the highest electric rates in the country, and every year, many residents struggle to pay their utility bills. To help to make energy more affordable, utilities offer ...

The share of mortgage borrowers paying discount points doubled from 2021 through 2023, with the increase larger among consumers with lower credit scores, a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau study ...

Tuition discounting is a tactic private colleges have long used to control a primary revenue stream. But over the past decade, an increasingly precarious financial picture—driven in part by stagnating ...

Aug 27 (Reuters) - Members of the boards of directors overseeing the Chicago and New York Federal Reserve banks voted in favor of lowering by a quarter percentage point the central bank’s discount ...

We show that firms' nominal required returns to capital (i.e., their discount rates) are sticky with respect to expected inflation. Such nominally sticky discount rates imply that increases in ...