What's wrong with vertical integration?

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-24/tesla-battles-general-motors-over-right-to-sell-cars-in-indiana reports that Indiana is considering a law that would make illegal Telsa's current vertical integration. Telsa currently produces and sells cars to consumers. All other manufacturers are required by law to sell to dealers who, in turn, sell to consumers.

Two questions:

1. Is GM trying to restrict entry?
2. Does a law that restricts vertical integration serve the public?

Use a precise bid to signal.

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/when-negotiating-a-price-never-bid-with-a-round-number reports that people who bid whole numbers fare worse in negotiations and attributes the difference to the information about you that the bid conveys.

Who is missing a chance to move resources from low-value uses to high-value uses?

This article reports that items sold by women fetch lower prices than the same items sold by men: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/feb/19/ebay-study-shows-online-shoppers-are-subconsciously-sexist.

Questions, assuming that the premise of the article is true.

1. How could savvy trader take advantage of the price differentials to earn profit?
2. What would happen to the price differential when these savvy traders act?

Bad luck or bad decisions?

https://bgr.com/2016/02/18/apple-product-failures-all-time-lisa-pippin-newton/

Game Theory and the Race to Be the Republican Nominee for President

http://www.investors.com/politics/perspective/bush-cruz-and-rubio-hooked-on-horns-of-the-prisoners-dilemma/

Posts on bargaining for Scarce Resources

http://edlikeseconomics.blogspot.com/search/label/Bargaining contains a series of posts on bargaining.

Polls v Prediction markets

http://news.discovery.com/tech/betting-markets-election-polls-121106.htm

IBM revises its system to evaluate employees

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/jobs/Goodbye-annual-appraisals-IBM-embraces-Checkpoint-rating-system/articleshow/50832717.cms?from=mdr

How do Uber and Aibnb create wealth?

http://managerialecon.blogspot.com/2016/02/should-we-eliminate-middlemen.html