Showing posts with label MIIS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MIIS. Show all posts
Thursday, April 16, 2020

16/4/20: The BRICS+ challenge to institutional unipolarity and U.S. hegemony 2020 Lecture

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My slides from the talk I gave yesterday to the MA in Non-Proliferation and Terrorism Studies students @MIIS on the COVID-updated topic of...
Friday, January 11, 2019

11/1/19: A Behavioral Experiment: Irish License Plates and Household Demand for Cars

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While a relatively well known and understood fact in Ireland, this is an interesting snapshot of data for our students in Behavioral Finan...
Thursday, June 7, 2018

6/6/2018: Monopsony Power in US labour market

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I have recently written about rising firm power in labour markets, driven by monopsonisation of the markets thanks to the continued develo...
Wednesday, May 23, 2018

23/5/18: Contingent Workforce, Online Labour Markets and Monopsony Power

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The promise of the contingent workforce and technological enablement of ‘shared economy’ is that today’s contingent workers and workers us...
Sunday, November 19, 2017

19/11/17: The Next Global Financial Crisis

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My column for Cayman Financial Review on how the stage has been now set for the next Global Financial Crisis is available at  http://www.c...
Monday, October 9, 2017

9/10/17: Nature of our reaction to tail events: ‘odds’ framing

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Here is an interesting article from Quartz on the Pentagon efforts to fund satellite surveillance of North Korea’s missiles capabilities v...
Tuesday, May 16, 2017

16/5/17: Insiders Trading: Concentration and Liquidity Risk Alpha, Anyone?

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Disclosed insiders trading has long been used by both passive and active managers as a common screen for value. With varying efficacy and ...
Thursday, November 10, 2016

9/11/16: Bitcoin vs Ether: MIIS Students Case Study

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Following last night's election results, Bitcoin rose sharply in value, in line with gold, while other digital currencies largely fail...
Monday, May 23, 2016

22/5/16: House Prices & Household Consumption: From One Bust to the Other

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In their often-cited 2013 paper, titled “Household Balance Sheets, Consumption, and the Economic Slump” (The Quarterly Journal of Economic...
Sunday, May 22, 2016

22/5/16: Lying and Making an Effort at It

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Dwenger, Nadja and Lohse, Tim paper “ Do Individuals Put Effort into Lying? Evidence from a Compliance Experiment ” (March 10, 2016, CESif...

21/5/16: Manipulating Markets in Everything: Social Media, China, Europe

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So, Chinese Government swamps critical analysis with ‘positive’ social media posts, per Bloomberg report: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/ar...

21/5/16: Banks Deposit Insurance: Got Candy, Mate?…

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Since the end of the [acute phase] Global Financial Crisis, European banking regulators have been pushing forward the idea that crisis res...

21/5/16: Voters selection biases and political outcomes

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A recent study based on data from Austria looked at the impact of compulsory voting laws on voter quality. Based on state and national e...
Saturday, May 21, 2016

20/5/16: Business Owners: Not Great With Counterfactuals

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A recent paper, based on a “survey of participants in a large-scale business plan competition experiment, [in Nigeria] in which winners re...