Showing posts with label behavioural economics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label behavioural economics. Show all posts
Saturday, November 24, 2018

24/11/18: Wisdom of Crowds, Meta-Knowledge and Behavioral Biases in Scalable Data

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Social networks: scale, biases and the notion of the 'wisdom of crowds'... Here are my lecture notes from the Behavioral Finance a...
Tuesday, September 20, 2016

19/9/16: Big Data Biases?

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A very interesting, and broad (compared to our more statistics-specific discussions in MBAG 8541A) topic is touched in this book:  http://...
Saturday, June 18, 2016

18/6/16: Retail At Google Conference: June 2016

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My slides from this week's presentation at Google Retail conference: ...
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...
Saturday, December 19, 2015

19/12/15: Another Un-glamour Moment for Economics

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Much of the current fascination with behavioural economics is well deserved - the field is a tremendously important merger of psychology...
Sunday, October 4, 2015

4/10/15: Data is not the end of it all, it’s just one tool...

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Recently, I spoke at a very interesting Predict  conference, covering the issues of philosophy and macro-implications of data analytics in...
Thursday, September 17, 2015

17/9/15: Predict Conference: Data Analytics in the Age of Higher Complexity

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This week I spoke at the Predict Conference on the future of data analytics and predictive models. Here are my slides from the presentatio...
Friday, October 24, 2014

24/10/2014: Behavioural Political Economy

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A very interesting survey paper on the topic of behavioural drivers of political economy by Schnellenbach, Jan and Schubert, Christian, ti...
Thursday, April 3, 2014

3/4/2014: Reforming Economics? Try Politics First...

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This is an unedited version of my article for Village Magazine , February 2014 The Global Financial Crisis and the Great Recession are...
Thursday, January 2, 2014

2/1/2014: Markets, Invisible Hand & Social Ethics

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A fascinating paper on the role that markets may play in influencing our social values and shaping our social ethics. Bartling, Björn and ...
Thursday, November 7, 2013

7/11/2013: Taxation and Human Capital: Blundel's Thoughts

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A recent paper from Richard Blundel, titled “Taxation of Earnings: the impact on labor supply and human capital” (Becker Friedman Institut...