Showing posts with label behavioral economics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label behavioral economics. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Danny Kahneman (1934-2024)

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  Danny Kahneman passed away today. Here's the Washington Post obituary: Daniel Kahneman, Nobel-winning economist, dies at 90. He found...
Friday, December 22, 2023

Decline and decay of nudges

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  Here's the latest paper to suggest that small "nudges" can have much less of a lasting effect than was initially thought. Th...
Sunday, September 10, 2023

Nudges, shoves, regulations and designs: debate in Behavioral and Brain Sciences

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Do "nudges" provide low cost solutions to big economic problems? Are they crowding out more effective, but harder or more expensiv...
Thursday, June 16, 2022

Behavioral economics and market design are quite different -- Nick Chater and George Loewenstein reflect

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 Experimental economics is one of the empirical foundations of what we now call behavioral economics.  Market design sometimes depends on ex...
Tuesday, December 28, 2021

SMBC on economists and money (and game theory)

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  Here's Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal on economists:  https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/econs And it's a two-fer, economists ar...
Friday, May 22, 2020

What makes a market transaction morally repugnant? by Leuker, Samartzidis, and Hertwig

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Here's a new working paper on repugnance, from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. What makes a market transact...
Sunday, April 12, 2020

Behavioral Economics, Computation, and Game Theory, all in Budapest in July, or online...

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Here's the (appropriately cautious) announcement: Behavioral EC '20 2nd Workshop on Behavioral Economics and Computation The 2...
Sunday, March 22, 2020

School choice without the assumption of full-information equilibrium by Kapor, Neilson and Zimmerman

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Forthcoming in the AER: Heterogeneous Beliefs and School Choice Mechanisms By Adam J. Kapor and Christopher A. Neilson and Seth D. Zimmer...
Wednesday, May 8, 2019

David Kreps on Behavioral Economics (Nemmers Prize Lecture)

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David Kreps won the 2018 NEMMERS PRIZE IN ECONOMICS , and today, at Northwestern, he is giving his NEMMERS PRIZE LECTURE EVENT DET...
Monday, January 28, 2019

School choice in New Haven: studied by Kapor, Neilson and Zimmerman and switching from immediate to deferred acceptance

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The New Haven Independent reports on efforts to change school choice there: Profs Tapped To Fix School-Choice Lottery "Would knowin...
Monday, October 8, 2018

2018 Exeter Prize to Shengwu Li (and a very strong shortlist)

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On a day when it's likely that another prize in Economics will be announced (but before it has been), I'm happy to note the followi...
Thursday, August 9, 2018

Welfare in a behavioral world

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This is a behavioral economics intensive week at Stanford, with the experimental SITE session just ended, and the Psychology and Economics...
Saturday, July 7, 2018

Tsinghua Conference on Behavioral, Experimental and Theoretical Economics (BEAT), July 9-10

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Tsinghua Conference on Behavioral, Experimental and Theoretical Economics ( Tsinghua BEAT 2018 ) July 9-10, 2018 Keynote speaker...