Documents tagged with behavioral economics

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Privacy Polls v. Real-World Trade-Offs

Progress Snapshot Volume 5, Issue 10 November 2009 Privacy Polls v. Real-World Trade-Offs by Berin Szoka* A recent telephone poll conducted by professors at Berkeley and the University of Pennsylv...
  • Berin Szoka published this 10 / 07 / 2009
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Forever Blowing Bubbles

A brief note by James Montier on how asset bubbles form in the face of poor underlying fundamentals.
  • edwardnh published this 08 / 16 / 2009
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The U.S. Stock Market Correlated With the Phases of the Moon

Statistically significant correlation exists between the U.S. financial markets and certain lunar phases. Regressions were performed on data from 1988-2008 for five U.S. stock market indices and th...
  • optionmaestro published this 07 / 21 / 2009
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The Psychology of Spending

The Psychology of Spending Kenneth Kriz Associate Professor, School of Public Administration The Role of Psychology in Economic Thought • Prior to 1970 ▫ Very little • Since 1970 ▫ Increasing im...
  • DrKFinEcon published this 07 / 18 / 2009
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The Poker Face of Wall Street

I came across this great Book " The Poker Face of Wall Street" by Aaron Brown. It is turning out to be a great read. Incidentally, the foreword is written by Nassim Taleb. So, it automaticaly becom...
  • motasimahmad published this 05 / 25 / 2009
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Unwitting Errors (free PDF version)

Dialogue between great thinkers helps you too. By Rachel Kaberon. I’m betting that you would love to be able to make better decisions. That if you could really choose, you would prefer to avo...
  • SPmag published this 05 / 14 / 2009
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Cognitive Constraints on How Economic Rewards Affect Cooperation

Ellen E. Furlong, John E. Opfer Psychological Science, Volume 20 Issue 1, Pages 11 - 16 Cooperation often fails to spread in proportion to its potential benefits. This phenomenon is capture...
  • AbnerRavenwood published this 02 / 05 / 2009
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From Efficient Market Theory to Behavioral Finance

The efficient markets theory reached the height of its dominance in academic circles around the 1970s. Faith in this theory was eroded by a succession of discoveries of anomalies, many in the 1980s...
  • ritholtz published this 01 / 04 / 2009
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