Blogs1 - 10 of 472 recent posts for tag:"behavioral economics"
23
Nov
2009
Apple stocks!

7 hours ago by drkinarthy

AAPL shares were $80 a piece a year ago. They are $204 a piece today. Divide 204 by 80, you get a 255% profit in one year! YOU CANNOT GET THIS KIND OF RETURN BY KNOWING ECONOMICS ALONE. Finding the ‘money tree’ in the thick forest of Wall Street requires that you take workshops in ‘Behavioral Econom ...

The Psychology of Investing - eliorkinarthy.wordpress.com

Optin page design – are we in control of our decisions?

11 hours ago by Dirk Tietjen

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Why adding something senseless on an optin-page might not be senseless! Would you want a weekend in rome with or without coffee at the morning? Well before committing to that, let`s talk about irrational behavior of people today. Irrational behavior of other people, of course! Not your behavior:-). ...

The Dirk Tietjen Blog - dirktietjen.com · 1 reference

20
Nov
2009
The Market Value of Social Norms

3 days ago by Bob Nease

Tim Harford takes us on a tour of trust, which turns out to be one of the most valuable side effects of social norms. Some economists believe that trust – defined broadly – fully explains the difference between per capita income across countries. The implication is that 99.5% of our economic output ...

Ignite Symposium - ignitesymposium.com/blog · Rank: 186,055 · 1 reference

19
Nov
2009
writing for myself

4 days ago by knightstango

No more writing class. The job search is heating up, and I have way too many interesting tasks on my to do list. After a great first few sessions, the energy level in class dropped off - even the instructor seemed to lose interest in us. Fine, I’ll let him return to his poetry. I prefer blogging, fr ...

Reflections - knightstango.wordpress.com

18
Nov
2009
Taxi Interrupted

5 days ago by Bob Nease

The New York Times reports on the effect of choice architecture on tips for taxi drivers: The increase in tips, however, may have less to do with New Yorkers’ generosity than with the preset amounts suggested to passengers on the taxi’s software systems. In many of the city’s cabs, riders are offere ...

Ignite Symposium - ignitesymposium.com/blog · Rank: 186,055 · 1 reference

Status Report

5 days ago by Charles

The past few weeks have been pretty interesting. I’ve been updating the identity politics paper, and thinking about how to rewrite it to emphasize identity politics instead of the hybrid of two models. One major problem that I’m running into is that one of the facts that I originally wanted to cite ...

Research Notes - charleslin.wordpress.com

17
Nov
2009
What’s the Cost of an Extra Letter?

6 days ago by Bob Nease

Behavioral economics tells us that people get hung up over upfront costs for downstream benefits. Exercise, weight loss, switching to Home Delivery… all these behaviors offer benefits that outweigh the costs, but only after getting through the immediate costs. But “downstream” apparently doesn’t hav ...

Ignite Symposium - ignitesymposium.com/blog · Rank: 186,055 · 1 reference

Consumer Behavior and Nudging

6 days ago

Just a quick note about a great post today from sustainability writer Marc Gunther. He reports on a conference on behavior and climate change. How to change people's behavior is a thorny problem with no easy solution. But the work of thinkers like Dan Ariely ( Predictably Irrational) and Richard Tha ...

Andrew Winston - andrewwinston.com/blog · Rank: 23,795 · 22 references

The New Interventionist Economics

6 days ago by koppl

by Roger Koppl Two recent posts on this blog ( here and here) raise the issue of animal spirits and where macro is headed. I’ve recently completed a draft manuscript saying we are headed for “BRACE” economics. I say the “New Interventionist Economics” will be characterized by five features: Bubbles ...

ThinkMarkets - thinkmarkets.wordpress.com · Rank: 4,104 · 153 references

16
Nov
2009
What’s for lunch? Behaviorial economics meets climate change

7 days ago by Marc

At the Net Impact conference last week, a waiter stopped by before lunch to ask if anyone at our table wanted a vegetarian meal instead of chicken. Just one or two people did. This, as it happens, is typical. When a meat-based entrée is being served, and people are offered a vegetarian alternative, ...

Marc Gunther - marcgunther.com · Rank: 6,925 · 139 references

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