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08
Nov
2009
The psychology of bankruptcy: Chapter 7 and 11!

8 hours ago by drkinarthy

As with anything else in human affairs, the first ‘victim’ is always the Law of Parsimony. For the lucky ones who follow my simple investing rules, here is your opportunity to know only what you need to know about Chapter 7 and 11: No one would buy a company (your shares) on the verge of bankruptcy ...

The Psychology of Investing - eliorkinarthy.wordpress.com

Akerloff's "the market for lemons" theory and information asymmetry

18 hours ago by a zoo

В 1970 году Джордж А. Акерлоф* вызвал мини-сенсацию в экономической науке, опубликовав статью "Рынок "лимонов". Статья привлекла внимание к исследованию потенциальных причин, приводящих к фиаско рынка, на которые ранее не обращали внимания. В США Ťлимонамиť называют подержанные автомобили, которые п ...

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Value clarification – High Frequency Trading!

1 day ago by drkinarthy

Not only people who do commercials or tell the news talk much faster than you and me, but the tendency is for humanity to speed up everything until disaster strikes. Behavioral economics says that the faster anyone could talk, the more information he would ’squeeze’ into a limited time frame. In fac ...

The Psychology of Investing - eliorkinarthy.wordpress.com

07
Nov
2009
Impatient Intelligence

1 day ago by Vishal

Jack is looking at Anne, but Anne is looking at George. Jack is married, but George is not. Is a married person looking at an unmarried person? (a) Yes (b) No (c) Can not be determined *** If you chose (c) as the answer, you’re wrong! Here’s how, and also why: And the answer is the first option. But ...

A Blank Slate - vishal12.wordpress.com · Rank: 199,281 · 4 references

06
Nov
2009
Damn Yankee$

2 days ago by Eric Ferguson

In case you haven’t heard, the New York Yankees defied all expectations this week by winning just their 27th World Series championship. This resulted in much sturm and drang from some people, including a frequent contributor to this very blog, about the Yankees’ seemingly bottomless bank account. Ac ...

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Yale Q6 Fall 2009 Q&A with Dr. Shiller

3 days ago by David

Decades of economic research have assumed people pursue their goals in a rational manner, discounting the effects of emotion, bias, error, and other irrational forces. Robert Shiller argues that economists need to take a closer look at how people make decisions. Q: How important is it to understand ...

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05
Nov
2009
BE-Mail

3 days ago by Julie Adelsberger

Google, a company well-known for its rigorous testing, also offers a couple options to save its e-mail users from themselves: Mail Goggles and Undo Send. Mail Goggles, which launched in late 2008, strives to prevent users from sending e-mails they later regret. It requires users to answer a handful ...

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04
Nov
2009
The Password Is: “Default”

4 days ago by Eric Ferguson

Each day for the past two weeks, my work computer has greeted me with the following message: “Your password will expire in X days. Would you like to reset it now?” My choices are “Yes” and “No.” Needless to say, my morning routine now includes clicking “No.” I will continue to do so until I absolute ...

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03
Nov
2009
Marketing + Psychology = $$$

5 days ago by Elissa Gavette

Chalk it up to naiveté, being new in the world of marketing, but I thought that the important intersection between marketing and psychology was obvious. It’s one of the reasons that advertising and marketing initially appealed to me. But after reading “ Why advertising needs behavioral economics” by ...

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Chicago Ignite Symposium and CCEC Advisory Board Meeting

5 days ago by Julie Adelsberger

The radio silence on our blog is a result of activity on the ground: We’ve been traveling for our Chicago Ignite symposium and the fall meeting of the advisory board of the Center for Cost-Effective Consumerism. Here are the highlights of the events. Ignite Symposium Yet again, latent demand was a h ...

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