Blog posts on economics

2024

• A model of self-sabotage (Nov 14)
• What is an “economic model?” (Aug 13)
• Learning about a changing state (Jan 8)

2023

• The option value of waiting (Jul 16)
• Paying for precision (Jul 4)
• Binary signals and posterior variances (Jul 2)
• Learning and persuasion (Jan 8)
• Protecting Planet Xiddler (Jan 7)
• Learning from opinions (Jan 6)

2022

• Optimal pacing with random energy costs (Dec 12)
• Optimal pacing with varying energy costs (Dec 11)
• Binary distributions and risky gambles (Nov 13)
• Why do experts give simple advice? (Sep 25)
• Paying for the truth (Sep 1)
• Research incentives and the evolution of knowledge (Jul 22)
• Truth-seekers and ideologues (Jul 18)
• Echo chambers can be useful (Apr 8)
• Tolerance and compromise in social networks (Apr 1)
• Persuading with anecdotes (Mar 18)
• Communicating science (Feb 23)

2021

• Stable matchings with correlated preferences (Nov 19)
• A competition model of corruption (Oct 12)
• Dead ends (Jul 28)
• Rationalizing negative splits (May 18)
• Stable matchings with noisy preferences (May 2)
• Stable matchings (Apr 19)
• Monopoly equilibrium in insurance markets (Feb 19)

2020

• Auctioning vaccines (Dec 17)
• Gift exchange mechanisms (Dec 13)
• Relatedness, complexity and local growth redux (Sep 10)
• COVID-19, lockdown and two-sided uncertainty (Aug 21)
• Policymaking under uncertainty (May 17)
• Insurance and saving (Apr 3)
• Optimal training loads (Mar 30)
• Matching runners (Mar 21)
• Spotify Premium pricing (Mar 17)

2019

• White elephant gift exchanges (Dec 11)
• Climate change and transport planning (Nov 6)
• Relatedness, complexity and local growth (Apr 2)