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Blog posts on economics

2023

  • 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)
  • Dollar cost averaging (Sep 17)
  • 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)

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