Blog posts on economics
2025
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)