Tag Archives: Behavioral Economics

Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. I know this week for many of us it’s been hard to pay attention to what else has been going on in the world, what with the release of Stata 15 and all, but I’ll try to help with some stuff you may have missed: The World Bank’s Hedy Sladovich &Emanuela Galasso put together several very accessibly written one-paragraph summaries of recent findings on what works in early childhood development. It pairs nicely with this (mostly...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]I forgot that I had a bunch more videos to put together and post, so I’m trying to get that ball rolling again. (There’s a “Behavioral Economics” playlist so that you can start at the beginning if you want.)

I've been trying to read this. Not a huge fan of the field of behavioral economics (or here; subscription required). Don't get me wrong, yes, it provides some critiques of elements of the mainstream (marginalist) approach, regarding essentially the notion of individual rationality, as did the work of, say, Herbert Simon, in the past. People don't tend to act in a rational way, at least not in the substantive way that is prescribed by the mainstream.Evidence on the notion of universal...

Tired of the disposition effect yet? This one’s short, I promise- just shows how the incentives for tax-motivated selling of losing stocks change over the year and cloud the disposition effect test statistics. As usual, you can see the whole behavioral economics playlist here in case you want to catch up or need a review.

I didn’t tell you last time that the disposition effect result I discussed suffered from a potential econometric problem, so I make up for that here. As usual, you can see the whole behavioral economics playlist here in case you want to catch up or need a review.

In a previous video, my class went over the empirical setup in one of the main papers about the disposition effect in stock-market behavior. Now they got to talk about the results of that analysis. If you need a refresher, you can see the whole behavioral economics playlist here.

In my class, I try to introduce a topic and then give my students a discussion question to work through so I can make sure that everyone is catching on. This discussion question relates back to the disposition effect, or the bias towards selling winning stocks and away from losing stocks. If you need a refresher, you can see the entire behavioral economics playlist here.