Thursday, June 15, 2023

Game Theory and the First World War

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Myerson, Roger B. 2023. "Game Theory and the First World War." Journal of Economic Literature, 61 (2): 716-35. DOI: 10.1257/jel.20...
Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Mineral and material commodities are essential inputs to economic production, but there have been periodical concerns about mineral scarcity

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Pretis, Felix and Hepburn, Cameron and Pfeiffer, Alexander and Teytelboym, Alexander, Are We Running Out of Exhaustible Resources? (May 24, ...
Saturday, May 27, 2023

Exposure to and engagement with partisan or unreliable news on Google Search are driven not primarily by algorithmic curation but by users’ own choices

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Users choose to engage with more partisan news than they are exposed to on Google Search. Ronald E. Robertson, Jon Green, Damian J. Ruck, Ka...
Monday, May 8, 2023

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion has low correlation with gender and ethnic diversity in the boardroom, in senior management, and within the workforce; DEI exhibits no link with future stock returns

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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Alex Edmans, Caroline Flammer & Simon Glossner. NBER Working Paper 31215. May 2023. DOI 10.3386/w31215...
Wednesday, May 3, 2023

Manager quality in retail is generally hard to explain with the observables in our data, but is correlated with the ratio of full-time to part-time workers

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Managers and Productivity in Retail. Robert D. Metcalfe, Alexandre B. Sollaci & Chad Syverson. NBER Working Paper 31192. April 2023. htt...
Sunday, April 30, 2023

In Defense of Merit in Science

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In Defense of Merit in Science. D. Abbot et al. Journal of Controversial Ideas, Apr 28 2023. https://journalofcontroversialideas.org/article...
Monday, April 17, 2023

Income raises human well-being indefinitely, but the impacts gradually become marginal with higher income; age consistently slashes well-being

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Income raises human well-being indefinitely, but age consistently slashes it. Chao Li & Shunsuke Managi. Scientific Reports volume 13, A...

Participants had better memory for tweets than news headlines

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Memory for tweets versus headlines: Does message consistency matter? Tori Peña, Raeya Maswood, Melissa Chen, Suparna Rajaram. Applied Cognit...
Sunday, April 16, 2023

Harbingers of failure do exist: Their positive (negative) pre-release movie reviews provide a strong predictive signal that the movie will turn out to be a flop (success)

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What reviews foretell about opening weekend box office revenue: the harbinger of failure effect in the movie industry. Pantelis Loupos, Yve...

The origin of pleasant sensations: insight from direct electrical brain stimulation

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The origin of pleasant sensations: insight from direct electrical brain stimulation. Cécile Villard et al. Cortex, April 13 2023. https://do...