Economic and Game Theory

I am of the age where my friends are writing their memoirs, so I thought I would take a stab at mine.

In early August we lost a beautiful mind.

Those of us who have analyzed experimental data or watched participants in the laboratory have noticed that while some people seem to be inattentive and unpredictable others seem to be striving to create incentives for good social outcomes.

My inaugural lecture at Royal Holloway.

Lee Ohanian and I have a new paper arguing that appeasement is under-appreciated: When to Appease and When to Punish: Hitler, Putin, and Hamas

Some thoughts about the future of the conflict in Ukraine on the EUI Blog.

In September I am excited to be moving to Royal Holloway University of London to take up a Leverhulme International Professorship.

Our new book available for download: Levine, Mattozzi and Modica study how special interests such as cartels and lobbyists together with political parties influence our well-being.

An interview by Niklas Anzinger about regulation, innovation, and intellectual property

An appreciation of Axel as a man and an economist here.

See the video or read the paper.

Roughly speaking the answer should be "nobody."

A video of a discussion of role and importance of social science data analysis in combating the pandemic at Bocconi.

Peter Hansen and I think not: we have written an essay explaining why not If you agree please share it.

It is all about voter turnout.

The modern field of industrial organization seems to have spent decades chasing itself into smaller and smaller circles while the real and serious problems of monopoly go ignored.

A group of economists and scientists planning how to get us out of this mess.

Added a command line switch -ico which uses text labels in buttons as a workaround for a broken java installation on chromebooks.

An essay detailing my conclusions from reading the economic literature on climate change.

With James Corbett of the corbettreport

and peace?

An economist speaks (me) .

An article Newsweek about the concept and benefits of open patents: "open patents could bring monetary gain sooner.

As told to some fellow UCLA alums

A new essay Confirmatory Bias, the Bayesian Detective and an Inconvenient Truth

We have a new website about the perils of populism discussing our research on democracy, corruption, lobbying and the behavior of political groups and how it may help.

I do not expect polls or pundits to predict elections.

An interview with Federico Weinschelbaum about our paper Levine, D.

A longtime friend and a great economist.

The call for papers is out

For economists concerned about Elsevier taking over SSRN and wishing to archive their papers in a repository that is indexed by RePEc (and hence Google): you may not be aware that RePEc has an archiving service the Munich Personal RePEc Archive.

The list of books we have been reading in our reading group.

My remarks last year when Jean received the honorary doctorate from the EUI.

Pointed the documentation to the correct site and fixed a bug that made it impossible to choose your browser in the jarnalshell.conf file.

In rough chronological order, the delusionists: Poor Brad - thieves believe everyone is a thief, those incapable of rational reasoning believe nobody can reason rationally.

Explained here

An NPR program on patents based on an interview with Michele and me.

If you are a fan of classroom experiments, you should take a look at Walter Yuan's Walter wrote most of the software for SSEL and CASSEL and with a lot of input from top experimentalists has designed some really good classroom software.

Nicolas Gruyer has a very nice site with games you can use for economics in your classroom.

Updated jarnal.sh and jarnalannotate.sh in the install file to run from any starting directory properly accounting for symbolic links.

To use this version you need the command line switch --legacy.

Can we explain the world by extractive and inclusive political institutions?

Now available everywhere From Openbook Publishers - a new open access book about traditional and behavioral economics.

When the file is saved all the text in the file is saved in a separate document alltext.txt within the zipfile.

Add commands and command line switches for making presentations using the collaborative features.

Major changes: tabbed interface (set tabs=true in jarnalshell.conf) and recent files list (set keepbookmarks=integer > 0 in jarnalshell.conf).

Replaces most of the large icons (in "netbook" mode) with something more decent looking.

NEW: Chapter 8 and 9 posted.

White papers by economists about the future of economics.

Implements touch scrolling.