📢 Big news: We are delighted to welcome Robert Slonim as a newly appointed Professor of the Economic Department. Welcome Bob! #ExperimentalEconomics #BehaviouralEconomics

An engaging chat with ABC Life Matters' Hilary Harper and Paul Benson brightened-up my Sydney lockdown morning: From 'finfluencers' to crypto: First-time investors get financially savvy abc.net.au/radionational/… UTS Business School UTS Economics Department UTS Finance Department Centre for Livelihoods and Wellbeing UTS

How are #emergingtechnologies shaping our society? Join us on Friday afternoon as the UTS Centre for Livelihoods and Wellbeing Centre for Livelihoods and Wellbeing explores the intersections between #technology, #participation & #civilsociety. Detail here: uts.edu.au/about/uts-busi…

Looking forward to our Centre for Livelihoods and Wellbeing inaugural webinar on Friday 3pm AEDT, including conversations with @patricklolivier Prof Simon Darcy and Sajal Roy about livelihoods, technology, participation and civil society. All welcome. Registration details here: uts.edu.au/about/uts-busi…

In 2021 we said goodbye to the great Australian economist Geoff Hardcourt, a leading advocate for the Post-Keynesian school of economics, a key figure in the Cambridge School & an expert in capital theory. Here’s a lovely tribute to him by Tim Harcourt. smh.com.au/national/emine…

Gary Charness and Mark Pingle just released a really interesting book, titled "The Art of Experimental Economics Past Present and Future." At the recent ESA meetings, I was part of a panel to talk about the book and the future of the experimental approach. youtube.com/watch?v=xTwvvV…

How #COVID19 changed the way we #shop – and what to expect in 2022 and beyond theconversation.com/how-covid-19-c… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

Lionel Page, Lionel Page, is joining Maria Bigoni and Dirk Engelmann as Editor of the Journal of the Economic Science Association! With three editors we expect to lower further one of the fastest decision processes in economics. springer.com/journal/40881

Looking forward to our SABE session at the ASSA meetings - starting in half an hour! Behavior versus Policy through Pandemics and Crises Michelle Baddeley Valerio Capraro CHERE UTS Lionel Page UTS Business School UTS Economics Department #ASSA2022 #SABE #COVID19

For the SABE ASSA meetings and background papers from Valerio Capraro Lionel Page Michelle Baddeley see 2020 COVID18 Special Issues sabeconomics.org/jbep/jbep-5-s1/

Nudges: four reasons to doubt popular technique to shape people's behaviour theconversation.com/nudges-four-re… via The Conversation

Fascinating paper on the history of Behavioural Economics. It shows how the field progressively split in different subfields: social preferences, risk & uncertainty, time prefces… by @alxndr_trc 👇 Citation networks in the 1980s (left) vs 2000s (right) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

South Australia breaks record by running for a week on renewable energy smh.com.au/environment/cl…

(The most social) bird of the year: why superb fairy-wren societies may be as complex as our own theconversation.com/the-most-socia… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

TRUE or FALSE? #Google trends can be used to investigate the #unemployment effects of #Covid_19. Answer: sabeconomics.org/wordpress/wp-c… Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy Blog: yilmazkuday.blogspot.com/2020/03/corona… #EconTwitter #economics #economy #Econometrics #tradetwitter #Corona #coronavirus #COVID19 #Policy FIU Green School

Looking forward to the SABE conference! - wonderful line-up of speakers in a glorious part of the world. Registration and other details here: sabe2022.com SABE

A friend’s msg re behavioural economics & shadow lockdowns. Thanks Jenny Noyes for listening & distilling the essence so well - I enjoyed our chat. Off to buy SMH now😀 ⁦UTS Economics Department⁩ ⁦⁦UTS Business School⁩ ⁦⁦Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy⁩ ⁦⁦⁦⁦SABE⁩ #lockdown

Unexpected advance copies + how I learnt the Spanish for Behavioural Economics (the economics of how we comport ourselves?). Thanks to @OUPEconomics for the translation. A good way to practise some Spanish perhaps... UTS Economics Department UTS Business School SABE Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy

This is important. Condemn the regime and sanction the state, but welcome Russian citizens with open arms. Putin justifies the war to his citizens by claiming the West is against Russian people. Push against this narrative and do not give him propaganda material.