Ep28 Incentives and Externalities
Humans respond to incentives, and so incentives predict behavior and sometimes the behavior can be detrimental. In this episode of All Else Equal: Making Better Decisions, hosts and finance professors...
14 Jun 202325min
Ep27 "The Future of AI" with Michal Kosinski
The speed at which AI is getting smarter is on everybody's mind these days. In this episode of All Else Equal: Making Better Decisions, hosts and finance professors Jonathan Berk and Jules van Binsber...
31 Mai 202330min
Ep26 “Investigating Implausible Theories: The Case of COVID” with Matt Ridley
When COVID-19 shut down the world economy in 2020 many wondered where it had begun and why the pandemic had even started in the first place. In this episode of All Else Equal: Making Better Decisions,...
17 Mai 202329min
Ep25 “Bubble Trouble” with Will Goetzmann
Financial bubbles are episodes where the value of something (like stocks, tulips or cryptocurrency) shoots up very rapidly, but then peaks and comes crashing down. The problem has never been seeing th...
3 Mai 202328min
Ep24 “When Institutions Cry Wolf” with Jay Bhattacharya
It takes a long time to build up credibility, but you can lose it in an instant. What would it take to justify lying to the public for their own good, and are the benefits worth the costs? In this epi...
12 Apr 202332min
Ep23 “When Banking Fails” with Amit Seru
The FDIC and Federal Reserve have recently intervened to stop another banking crisis. In this episode of All Else Equal: Making Better Decisions, hosts and finance professors Jonathan Berk and Jules v...
24 Mar 202333min
Ep22 “How Do You Know If Your Marketing Dollars Are Working?” with Florian Zettelmeyer
Note: if you are hearing the wrong audio try redownloading the episode or listen here.What reach does marketing really have? In the murky waters of cause and effect marketers have to figure out where ...
15 Mar 202326min
Ep21 "Disentangling Causation and Correlation" with Guido Imbens
It can be tempting to think one thing causes another because they happen in succession, but there’s a lot to unwrap in the idea of causality. In this episode of All Else Equal: Making Better Decisions...
1 Mar 202328min
