Economics at LMU Munich.
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To make sense of the world around us, we draw inference from data.
Can one individual influence how another interprets data by proposing alternative explanations?
I address this question in my job market paper (joint w/ @kaibarron).
Thread⬇️, paper: tilmanfries.github.io/assets…
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🚀 I am on the #EconJobMarket!
📜 In my JMP, I study how choosing a product shapes beliefs about product qualities, using a novel experimental design.
🌐 To read about this project or my work on Choice-induced Sticky Learning and more, visit: sites.google.com/view/gergel…
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One last DP for this week - this time from @tilmanfries who reproduced and extended @lu_butera, @RDMetcalfe, Morrison, and @DTaubinsky (2022) "The Welfare Effects of Pride and Shame".
DP here: econpapers.repec.org/paper/z…
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📈Was bringt Anleger*innen dazu, einer Beratung zu vertrauen und zu investieren? In den WZB-Mitteilungen haben @tilmanfries & @kai_barron die Kommunikation zwischen Finanzberater*innen und Anleger*innen experimentell untersucht. #EconTwitter ⬇️
bibliothek.wzb.eu/artikel/20…
ALT Vorschau des Artikels von Kai Barron und Tilman Fries
- @ptr_andre, @Ingar30, @cp_roth, and @JoWohlfart on narratives about the macroeconomy: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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- Kendall and Charles on causal narratives: nber.org/papers/w30346
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Daniele Caliari and me wrote a piece for the WZB blog on the war in Ukraine and ask if game theory can teach us anything about it.
In the latest addition to our blog on the #UkraineWar, Daniele Caliari and @tilmanfries present three insights from Game Theory which help to understand #Putin's behavior and the current conflict.
📰wzb.eu/en/research/war-in-eu…
This is not to say that this the right explanation of what is going on—game theory provides strategic rationales of certain moves and often that's all it can do.
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Reading early game theory papers for this piece was a welcome distraction from the grim news of the past months. There were a few curious findings that didn't make it into the article. E.g., on Soviet perspectives on game theory rand.org/pubs/research_memor…
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