Valeria Burdea
@valeriaburdea.bsky.social
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Behavioral & Experimental Econ @LMU_Munich
https://valeriaburdea.weebly.com/
And the implication for lecturers who want to best respond to this strategy is to tell students to expect a test at random dates. I bet they'll love that ๐ค
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Bibles are still pretty common in many German hotels. This time, I brought some competition ๐
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I know Romania's entry at the Eurovision has been a bit controversial, but honestly, it's the best by far (and I'm not biased at all ๐). If she doesn't win tomorrow this game is rigged :P
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CRC Rationality & Competition
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Why incentive-compatibility isn't enough for data quality: Our new online experiment shows that popular belief elicitation methods like BSR and BDM fail to outperform simple, unincentivized introspection.
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Do We Need Complex Incentives for Belief Elicitation Online?
Banko-Ferran, Burdea & Woon: "A Horserace of Methods for Eliciting Induced Beliefs Online" CRC Discussion Paper No. 562
https://190researchblog.substack.com/p/complex-incentives
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Two thoughtful essays about the impact of LLMs on graduate education:
ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...
economics.mit.edu/sites/defaul...
From personal experience I think the self-control problem mentioned in the first essay is very real.
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The machines are fine. I'm worried about us.
On AI agents, grunt work, and the part of science that isn't replaceable.
https://ergosphere.blog/posts/the-machines-are-fine/
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Probably not news to people thinking about this, but it occurred to me there is a risk that as we become more enamored with how much faster we can do all kinds of stuff with AI, we don't notice we're losing some of the joy and satisfaction related to the process of doing some of that stuff.
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๐ข Call for Papers: 2026 Workshop on Cognitive Economics ๐ข We are pleased to share the Call for Papers for the 2026 Workshop on Cognitive Economics, taking place on 24โ25 August 2026 in Herrsching am Ammersee.
2 months ago
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Davide Pace
3 months ago
Last 3 days to apply!
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Brought to you by the reality checks authority...the Dutch ๐
3 months ago
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Happy J Dilla Day to all who celebrate! And if you don't know him it's time look into his work, as he was one of the most innovative hip-hop artists! So much so, that there is a rhythm called after him -- Dilla time:
www.ethanhein.com/wp/2022/dill...
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Dilla Time
I recently finished reading Dan Charnasโ book Dilla Time. Itโs a good one! If you are interested in how hip-hop works, you should read it. The bookโs major musicological insight iโฆ
https://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2022/dilla-time/
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New favorite word: "quaquaversally" (=spreading in all directions). You can use it in the next application for the everywhere-but-understudied economic problem you're solving right now ๐ค. Make sure to add a few duck images to really drive the point home ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฆ
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This makes sense and it's totally insane and worrisome on top of everything else.
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Georg Weizsรคcker
4 months ago
Appeal for more short-run support for ๐บ๐ฆ
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CRC Rationality & Competition
4 months ago
๐ฃ Call for Papers | Riederau Workshop on Peopleโs Understanding of and Support for Economic Policies We are pleased to announce the Riederau Workshop on Peopleโs Understanding of and Support for Economic Policies, taking place 8โ10 September 2026 in Riederau am Ammersee (Germany).
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Workshop Homepage
https://econexperiments.eu/RiederauWorkshop/Home.php
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Jake Grumbach
4 months ago
Keep Minnesota Weird
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Trump invaded Venezuela because he didn't get the Nobel Prize (among other things :) ); now he wants Greenland. I'd say if they give him an Oscar for Greenland 2, he might just let that drop. Look, he can play a very convincing Earth-destroying comet:
4 months ago
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Next time you want to sound erudite, instead of saying "pics or it didn't happen", you should quote รmile Zola
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Next step is to just teach our classes in the gym! Just kidding, this is a very cool study!
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Exercise Improves Academic Performance | Journal of Political Economy: Vol 134, No 1
In a randomized controlled trial, we test whether removal of a barrier to exercise can improve academic performance. We find strong support for this hypothesis: University students who were provided w...
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/738251
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These are the kind of border walls I would support as well!
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5 months ago
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whoever tried to disprove this and failed, could not have known about Strava
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Lonely runner conjecture - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonely_runner_conjecture
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4 weeks to go to the 12-month mark. Oh boy! Are we going to make it? I feel I should start taking bets๐
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I'd say there's a non-zero chance of this happening
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maevey itโs a brand new me, tellinโ everyone i know
5 months ago
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I stumbled onto this article just now, 20 years after its publication, and I'd recommend reading/listening to it not only for its brilliant narrative, but also for its many insights that are still relevant today:
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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Deep into the mercenary world of take-no-prisoners political talk radio
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2005/04/host/303812/
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Monty Python couldnโt have scripted the Deutsche Bahn better:
www.theocharis.dev/blog/kidnapp...
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I Was Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn and All I Got Was 1.50 EUR
A Christmas Eve journey. Deutsche Bahn. 35 kilometers.
https://www.theocharis.dev/blog/kidnapped-by-deutsche-bahn/
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We care a lot about our watermelons ๐
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CRC Rationality & Competition
5 months ago
How information campaigns can fall short even if they successfully correct beliefs: Our experiments show that correcting consumers' large underestimations of which products cause high emissions does not have an effect on their actual consumption decisions.
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Correcting misunderstandings about CO2 emissions doesnโt help to fight climate change
Imai, Pace, Schwardmann & van der Weele "Correcting Consumer Misperceptions About CO2 Emissions" CRC Discussion Paper No. 529
https://190researchblog.substack.com/p/co2-misunderstandings
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Valeria Burdea
Economics LMU Munich
6 months ago
๐ตComing up this Monday! Join us on December 15 at the ๐ ๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ผ ๐ช๐ผ๐ฟ๐ธ๐๐ต๐ผ๐ฝ with
@alistairecon.bsky.social
(๐จ๐ป๐ถ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ถ๐๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ฃ๐ถ๐๐๐๐ฏ๐๐ฟ๐ด๐ต) who will present "Designing Delegation: An Experimental Analysis" ๐https://alistair.xyz/
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Celebrating 10 months today since a paper I submitted has been under review with no word from the editor. I kinda hope to make it to the full year mark now ๐ค
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I somehow missed these memes when they made the rounds, but they're too good not to bring them back, so on the occasion of their 5th anniversary (
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/11/14/t...
) here you go:
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/wp-content/u...
6 months ago
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Where's Waldo? :)
7 months ago
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CRC Rationality & Competition
7 months ago
Dear fans of the CRC TRR 190, Next week, we will launch our research blog CRC TRR 190 Coffee Break! There will be a blog post about our most recent exciting research every day, from Monday to Sunday. Afterwards, we will post every Monday, 1pm CET.
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Economics LMU Munich
7 months ago
๐จJOB ALERT๐จ We are hiring assistant professors in Economics (any field)
@lmumuenchen.bsky.social
@econmunich.bsky.social
Target date for applications: November 24! More info at:
econjobmarket.org/positions/11...
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"the median analysis has about 10% power"...ugghhh
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Quantitative Political Science Research Is Greatly Underpowered | The Journal of Politics
The social sciences face a replicability crisis. A key determinant of replication success is statistical power. We assess the power of political science research by collating over 16,000 hypothesis te...
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/734279
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Economics LMU Munich
7 months ago
๐ตComing up this Monday! Join us on October 20 at the ๐ ๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ผ ๐ช๐ผ๐ฟ๐ธ๐๐ต๐ผ๐ฝ with ๐ฆ๐ถ๐น๐๐ถ๐ฎ ๐ฆ๐ผ๐ป๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ด๐ด๐ฒ๐ฟ (๐จ๐ป๐ถ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ถ๐๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ก๐ผ๐๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด๐ต๐ฎ๐บ), who will present "Divided We Act: Political Polarization, Social Sanctions, and Strategic (Un)Fairness" ๐https://sites.google.com/site/silviasonderegger/home
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Question: under which conditions would it be an optimal and credible strategy for a presidential candidate to run on a platform to reduce their own executive power?
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In preparation for its less humble cousin.
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Past Ig Winners
Igยฎ Nobel Prize Winners For achievements that first make people LAUGH then make them THINK Winners by year: 2025 : 2024 :ย 2023 : 2022 : 2021 2020 : 2019 : 2018 :ย 2017 :ย 2016 2015 :ย 2014 :ย 2013 :ย 20โฆ
https://improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig2025
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๐ฏand this holds not just for books.
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Spending time with the material
Digital reading only goes so far.
https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/actually-readable/
8 months ago
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Of course Tversky paves the road to interpretable AI:
gonzoml.substack.com/p/tversky-ne...
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Tversky Neural Networks
Psychologically Plausible Deep Learning with Differentiable Tversky Similarity
https://gonzoml.substack.com/p/tversky-neural-networks
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In an essay called "To Act As If", Inger Christensen writes "It's nothing new for art and science to operate at the boundary between meaning and meaninglessness." Got me thinking about how the many "as if" assumptions in (behavioral) econ might be distributed around this boundary...๐ค
10 months ago
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After reading the White House letter about the internal review process of the Smithsonian exhibitions, I think I found a way they can legitimately avoid all this interreference: submit one thing of the many requested and say the indexing suggested they were all one and the same :)
10 months ago
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In an attempt to see the glass half full, my takeaway is: keep applying--as early and as often as possible ๐ค
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David Bisset
10 months ago
Why I ๐งก the web.
drawafish.com
Just draw the fish. Trust me. ๐
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I am quite hopeful that these tools will give us more time to think, and to think more deeply
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10 months ago
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with a bit of a delay, since Bluesky's feed is a bit random, but I was there, and it was a great talk! Here's a summary of it:
dennievandolder.com/post/impact-...
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11 months ago
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Valeria Burdea
Economics LMU Munich
11 months ago
๐ตComing up this Monday! Join us on July 14 at ๐๐ข๐๐ซ๐จ ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ค๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ฉ with
@atavoni.bsky.social
(๐๐ง๐ข๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฒ ๐จ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐ง๐), who will present "Tipping in Coordination Games: An Experimental Approach" ๐https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/alessandro.tavoni/en
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There are many good things about learning with an LLM. But one key advantage of learning with other people is that they can ask you questions that make you realize you actually don't know what you're talking about :)
11 months ago
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Georg Weizsรคcker
11 months ago
Humboldt University just won a court case against its own boss, the government of Berlin. ๐ฒ The case was about limited-term employment for scientific staff. Here's a quick-and-dirty explainer, esp. for non-German readers who may be affected. 1/n
www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/frust...
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Frust รผber Universitรคtskarrieren: Gerichtsentscheidung gegen Dauerstellen ist fรผr den Nachwuchs bitter
Junge Wissenschaftler mรผssen weiter auf faire Beschรคftigungsbedingungen warten. Das Bundesverfassungsgericht traf eine negative Entscheidung zu einer Berliner Regelung gegen Kettenbefristungen.
https://www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/frust-uber-universitatskarrieren-gerichtsentscheidung-gegen-dauerstellen-ist-fur-den-nachwuchs-bitter-14007437.html
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I hope the Italians are not too jealous, but ๐บ>๐ค
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