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Free Public Lecture - The physiology of financial risk taking |
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Written by Douglas Beatton
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 "They were delusional; they were over confident, they were euphoric, they had racing thoughts and diminished need for sleep. I mean these were clinical symptoms."
(John Coates speaking of the typical stock trader during the dot-com bubble.)
Click coates to find out how to attend this exclusive address by John Coates, a senior research fellow in neuroscience and finance at the University of Cambridge and former Wall St trader for Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank.
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So whats time got to do with it! |
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Written by Douglas Beatton
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The latest paper from the Torgler stable is a great read!  Bruno S. Frey, David A. Savage, and Benno Torgler econometrically analyse and compare the Lusitania and Titanic disasters in the context of time, human social behaviours, and, the human 'fight or flight' response under life and death situations. The press loves it! Look at these:
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QUT Smart Train Research Report Now Available |
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Written by Douglas Beatton
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PDF version is available here.
Or an MsWord version of the report with active hyperlinks is available here; in the Working Papers section of the Research Information menu on the middle left of this page.
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Thank You to our Website Developer |
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Written by Douglas Beatton
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A Big Thank You to our Web Developer: getVIRTUAL (Affordable Web Design Solutions for everyone).
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Become a RealWorldEconomics Member! |
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Written by Tony
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RealWorldEconomics.com.au is an online community for all academic economists and post graduate students and is located in Brisbane, Australia. The goal of the site is to provide a portal to the activities of the real world economists with interests in economics, particularly econometrics and applied economics. This site allows us to freely express our opinions, share our research with others, seek the argument and the feedback that helps us refine our work to be the very best that it can be.
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