Ivo Welch

why can't finance be fun?

climate change and economics

what predicts the stock market?

social learning literature survey plus.

views on lecturer Gordon Klein

is there any crowd wisdom?

the best (and easy) estimator of market-beta?

did low market-beta stocks hedge well in market crashes?

did high-beta stocks even outperform low-beta stocks in the long-run?

did real-estate really influence corporate cap-ex?

did companies try to maintain stable leverage ratios?

do many possible action choices render cascades unimportant?

did stocks outperform bonds because they were riskier or longer-term?

could you predict stock returns with dividend-yields (etc)?

can you measure disaster risk in-time? Can it explain the equity premium?

is the real interest rate after-tax unusually low?

is evidence of portfolio reversals evidence of stock reversals?

has in/ex-clusion from the S&P500 changed over the decades?

does your paper or the draw of the referee matter more?