And you thought you knew about neuroeconomics ?

Reading a column by someone called Paul B. Farrell on Market Watch, a website related to the Wall Street Journal news group, I realized that what neuroeconomics is to me did not correspond to Farrell’s neuroeconomics. At all. Farrell is mad at neuroeconomists who “promise that if investors, taxpayers and voters simply follow the advice [...]

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Much to learn from neuro-finance?

Neuro-finance is now (slowly) making its way onto the economics curriculum, one instance of which is in Ireland, where Dr. Stephen Kinsella, has included a lecture on it, in his lectures on financial economics. This is probably pretty good news for the neuro-scientists out there, but will it bring new insights, or more navel gazing, [...]

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Neurofinance explained

Here is a video interview of Peter Bossaerts, one of the foremost neuroeconomist around. He specializes in neurofinance, and in this interview he explains the basics of it to Arvetica, a Swiss consulting firm. Bossaerts is indeed based at the Swiss Finance Institute and Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, in addition to CalTech.

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