A Behavioral Economist Explores Poverty and Development
Pierre-Luc Vautrey, a third-year doctoral student in MIT’s Department of Economics, has five research projects. A behavioral economist, he aims to extend our understanding of economic decisions using psychology. This approach questions traditional assumptions, in order to make outcomes more realistic regarding human behavior. He studies how people form beliefs and expectations and how that affects their decisions.
Lead the technologies of the future. Click to know more about the MIT Technology Leadership Program (TLP).
Related Posts
Financial Reporting Analyst Career Path: Salary, Role and Scope
Know more about the career path of a financial reporting analyst, including their salary, role and scope of the job.
Is Remote Work Capable of Controlling Inflation?
This Chicago Booth Review article examines the possibility that remote work could hold the potential of controlling inflation.
What Factors Influence Stock Returns the Most?
This Chicago Booth Review article discusses what factors that are responsible for impacting stock returns the most.
Which Companies’ Stocks are “Immune” to the Pandemic?
A new working paper co-authored by Berkeley Haas Prof. Ross Levine identifies why some companies are less affected by the pandemic.
Stocks Rise While COVID-19 Cases Rise Too
Preliminary research by Yale SOM’s Peter Schott, the Juan Trippe Professor of International Economics, and three co-authors, reveals that unexpected investor behavior is causing the stock market to recover while COVID-19 cases are on the rise.
The What, How, and Why of Stock Market Crashes
Yale SOM’s Robert Shiller examines how the stock market rise of the 1920s, the crash of 1929, and the Great Depression that followed came to be seen as a tale of recklessness and divine punishment—and how that narrative still shapes our understanding of the stock market, in his new book – NARRATIVE ECONOMICS: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events
