Does sunspot activity cause disagreements in the soyabean futures market? According to a Feb. 2021 paper in the journal Economic Modelling, the answer is : […] theoretically, the information of sunspots causes disagreement in the soybeans futures market mainly by three channels: gradual information flow, limited attention, and heterogeneous priors. The new study, from Mr. […]
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Experimentally kill a mouse in/for/because of the market
Economists rarely perform experiments with mice. But it does happen, as in this study: “Morals and Markets,” Armin Falk, Nora Szech [pictured here], Science, vol. 340, n. 6133, May 10, 2013, pp. 707-711. The authors, at the University of Bonn and the University of Bamberg, Germany, explain: “In the experiment, subjects decide between either saving […]