Showing posts with label Behavioral Antitrust. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Behavioral Antitrust. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception

R. Shiller, Book Talk, Video here.

Phishing ("an attempt to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details - and sometimes, indirectly, money- often for malicious reasons, by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication").
Phools: not in the Indian sense (flowers in Urdu پھول) - just idiots.

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Homo economicus and Homo sapiens: The CMA experience of behavioural economics

D. Currie, here.

(Terrific read - and compulsory for the students attending my upcoming Fall Antitrust Course)

Thursday, November 07, 2013

Behavioural Economics in Competition and Consumer Policy

Centre for Competition Policy, University of East Anglia, here. Presentations from the book's launch here.

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Behavioural Economics and Competition Policy

The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets, here (pdf file). Oxera Report (pdf file), here