
Behavioral Economist, @SAFE_Frankfurt
Joined November 2018
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Shout-out to the team at Climate Acceptance Studios @ClimateAccept. They translated our research on global willingness to act against climate change into a short video.
More info on the initiative: wearethemajority.earth/
Paper here: nature.com/articles/s41558-0…
3⃣ Yet, the majority believes they are in the minority: people systematically underestimate others' willingness to fight climate change. In basically all 125 countries, and to a large extent.
2⃣ The willingness to act on climate change is significantly higher in countries most affected by it. Conversely, richer nations show a somewhat lower willingness.
1⃣ 69% of people worldwide are willing to contribute 1% of their income to fight climate change. 86% say people should try to fight climate change. And an astonishing 89% demand intensified political action.
Hello world! We can share some good news today.
🌍 Support for climate action is widespread across the globe and much larger than it is perceived. 🌍
Our new article is out in Nature Climate Change: nature.com/articles/s41558-0…
w/ @TeodoraBoneva1 @FelixChopra @Armin_Falk
Thanks for reading this thread! 👍👍
Check out the paper at drive.google.com/file/d/1-_V…
Mental Models of the Stock Market
w/ @ph_schirmer and @JoWohlfart
Here, we classify the explanations of respondents. Almost all academic experts refer to efficient markets and use logic in line with risk-based asset pricing. Households and financial professionals neglect equilibrium pricing.
Well, here is what our respondents think.
Academic experts think that stale news do NOT matter for expected returns.
By contrast, 60-80% of households and financial professionals believe that stale news matters, e.g.
- stale good news ➡️ higher future expected returns
🚨 New paper! 🚨
w/ @ph_schirmer @JoWohlfart
Stock markets revolve around return expectations, which traders form in light of their deeper understanding – their mental model – of the market ...
... which we know very little about. Time to change this!
drive.google.com/file/d/1-_V…
We also find that narratives change over time – and they can do so quite fast. Shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a war narrative appeared, crowding out pandemic-related explanations. And many more people referred to rising energy prices.









