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Nobel Prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman dies

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2024
Daniel Kahneman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist and author, has died aged 90. Kahneman was an Israeli American psychologist whose research into human behaviour upended economics. Kahneman's research demonstrated humans would often abandon logic and ...

In need of repair: Gender stereotypes and advice

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2023
... options and make informed financial decisions." Money on my mind Emotions and financial decision are inextricably linked. Nobel Memorial Prize winner and psychologist Daniel Kahneman says that financial decisions are based 90% on emotions and 10% on ...

Chief economist: What JobKeeper cliff?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2021
"Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future." This quote from Danish physicist and Nobel Prize in physics winner Niels Bohr has been proven time after time but more recently in the Australian Federal Treasury's prediction ...

Chief economist update: Zero beyond 2023

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2020
... the upcoming US elections, the on-going Sino-US trade war and geopolitical tensions, among others. To quote Nils Bohr - Nobel laureate in physics - "Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future".

The next big short

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... price-setting in that market was not done by fundamental security-level analysis, but by massive capital flows based on Nobel-approved models of risk that proved to be untrue." The growing trillions of dollars in assets passively invested around the ...

Chief economist update: Greater than the Great Recession of 2008

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2019
... negative interest rates weren't able to sustainably reflate individual domestic economies. In addition, and as put by Nobel prize winner Paul Samuelson in 1948: "By increasing the volume of their government securities and loans and by lowering Member ...

Chief economist update: Trade war and peace

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2018
... exit he desired. There was no backing out of the US-North Korean Summit on June 12, though. Trump's got his eyes on the Nobel Peace Prize. The summit concluded well with US President Trump and North Korean leader Kim reaching an agreement... the ...

Now showing: Trump and Kim

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2018
... of, as many contestants evoke at the Miss Universe beauty pageant, "world peace". But good intentions don't get you a Nobel Prize (Trump) or alleviate your people's poverty (Kim). Both Trump and Kim would see the summit in terms of a winner and ...

Super scorecard to shift consumer playing field

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2018
... Australia's plan to reorient its superannuation system towards an income goal will require a change in risk management. The Nobel Prize-winning economist envisages a retirement system which takes the weight of financial decision-making off the shoulders ...

Chief economist update: Italy and Spain an emerging ECB problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2018
... cancelled the summit, he declared it back on again. Make what you will of it, but I think Trump has more to lose - like the Nobel Peace Prize and short-circuiting China's increasing global dominance - if the talks were not to proceed on June 12 in ...
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