InShort | May 01, 2024 The price of impatience: Why being patient when selling your home pays off What would you do? Say you’re about to move, but your current home hasn’t sold yet. Do you opt for a low asking price, which means a quick sale... Spatial Economics
Column | April 05, 2024 Penalty Shootouts In order to make the game of soccer as a spectacle even more exciting, FIFA decided in 1978 to introduce a penalty kick series if the match required a winn...
InDepth | June 27, 2023 Hunt Allcott on uncertainty, inequality, and mitigation in times of a warming globe The 2023-Tinbergen Economics Lectures, which were dedicated to Empirical Environmental and Energy Economics, were delivered by Hunt Allcott, Professor of G...
Column | June 17, 2022 Sparse transition matrices but rich Macro discussions A participant’s report on the 2022 TI Economics Lectures by Benjamin Moll on Distributional Macroeconomics.
Column | June 14, 2021 The Whims of a Lottery A rigged lottery or a chance fluctuation? Another probability problem for the reader to test his or her feeling for probabilities.
InDepth | May 28, 2021 A Rigorous Programme with Excellent Support An interview with Benoît Crutzen about his new role as TI Director of Graduate Studies and his vision and priorities for TI now and the next five yea...
Column | December 18, 2020 Probability Puzzles with a Crazy Santa Claus For your enjoyment and instruction, this column contains six challenging probability puzzles of varying difficulty with sometimes surprising solutions. Som...
InShort | October 11, 2020 The Effect of Ozone Air Pollution on Physical Capacity Scholars from various scientific disciplines work on understanding the impact of air pollution. Most of the studies focus on long-term health consequences,...
Column | April 01, 2020 Investing and Gambling with Kelly The Kelly strategy, also known as the scientific gambling method, is a powerful money management system. This article outlines how this system works.
