by Joshua Schwartzstein and Adi Sunderam - Publications - Faculty & Research

conducted by Joshua Schwartzstein, a Harvard Business School assistant professor, and Benjamin Handel, an associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley.... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Consulting; Retail

11 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time

and approved, but when minority loan officers shepherd those applications, approval rates increase significantly, says Adi Sunderam, the Willard Prescott Smith Professor of Corporate Finance at Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

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Selective Attention and Learning

By: Joshua R. Schwartzstein

What do we notice, and how does this affect what we learn? Standard economic models of learning ignore memory by assuming that we remember everything. But there is growing recognition that memory is imperfect. Further, memory imperfections do not stem from limited... View Details

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Relative Thinking and Consumer Choice

By: Joshua R. Schwartzstein

Fixed differences appear smaller when compared to large differences. Professor Schwartzstein has proposed a model of relative thinking, in which a person weighs a given change by less when he compares it to a larger range. Relative thinking implies that a person is... View Details

20 Feb 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

Care? By: Handel, Benjamin, and Joshua Schwartzstein Abstract—Consumers suffer significant losses from not acting on available information. These losses stem from frictions... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Using Models to Persuade

Gradualism in Monetary-Policy: A Time Consistency Problem?

Are There Too Many Safe Securities? Securitization and the Incentives for Information Production

Channeled Attention and Stable Errors

Liquidity Transformation in Asset Management: Evidence from the Cash Holdings of Mutual Funds

A Measure of Risk Appetite for the Macroeconomy

Measuring the Perceived Liquidity of the Corporate Bond Market

Do Fire Sales Create Externalities?

Fiscal Risk and the Portfolio of Government Programs

The Cross Section of Bank Value

The Rise and Fall of Demand for Securitizations

A Quantity-Driven Theory of Term Premia and Exchange Rates

Inflation Bets or Deflation Hedges? The Changing Risks of Nominal Bonds

The Targeting and Impact of Paycheck Protection Program Loans to Small Businesses

How Should US Bank Regulators Respond to the COVID-19 Crisis?

Can Consumers Be Saved From Their Misguided Decisions?

Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time

Selective Attention and Learning

Relative Thinking and Consumer Choice

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018