#AcademicRunPlaylist - 6/15/24

The beautiful day helped me recover from the Celtics loss, as did the talks from my #AcademicRunPlaylist!

First was an informative panel on the pros and cons of binding arbitration at the Cornell University ILR School with Alex Colvin and David B Lipsky. Importantly this is from 2016, which enables good comparison with perspectives on this topic today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SePhYacUYLs

Next was an intriguing talk by Denis Sosyura on the market effects of sensationalism in financial media at Columbia Business School. Sosyura convincingly shows that institutional investors make out from this activity, with retail investors falling for these hyped stories https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lII9ml5Js2Q

Next was a wide-ranging talk by Mark Pendleton on ruination and recovery in 20th-century Tokyo at the University of London School of Advanced Study  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKKUqmxT2t4&t=4s

Next was a fantastic panel on centering power appropriately in AI development and deployment at the LSE with Chandrima Ganguly, Neil Lawrence, and Sadiqah Musa. This is one of the first times I've heard the complete AI regulatory capture in the UK brought up, and it was incredibly refreshing. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDis21-dZSU

Next was a nice talk by Anthony Welch on the development of China-ASEAN knowledge networks at the Heidelberg University https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzBc0QCfSpc

Next was a thought-provoking talk by Ewan McGaughey on the degree to which corporations and their governance increases inequality at the Cambridge Faculty of Law. While McGaughey's concerns about institutional investors steering pension product purchase decisions since been disproved by empirical research, overall this is a rich examination of an important topic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orZt74ZNc78

Next was an important talk by Patricia Rose on how structural racism works at Brown University. Rose delivers a breathless overview of the social, historical, governmental, and economic structures that built and reinforce racism in the US as well as the perspectives that myopically deny their existence. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT1vsOJctMk

Next was an excellent talk by Deborah Kolb on negotiating at work at the Harvard Law School. Using rich examples, Kolb illustrates general principles for effective negotiation, the gendered nature of negotiation and work norms, and practical negotiation strategies for individuals. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppDq84yGrD8

Next was a great talk by Robin Hogarth on why simple solutions aren't, in fact, simple at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development. Hogarth examines how people develop and use decision making heuristics, the continuous nature of decisions, and how to integrate these heuristics with more data-driven approaches. Hogarth unfortunately lauds credit decision algorithms that are historically ineffective and racist, but on the whole it's a very worthwhile talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPXRKLndOfg

Last was an engaging talk by Lyle Ungar on how to make better forecasts at Stanford University https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnp5fjQHeB8