We are delighted that Carl Singleton, who will be joining the economics division in January, is visiting campus next week.

Carl will present a paper that is of particular interest to the behavioural science group - 2-3pm in room 4b96, Tuesday 31 2-3pm.

The title of his paper is "Gambling on Momentum in Contests" and it is about a behavioural bias in forecasting. It uses sports betting to demonstrate an illusion of momentum.

Looking forward to seeing you there,

Dave

Prof. David Comerford

Economics Division

Centre Director, Behavioural Science

Program Director, MSc Behavioural Science

Our centre website: https://behsci.stir.ac.uk/

Recent publications:

Bridger, E. K., Tufte‐Hewett, A., & Comerford, D. A. (2023). Dispositional and situational attributions for why the rich live longer than the poor. Journal of Applied Social Psychology.

Comerford, D. A. (2023). Response Bias in Survey Measures of Expectations: Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Expectations’ Inflation Module. Journal of Money, Credit and Banking.