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EE2025 – Good decisions (in-person)
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The in-person event will take place in the center of beautiful Cascais, Portugal. This time, we want to explore the connections between ergodicity economics, ecological rationality, heuristics in decision-making, and the rationality debate in economics. Note: Participation is by invitation only, and […]
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EE2025 – Good decisions
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To see the program and register, please click here. Over the past year, the Ergodicity Economics group has had fascinating interactions with the Adaptive Behavior and Cognition (ABC) group, whose work focuses on bounded rationality, ecological rationality, and social rationality. The EE2025 […]
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Seminar on First-Passage Time Distributions in One-Dimensional Ruin Problems
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Friday 8 November @ 4pm London time. In the sixth talk of our Ergodicity Economics seminar series, James Holehouse (Santa Fe Institute) will present his research on first-passage problems: First-Passage Time Distributions in One-Dimensional Ruin Problems In many cases, the distribution of […]
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Congratulations to Ole Peters on being awarded Freedom of the City of London
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Congratulations are in order for LML Fellow and Co-founder Professor Ole Peters who was awarded the Freedom of the City of London on 19 July 2024, having been nominated for his contributions to research into economics, in particular his formulation of Ergodicity […]
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Interview: LML Fellow Emilie Soysal
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Emilie Rosenlund Soysal joined LML as a research fellow in January 2024. Her current research focuses on the economic modelling of climate change and disaster risk, tipping points and extinction. She is particularly interested in optimal policies under the presence of absorbing […]
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Data Science for Social Good — identifying students at risk of missing out on higher education
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Datafest, a recent event at The Shard in London, marked the culmination of a twelve week effort by students participating in the 2023 Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) Summer Fellowship programme at the University of Warwick, supported by the London Mathematical […]
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Data Science for Social Good — helping consumers to identify greenwashing
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Datafest, a recent event at The Shard in London, marked the culmination of a twelve week effort by students participating in the 2023 Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) Summer Fellowship programme at the University of Warwick, supported by the London Mathematical […]
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Fighting deforestation in Brazil: gaining insight through data science
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Datafest, a recent event at The Shard in London, marked the culmination of a 12-week effort by students participating in the 2023 Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) Summer Fellowship programme at the University of Warwick, supported by the London Mathematical Laboratory. […]
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Why insurance exists
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A recent issue of Annals of Actuarial Science features a concise essay by Ole Peters, founder of the London Mathematical Laboratory, discussing the concept of insurance – and explaining why it is surprisingly paradoxical from the viewpoint of mainstream economics. The discussion […]
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Cooperation through exchange: an emerging paradigm
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“Evolution,” in the words of biologist Martin Nowak, “is based on a fierce competition between individuals and should therefore reward only selfish behaviour. Every gene, every cell, and every organism should be designed to promote its own evolutionary success at the expense […]