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The article "A model of cycles and bubbles under heterogeneous beliefs in financial markets" by Carina Burs has been accepted for publication in Cogent Economics & Finance.

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Organizational Psychology

The article "The Choice of Ideology and Everyday Decisions" by Carina Burs, Thomas Gries, and Veronika Müller has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Organizational Psychology.

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Can we anticipate financial market anomalies or even impending shocks?

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Ideology and Microfoundation
Ideology and Microfoundation

This book combines theoretical and empirical research across various academic disciplines, including economics, psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, and political science, to describe why individuals adopt political ideologies and how this choice can potentially exacerbate conflict and violence. Ideology is particularly important to conflict. Data on intra- and international conflict shows that the number of ideologically driven conflicts has…

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Is Artificial Intelligence a more significant invention than electricity? Will it result in explosive economic growth and unimaginable wealth for all, or will it cause the extinction of all humans? Artificial Intelligence: Economic Perspectives and Models provides a sober analysis of these questions from an economics perspective. It argues that to better understand the impact of AI on economic outcomes, we must fundamentally change the way we…

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