Mar 28, 2024 | Nobel Prize-Winning Expert on Behavioral Economics Daniel Kahneman Dies at 90 | |
by Palash Ghosh, Pensions & Investments, March 28, 2024: Bruce Jacobs remembers Daniel Kahneman as “a cognitive psychologist who gave birth to a thriving branch of economics based on human behavior rather than on standard expected utility theory.” Jacobs, who is quoted extensively in a remembrance of Kahneman’s Nobel Prize-winning career, said that Kahneman “found that when forced to make complex decisions in... uncertain situations, people were not coolly calculating rational agents. Rather, they tended to rely on heuristics—mental shortcuts and rules of thumb. Kahneman found that people could be irrational in systematic ways.” Their systematic behavior “could be incorporated into a forecasting framework,” Jacobs noted, “an insight that gave birth to the field of behavioral economics.” read more + |
Mar 01, 2024 | Factor Investing Paper Wins Top Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Award | |
by Rob Kozlowski, Pensions & Investments, March 1, 2024: The Best Article for the 25th Annual Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Awards was awarded to “Fact, Fiction, and Factor Investing” by Michele Aghassi, Cliff Asness, Charles Fattouche, and Tobias J. Moskowitz. The authors evaluate a variety of claims about factor... investing, confirming some and rebutting others. The article finds that factors receiving the most attention in academia are those based on solid theory and strong in-sample statistical significance. Bruce Jacobs, principal and co-founder of Jacobs Levy Equity Management, said “the authors are to be commended for sifting through the many claims about factor investing and presenting an assessment of its benefits and drawbacks.” All articles that appeared in the Journal of Portfolio Management from 2023 were eligible for the award and were voted on by subscribers. read more + |
Oct 09, 2023 | Harvard Professor Wins Nobel Prize in Economics for Research on Women | |
by Palash Ghosh, Pensions & Investments, October 9, 2023: Claudia Goldin of Harvard was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics “for collecting and interpreting two centuries of data that have revealed the factors that affect women’s opportunities in the labor market and contribute to gaps in pay that exist to this day,” Bruce Jacobs said... In tracing women’s earnings and workforce participation over such an extended period, Goldin’s research highlighted “the role of parenthood in explaining the pay gap between women and men, which remains at 10% to 20% in high-income countries, even as women have equaled and surpassed men’s educational levels,” Bruce added. read more + |
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