Browsing by Author "Hebert, Benjamin"

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    • Essays on Information and Debt 

      Hebert, Benjamin (2015-05-01)
      These essays attempt to explain why debt contracts are so common, and to explore the consequences resulting from the use of debt contracts. In the first essay, “Moral Hazard and the Optimality of Debt,” I use tools from ...

    • Investment Dynamics with Natural Expectations 

      Fuster, Andreas; Hebert, Benjamin Michael; Laibson, David I. (Association of the International Journal of Central Banking, 2012)
      We study an investment model in which agents have the wrong beliefs about the dynamic properties of fundamentals. Specifically, we assume that agents underestimate the rate of mean reversion. The model exhibits the ...

    • Most Reported Genetic Associations with General Intelligence Are Probably False Positives 

      Laibson, David I.; Chabris, Christopher F.; Hebert, Benjamin Michael; Benjamin, Daniel J.; Beauchamp, Jonathan P.; Cesarini, David; van der Loos, Matthijs J. H. M.; Johannesson, Magnus; Magnusson, Patrik K. E.; Lichtenstein, Paul; Atwood, Craig S.; Freese, Jeremy; Hauser, Taissa S.; Hauser, Robert M.; Christakis, Nicholas Alexander (Sage, 2012)
      General intelligence (g) and virtually all other behavioral traits are heritable. Associations between g and specific single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in several candidate genes involved in brain function have been ...

    • The Promises and Pitfalls of Genoeconomics 

      Benjamin, Daniel J.; Cesarini, David; Chabris, Christopher F.; Glaeser, Edward Ludwig; Laibson, David I.; Guðnason, Vilmundur; Harris, Tamara B.; Launer, Lenore J.; Purcell, Shaun; Smith, Albert Vernon; Johannesson, Magnus; Magnusson, Patrik K.E.; Christakis, Nicholas Alexander; Atwood, Craig S.; Hebert, Benjamin Michael; Freese, Jeremy; Hauser, Robert M.; Hauser, Taissa S.; Hultman, Christina M.; Lichtenstein, Paul; Beauchamp, Jonathan P.; Grankvist, Alexander (Annual Reviews, 2012)
      This article reviews existing research at the intersection of genetics and economics, presents some new findings that illustrate the state of genoeconomics research, and surveys the prospects of this emerging field. Twin ...