Dec 20, 2022
To celebrate 50 episodes of Game Changer, we take a look behind the scenes. The hosts Simon and Florian take the role of interviewees and answer Miriam’s questions on their motivation and goals for the game changer podcast and how the episodes are prepared and recorded.
We would like to thank all our listeners for...
Dec 6, 2022
In this episode, we focus on ‘decision theory’ and discuss with Shachar its connection to Game Theory. Shachar shares the three key trade-offs relevant for taking a decision.
We also discuss the ‘dictator game’ and how Shachar applied a modified version of the dictator game to study preferences of decision...
Nov 22, 2022
In this episode we talk to Ben Lyttleton about a particular topic in football: how to score the perfect penalty. Ben is an expert on penalties and has gathered a lot of insights on the ‘perfect penalty’ in his book Twelve Yards: The Art & Psychology of the Perfect Penalty. Ben shares that penalties are much more...
Nov 8, 2022
In this episode, Karolin Kirschenmann explains why this year’s
Nobel Prize in economics was given to Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond
and Philip Dybvig.
We discuss their research on the role of banks in the economy and
the models developed by the researchers. We deep-dive into the
modelling of bank-runs and their...
Oct 24, 2022
In this episode, Scott Kominers introduces us to the exciting world of NFTs. We learn about their fascinating properties and their potential for creating new markets or reshaping existing ones. Scott also gives a few practical examples of how NFTs can be used, both in the digital and the real world.
Scott also gave us...