Departmental Seminar with Peter Schwardmann (Carnegie Mellon University)

Peter Schwardmann is Associate Professor of Behavioural Economics of the Department of Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). He is also Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and at CESifo, as well as a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (BAdW). Prior to joining CMU, he was Assistant Professor at the University of Munich.

He is a is a behavioural economist. Much of his research focuses on why people so frequently hold biased beliefs about themselves and the world around them. He is also interested in how biased beliefs shape outcomes in markets and affect how we communicate. His research uses both laboratory and field experiments. Published in top-tier international journals, both general and specialised, he has received important funding in 2020 from the BAdR as for his research group Beliefs about CO2 emissions and was co-investigator for the 2019 ANR project Information Dissemination with Bounded Rationality and Channel Complexity.

Peter Schwardmann's website

He will present a paper, joint with John Conlon, at our inaugural Departmental Seminar of the year, entitled:

AI Sycophancy and Decisions (read paper, PDF 6.2 MB)

Our next Departmental Seminar will host Jonathan A. Parker (MIT Sloan) on September 28th.