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Can a chatbot do what 50 years of lectures by financial economists couldn't, and persuade people to buy index funds?
A new job market paper by my NYU Stern student Valerie Baldinger finds that the answer is yes
valeriebaldinger.github.io/papers/generat…
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Yes it’s possible to embed these instructions without many documents, and very hard verify after the factView quoted post on X
It’s also possible without too much effort to take an open source model and remove the guardrails. For these reasons I think we are going to gatekeep more frontier open source models and ultimately ban Chinese ones
arxiv.org/abs/2401.05566
anthropic.com/research/small…
We're hiring a pre-doctoral Research Associate at @Wharton's Rodney White Center for Financial Research, starting in July 2027! Come work with Lu Liu (@luliu_fin), Huan Tang, and me on research projects in household finance, FinTech, and other exciting topics.View quoted post on X
Please encourage any promising undergraduate or master’s students you know to apply by October 4!
📣 How do decision-making frictions, like paying overdraft fees, aggregate to affect inequality? @sdellavi, @timdesilva, and Rohan Jha invite predictions across decision making domains!View quoted post on X
🕐 Time: 20 min
🗓️ Close: Oct 31
📚 Field: Econ
socialscienceprediction.org/predict/r/c9e6…
