Judges' Cognition and Market Order

Executive Function and Higher-Order Cognition: Neuroimaging

The terms executive function and cognitive controlrefer to cognitive processes associated with the control of thought and action. Putative control functions include the ability to (1) selectively attend to relevant information while filtering out distracting information (selective attention and interference suppression), (2) work with information that is currently being held in working memory (...

Order driven market pdf

Judges, Expertise, and Analogy

Political scientists have shown that one can anticipate how a judge will decide a case more often than chance, or a reading of the facts, might allow by using various predictors such as party affiliation, gender, or the judge’s own decisions on earlier similar cases. The simplest explanation for such behavior is that judges first decide what they want the outcome of the case to be, then go back...

Power Laws of Wealth, Market Order Volumes and Market Returns

Using the Generalised Lotka Volterra (GLV) model adapted to deal with muti agent systems we can investigate economic systems from a general viewpoint and obtain generic features common to most economies. Assuming only weak generic assumptions on capital dynamics, we are able to obtain very specific predictions for the distribution of social wealth. First, we show that in a ’fair’ market, the we...

Motivated Cognition on the Bench: Does Criminal Egregiousness Influence Judges' Beliefs About Police Wrongdoing?