We study the beliefs and values of Peronism. Instead of a comprehensive approach, we focus on three elements. First, we study beliefs and values about the economic system present in Peron’s speeches during the period 1943–55. Second, given that these beliefs are non-standard (for economists), we present two models formalizing some of the key aspects (for example, the idea that there is somethin...

We consider a decision maker with randomly evolving tastes who faces dynamic decision situations that involve intertemporal tradeoffs, such as those in consumption savings problems. We axiomatize a recursive representation of choice that features uncertain consumption utilities, which evolve according to a subjective Markov process. The parameters of the representation, which are the subjective...

All people share implicit mappings across the senses, which give us preferences for certain sensory combinations over others (eg light colours are preferentially paired with higher-pitch sounds; Ward et al, 2006 Cortex 42 264-280). Although previous work has tended to focus on the cross-modality of vision with other senses, here we present evidence of systematic cross-modality between taste and...

While it is well established that across-country taste differences are associated with "home market effects", there is very limited analysis of how such preference heterogeneity impacts the aggregate volume of trade and the welfare gains from liberalization. I develop a structural model of aggregate demand featuring products with heterogeneous attributes, consumers with heterogeneous tastes for...

Disentangling the effects of selection and influence is one of social science's greatest unsolved puzzles: Do people befriend others who are similar to them, or do they become more similar to their friends over time? Recent advances in stochastic actor-based modeling, combined with self-reported data on a popular online social network site, allow us to address this question with a greater degre...

Eating and drinking problems are common among people with intellectual disabilities. Having a compromised swallow or being at risk of inadequate nutrition are two reasons for introducing non-oral feeding. Such procedures involve the creation of an external opening for food and drink to be delivered directly into the stomach through a tube. In recent years maintenance of the swallow and quality ...

It is widely assumed that people tend to gather in groups of shared interests, where such interests drive friendships and vice versa. Thanks to online social networking platforms, information about a users’s friends as well the items he is interested in are available, but represent only an incomplete picture. We study probabilistic network topic models that distill common shared interests of fr...

Tobacco additives might have an effect on toxicity, addictiveness and attractiveness of the tobacco product. Therefore, from 20th May 2016 the new Tobacco Product Directive 2014/40/EC (TPD) enables strengthened reporting obligations on all ingredients and emissions from tobacco products [1].These reporting obligations could be of special importance for the additive sugar, as this carbohydrate i...

Electronic tongue systems are traditionally used to analyse: food products, water samples and taste masking technologies for pharmaceuticals. In principle, their applications are almost limitless, as they are able to almost completely reduce the impact of interferents and can be applied to distinguish samples of extreme complexity as for example broths from different stages of fermentation. Nev...

We study the long-run effects of Russia’s anti-alcohol campaign, which dramatically altered relative supply hard and light alcohol in late 1980s. find that this policy shifted young men’s preferences from to decades later, we estimate age at consumers form their tastes. show large beer market expansion 1990s had similar on consumers’ tastes, while older tastes remained largely unchanged. then l...