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Making SenseTrading Insights: Behavioral biases and their impact on investing decisionsThis episode features Michelle Baddeley, Professor of Economics at Sydney’s University of Technology (UTS) and author of several books on behavioral economics and finance. She sits down with Eloise Goulder, head of the Data Assets & Alpha Group at J.P. Morgan, to discuss the impact of behavioral biases — such as loss aversion, anchoring and confirmation bias — on investing decisions, the meme stock phenomenon and consumer choices. They also explore how the collective impact of these biases is manifested across the economy and markets. How can these biases be avoided in trading? And will AI serve to mitigate or amplif...
2025-08-2220 min
The Tourism Chat ShowTRENZ Unpacked - Mastering the Art of Networking with Lou BaddileyIn this episode of The Tourism Chat Show, Michelle sits down with RotoruaNZ’s Lou Baddeley to unpack one of the most underrated – yet crucial – parts of the TRENZ experience: networking.
Whether you're a natural connector or someone who dreads striking up a conversation in a coffee queue, this episode is packed with practical tips to help you build relationships, spark opportunity, and turn casual chats into long-term business.
Key takeaways include:
Why networking matters: TRENZ is more than just scheduled appointments. It’s about those unstructured moments – in the coffee line, on a famil, o...
2025-04-1526 min
The Very Short Introductions PodcastBehavioural Economics - The Very Short Introductions Podcast - Episode 60In this episode, Michelle Baddeley explores behavioural economics, a field that allows us to understand our own decision-making processes and how this can impact our financial behaviour.
Learn more about “Behavioural Economics: A Very Short Introduction” here: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/behavioural-economics-a-very-short-introduction-9780198754992
Michelle Baddeley is an expert in behavioural economics and behavioural finance. She is currently a Professor in Economics, the UTS Business School’s Associate Dean Research and the Director of the Centre for Livelihoods and Wellbeing (CLAW).
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2022-12-0118 min
Think: Business FuturesCopycats & ContrariansWhy do we follow the crowd? When is it a good idea and when is it not? Michelle Baddeley from the UTS Business School is the author of the book Copycats and Contrarians. She joins the show to talk about the concept of herding and how it manifests in the business world.
2022-08-0929 min
Think: Business FuturesDemocracy Forum: Government's Role In InnovationFor this very special episode, we bring you address by Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz. This address was from an event organised as part of the UTS Vice Chancellor's Democracy Forum. Professor Stiglitz's address is followed by a conversation with UTS behavioural economist Michelle Baddeley. The theme of this episode is Government's role in innovation.
2022-07-2651 min
Think: Business FuturesConfidence is KeyThey say confidence is key to many things in life, but when a pandemic brings a city to a lurching halt, how does it bounce back?As restrictions in Melbourne begin to ease, and government stimulus payments attempt to stem the bleeding, how will Melbournians regain the spring in their step when it comes to spending?It’s a question for a behavioral economist really, and today, we’re joined by Professor Michelle Baddeley from the UTS Business School, to help us understand why confidence is key.
2021-06-1620 min
Think: Business FuturesA Tale of Stocks & MemesEarlier this year, struggling businesses GameStop (NYSE: GME) and AMC Entertainment Holdings saw their stock prices skyrocket overnight, thanks to a short squeeze initiated by a group of investors on Reddit.com.It was r/wallstreetbets, a coalition of largely amateur investors on the site- known as the front page of the internet- that created a surge of interest in a number of stocks being shorted by some of Wall Street’s largest hedge funds.It was seen as a brave new form of financial activism by some, and a...
2021-03-2324 min
Think: Business FuturesUnder New Management: What Will The World Look Like Under A Biden Presidency?It was one of the founding fathers, and the United State’s third President Thomas Jefferson who said of the presidency ; “No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case as in any other, and its moments of ecstasy would be ransomed by years of torment and hatred.’In today’s episode, we’re taking a wider scope, and asking; ‘What happens to the rest of us with the United States under new management?’Joining Max...
2020-11-1026 min
Running TalesJosh Lay: The 1,500m star with his sights set on the Tokyo OlympicsJosh Lay is an athlete with a bright future ahead of him.The Loughborough University scholar and 1,500m runner has one eye on the Tokyo Olympics - and he's a Northampton lad so we had plenty to talk about.Josh's local 'claim to fame' may not be one he hopes to be remembered for - he sent two-time Olympian Andrew Baddeley the wrong way round the Northampton parkrun course (Baddeley still set a course record!) - but he's got every chance of creating some great memories in the future.
2020-08-1433 min
Think: Business FuturesDegree or Not Degree?Last week, Federal Education Minister The Hon. Dan Tehan announced a raft of changes to the higher learning sector. Degrees deemed 'job-focused' will see a decrease in costs for students, while those determined not to be are going to be a lot more expensive for the average undergraduate.In today's episode, we discuss what this means for the future of learning, and the role of the university in this brave new world with Professor Michelle Baddeley , behavioral economist and Associate Dean (Research and Development) at the University of Technology Sydney and Professor Kieth Dobney...
2020-06-2329 min
Talking To Teens: Expert Tips for Parenting TeenagersEp 89: The Followers & the RebelsMichelle Baddeley, author of Copycats and Contrarians, offers a multidisciplinary look at why a teen goes along with the group and when they choose instead to rebel. The key to preventing potentially harmful impulses may lie in a moment of hesitation.Full show notes“I’m not going! Leave without me, I already have plans!” your son yells at you from his bed. It’s a bright and sunny Saturday, and you’re loading the car so that the family can spend a night at your parents’ house. Everyone in the family has known about the trip for...
2020-06-0722 min
Think: Business FuturesWhen The Economy Sneezes, Do We All Get Sick?COVID19 has rapidly become one of the biggest health emergencies in recent history; but how has the virus effected our economy? Host Max Tillman is joined by behavioural economist Professor Michelle Baddeley, ABC Business Reporter Carrington Clarke and supply-chain expert and industry consultant Rob O'Byrne to make a prognosis.
2020-03-0336 min
Tune In To A Mind-Blowing Full Audiobook On Your Commute.Copycats and Contrarians by Michelle BaddeleyPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/97163to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Copycats and Contrarians
Author: Michelle Baddeley
Narrator: Cat Gould
Format: mp3
Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
Release date: 07-10-18
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 3 ratings
Genres: Negotiating
Publisher's Summary:
Drawing on insights from across the social, behavioral, and natural sciences, Michelle Baddeley explores contexts in which behavior is driven by the herd. She analyzes the rational vs nonrational and cognitive vs emotional forces involved, and she investigates why herding only sometimes works out well. With new perspectives on followers, leaders, and the pros and cons of herd behavior, Baddeley shines...
2018-07-1010h 21
Social Science BitesWhose Work Most Influenced You? A Social Science Bites RetrospectiveWhich piece of social science research has most inspired or most influenced you? This question has been posed to every interview in the Social Science Bites podcast series, but never made part of the audio file made public. Now, as we approach the 50th Social Science Bite podcast to be published this March 1, journalist and interviewer David Edmonds has compiled those responses into three separate montages of those answers. In this first of that set of montages, 15 renowned social scientists – starting in alphabetical order from all who have participated – reveal their pick. As you might expe...
2017-02-1513 minSocial Science BitesMichelle Baddeley on the HerdHuman beings are social animals, notes economist Michelle Baddeley, and as such the instinct to herd is hardwired into us. And so while this has changed from (in most cases) physically clumping into groups, it does translate into behavior linked to financial markets, news consumption, restaurant-picking and Brooklyn facial hair decisions. In this latest Social Science Bites podcast, Baddeley – a professor in economics and finance of the built environment at University College London -- tells interviewer David Edmond how modern herding often follows from an information imbalance, real or perceived, in which a person follows the wisdom of...
2017-02-0115 min
The Briefing RoomInfrastructure: The Roads to Recovery?Theresa May has promised new trains, faster broadband and improved infrastructure. Critics accused her of adopting Labour Party politics. But is it left-wing to invest in infrastructure?During the Great Depression, John Maynard Keynes encouraged governments to dig holes until the economy was restored. The explosion of building in 1930s America is often seen as Keynes' words in action - but the New Deal was not as straightforward as we may think. The Economist's Soumaya Keynes finds out what really happened.After the 2008 crisis, politicians turned to Keynes' ideas once again. First Ed Miliband, then...
2016-10-2027 min
Security and Human Behaviour (SHB 2014)S02 – Michelle Baddeley: A Behavioural Analysis of Online Privacy and Security
2014-06-0900 min
Names Not NumbersCITIES AND TOMORROW’S SOCIETYFrom the overcrowded slums of Dhaka to the post-industrial wastelands of Detroit, many of the world's cities are under great strain. City life encapsulates many of the defining issues that matter to us all. In this session our panellists will examine how communities can - and must - adapt how they live, work and build to avoid the city of the future becoming a socially polarised dystopia. Recorded live at editorial intelligence’s ‘experiential residential’ Names Not Numbers.
Chaired by:Matt Peacock, Group Communications Director, Vodafone
Panel: Dr. Michelle Baddeley, Professor in Economics and Finance of the...
2014-05-0733 min