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STICERD Economic Theory Seminars - Samuelson and Guth

Sunday, 20 Apr 2025, 09:36
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Edited by Alfred Anate Bodurin Mayaki, Sunday, 20 Apr 2025, 13:21

Happy Easter!

An e-mail I just sent to Sadia Ali at LSE:

I hope you're doing well. I noticed that Professor Larry Samuelson (Yale) will be giving a class seminar on 1 May 2025, and I’d be grateful if you could kindly pass along a message to him. I recently completed a paper commemorating Werner Güth’s contributions to game theory—his pioneering work has profoundly impacted the field.

Prior literature on two-firm two-market and two-stage extended dynamic models has introduced what Guth (2016) succinctly terms a social dilemma. A state in which conglomerate firms competing in a Bertrand duopoly consider jointly optimizing profits under a tacit self-enforcing agreement to deter market entry. This theoretical article reinterprets the social dilemma highlighted by Guth (2016 ...
arxiv.org

Shortly after finishing the paper, I came across this article (below), and I was pleasantly surprised to see that Professor Samuelson has also paid thoughtful tribute to Güth’s legacy. It would be wonderful if LSE could consider hosting a seminar in honour of Werner Güth at some point in the future. Many would appreciate the opportunity to reflect on and celebrate his influence.

Werner Güth's ultimatum game played a key role in the development of multiple research areas, several of which are highlighted.
doi.org

Looking forward to Samuelson's seminar. If it's anything like Andrea Galeotti's (LBS) seminar, we should all be in for an amazing experience.
Tags: cpd, preparing, b814-25e, Andrea Galeotti, Larry Samuelson, Werner Guth, lse, sticerd
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CPD, Cochrane and Systematic Reviews

Wednesday, 16 Apr 2025, 10:03
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Edited by Alfred Anate Bodurin Mayaki, Saturday, 19 Apr 2025, 12:35

So, I just completed 'Module 1: An Introduction to Systematic Reviews' yesterday - it is an online short course offered by Cochrane Training, and I am now a pleased bunny. Here's why:

a) The article I am about to read from the Open University Library entitled: "Embracing Translational HRD Research for Evidence-Based Management: Let's Talk About How to Bridge the Research-Practice Gap" by Gubbins and Rousseau (2015) was found after I pursued a hunch I had. 

b) That hunch was that there must be a model in place that clearly explains how HRD Evidence, Strategy, and Policy are correlated in an orderly manner. After scouring another article by Nimon and Astakhova (2015) entitled "Improving the Rigor of Quantitative HRD Research: Four Recommendations in Support of the General Hierarchy of Evidence," I stumbled on the FINER (Feasible, Interesting, Novel, Ethical, Relevant) model, and by extension, the SPIDER model (sample, phenomenon of interest, design, evaluation, research type), which is "designed specifically to identify relevant qualitative and mixed-method studies" (Methley, Campbell and Chew-Graham et. al., 2014).

c) However, I realised quite quickly that FINER albeit a good model, wasn't enough of a repetitive approach, so I ran to Cochrane's online course (it's in my tabs) to quickly learn about PICO - i.e., the systematic approach mandating "Participants, Interventions, Comparisons, and Outcomes" as structured interrelational components. All well-conducted systematic reviews always start by stating the question in PICO form! 

To recap:

  • Define question - I learned via Cochrane how PICO helps to define the research question in a more systematic format than FINER (and possibly more than SPIDER)
  • Plan criteria - I learned about study protocols, which are plans that must be made for the systematic review to be conducted
  • Conduct a review - this links back to the idea of my model in my previous post.

Wish me luck as I read Gubbins and Rousseau (2015).

Tags: cpd, preparing, learning, b814-25e, Cochrane, Denise Rousseau
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