Uyen Tran

In @NYUStern's new AI in Finance course, I used @ExpectedParrot, John's tool for creating AI personas to simulate responses, as the key tech in two cases: 1. Modernizing branches with the rise of mobile banking 2. Adding AI to a payments startup without creeping out customers

Thank you @BrianCAlbrecht for highlighting my work from my dissertation!

Wait, retail shopping isn't dead? 🤯 1. Offline spending on consumer packaged goods (CPG) was flat from 2006-2016 2. Yes, online is growing. To a whole 3%! It's just not that big to matter for aggregate trends. Super interesting paper from Uyen Tran. dropbox.com/scl/fi/73pozfv…

Check out my paper with @ALPWillen on how risk drives gender differences in willingness to ask for regrades. At NHH, because men ask more they benefit more from regrade requests. More details in the thread. 🧵:

New WP alert!! How do firms’ nudging practices when collecting consumer data affect the quality of data they get? @AvnerShlain and I find that nudges that are designed to maximize consumer opt-in (data volume) may in some situations sacrifice the representativeness (data bias).

My first paper, on how the *size* of estimated secular trends can be *highly* sensitive to when you start measuring them! Short and simple, only 7 pages long, with @EconTraina, now up on SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Great video about a recent study by @agoli9069, Mummalaneni, Chintagunta, Dhar on product placement for cigarettes (which cannot be advertised in traditional channels) and their impact on sales👇 youtube.com/watch?v=D6mWD-…

Does holding objects like purses or laptops put us at a higher risk of falling? New research shows people are 70% less likely to fall when they can use their arms freely. doi.org/10.1016/j.humo… #retweet #science #health

Wrote down some thoughts on labor market policy with @EconTraina on @ProMarket_org promarket.org/2022/03/25/bid…