Lisa Kramer
@lisakramer.com
Financial economist musing on behavioural finance, behavioral economics, emotion, markets, risk, pensions, humans, & animals.
Professor of Finance, University of Toronto
Joint Sponsors, UPP
Board of Directors, UTAM & We Animals
http://www.lisakramer.com
Professor of Finance, University of Toronto
Joint Sponsors, UPP
Board of Directors, UTAM & We Animals
http://www.lisakramer.com
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Lisa Kramer
@lisakramer.com
· Nov 15
From my personal archives, spotted 10 years ago in the lunchroom at the NBER 📉📈
My brain these days. I ordered some lovely boots but they’re too small. I meant to go up half a size from men’s 6 / women’s 8, I accidentally ordered (men’s) 8.5, which is women’s 10.5. (Even more confusing, that’s size 7.5 to Australians.)
Happily, the huge boots actually fit.
Happily, the huge boots actually fit.
November 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM
My brain these days. I ordered some lovely boots but they’re too small. I meant to go up half a size from men’s 6 / women’s 8, I accidentally ordered (men’s) 8.5, which is women’s 10.5. (Even more confusing, that’s size 7.5 to Australians.)
Happily, the huge boots actually fit.
Happily, the huge boots actually fit.
This is delightful!
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:25 PM
This is delightful!
“You are just paying $2 for a one-dollar bill.”
The hottest crypto trade has turned ice cold. Some investors are saying “told you so,” while others are doubling down.
The Year’s Hottest Crypto Trade Is Crumbling
Some investors are saying “told you so,” while others are doubling down, as a selloff in bitcoin and other digital tokens hits crypto-treasury companies.
on.wsj.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:48 PM
“You are just paying $2 for a one-dollar bill.”
Today I walked farther than I have since I first started getting sick in June. It has been nearly 6 weeks since my kidney surgery and I’m getting stronger every day.
a woman in a red top and white pants is walking down a road .
Alt: Joanna Rohrback, wearing an apricot top and white pants, Prancersizing in a park
media.tenor.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Today I walked farther than I have since I first started getting sick in June. It has been nearly 6 weeks since my kidney surgery and I’m getting stronger every day.
Reposted by Lisa Kramer
Sometimes when people ask me why I’m wearing a mask I say I’m traveling or have some important thing soon and can’t afford to get sick and miss it and that’s pretty much always true but I think it would be nice if it were more normalized to just say “I don’t want to get sick” and leave it at that
November 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Sometimes when people ask me why I’m wearing a mask I say I’m traveling or have some important thing soon and can’t afford to get sick and miss it and that’s pretty much always true but I think it would be nice if it were more normalized to just say “I don’t want to get sick” and leave it at that
A touching tribute at Queen’s Park today in memory of those who lost their lives in service to their country. Each person in the photo represents an individual who didn’t make it home from war. The fellow in the foreground represents 17-year-old Private Arnold Andrew Boswell Kirkup.
November 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
A touching tribute at Queen’s Park today in memory of those who lost their lives in service to their country. Each person in the photo represents an individual who didn’t make it home from war. The fellow in the foreground represents 17-year-old Private Arnold Andrew Boswell Kirkup.
Creepy.
“There is a tiny notice located next to the billboard alerting anyone in the general vicinity of the ad that their image may be captured ... Once the camera has taken your photo, there’s no way to opt out of the service ...”
toronto.citynews.ca/2025/11/06/u...
“There is a tiny notice located next to the billboard alerting anyone in the general vicinity of the ad that their image may be captured ... Once the camera has taken your photo, there’s no way to opt out of the service ...”
toronto.citynews.ca/2025/11/06/u...
Are these billboards near Union Station watching and recording you?
As you’re walking through Union Station, you might stop and look at any of the number of advertising billboards that dot the hallways. But what you don’t know is that some of those billboards are actu...
toronto.citynews.ca
November 7, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Creepy.
“There is a tiny notice located next to the billboard alerting anyone in the general vicinity of the ad that their image may be captured ... Once the camera has taken your photo, there’s no way to opt out of the service ...”
toronto.citynews.ca/2025/11/06/u...
“There is a tiny notice located next to the billboard alerting anyone in the general vicinity of the ad that their image may be captured ... Once the camera has taken your photo, there’s no way to opt out of the service ...”
toronto.citynews.ca/2025/11/06/u...
I’m still not over the time an Associate Dean told me the reason their school’s salary offers to women professors were well below salary offers to men professors was because that’s what other schools offered. 🤷♀️
November 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I’m still not over the time an Associate Dean told me the reason their school’s salary offers to women professors were well below salary offers to men professors was because that’s what other schools offered. 🤷♀️
I just came across an academic association that erroneously lists me on their website as having delivered a keynote at a past conference of theirs. Did not happen! Makes me wonder if they are trying to boost the ratio of women among their past keynote speakers. Rude whatever the case.
a man with a beard is holding a cup of coffee
Alt: The Dude, as portrayed by Jeff Bridges in The Big Lebowski, looking puzzled as he stirs a cocktail
media.tenor.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I just came across an academic association that erroneously lists me on their website as having delivered a keynote at a past conference of theirs. Did not happen! Makes me wonder if they are trying to boost the ratio of women among their past keynote speakers. Rude whatever the case.
Not a word about the most effective way to avoid contracting airborne infections, wearing a mask
Gift link if you still want to read the article: www.wsj.com/sports/olymp...
Gift link if you still want to read the article: www.wsj.com/sports/olymp...
November 6, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Not a word about the most effective way to avoid contracting airborne infections, wearing a mask
Gift link if you still want to read the article: www.wsj.com/sports/olymp...
Gift link if you still want to read the article: www.wsj.com/sports/olymp...
Had to look up the colour “Kelly green” and learned there are more shades of green than I realized. Missing from the Wikipedia list is peridot, my favorite green, perhaps because it isn’t considered a shade of green but rather a gemstone.
Pictured: a Hawaiian beach with more than a few peridots
Pictured: a Hawaiian beach with more than a few peridots
November 5, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Had to look up the colour “Kelly green” and learned there are more shades of green than I realized. Missing from the Wikipedia list is peridot, my favorite green, perhaps because it isn’t considered a shade of green but rather a gemstone.
Pictured: a Hawaiian beach with more than a few peridots
Pictured: a Hawaiian beach with more than a few peridots
Informative thread on this year’s economics job market. Includes info broken down by US versus international, type of employer, and type of job category
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New data on the #EconJobMarket as of Nov 2. Based on total # of job listings on JOE, this year continues to be even weaker (by 11%) than during COVID (2020). 1/many #EconSky
November 5, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Informative thread on this year’s economics job market. Includes info broken down by US versus international, type of employer, and type of job category
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Join me Nov. 11/25 at noon EST as I moderate a webinar by Meera Paleja, Head of Investor Research and Behavioural Insights at the Ontario Securities Commission
Topic: Enhancing the Investor Experience: A Behavioural Science Perspective
Registration link:
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/c1c7f2...
Topic: Enhancing the Investor Experience: A Behavioural Science Perspective
Registration link:
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/c1c7f2...
November 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Join me Nov. 11/25 at noon EST as I moderate a webinar by Meera Paleja, Head of Investor Research and Behavioural Insights at the Ontario Securities Commission
Topic: Enhancing the Investor Experience: A Behavioural Science Perspective
Registration link:
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/c1c7f2...
Topic: Enhancing the Investor Experience: A Behavioural Science Perspective
Registration link:
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/c1c7f2...
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This week I received four items through interlibrary loan and document delivery, and I gotta say, that service suite continues to be a shining example of society functioning as it should. Eduroam is another.
Thank your librarians working on ILL in the background. They do saintly work.
Thank your librarians working on ILL in the background. They do saintly work.
November 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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The parliamentary committee seeks “the disaggregated data of all submitted [research] applications, whether funded or not, for all [graduate] student and faculty funding programs … between 2020 and 2025” including identity of evaluation committees, scores, comments, and applicants’ demographic info.
How much are MPs entitled to know about research grants? Not as much as they think. A parliamentary committee is asking for researchers' personal information in what seems like an anti-DEI crusade, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com
Opinion: How much are MPs entitled to know about research grants? Not as much as they think
A parliamentary committee is asking for academics’ private information on a strange anti-DEI crusade
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The parliamentary committee seeks “the disaggregated data of all submitted [research] applications, whether funded or not, for all [graduate] student and faculty funding programs … between 2020 and 2025” including identity of evaluation committees, scores, comments, and applicants’ demographic info.
“The average person gives up roughly $100,000 in lifetime income by claiming [their Canadian pension benefit] at 60 instead of 70 … Why would anyone walk away from such a huge win? The answer isn’t math – it’s psychology.”
Gift link: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/a4b426f...
Gift link: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/a4b426f...
Fear is robbing Canadians of secure retirements. This simple CPP/QPP tweak can change that
Small, low-cost change would transform how Canadians approach decision of when to start their CPP/QPP pension benefits
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:34 AM
“The average person gives up roughly $100,000 in lifetime income by claiming [their Canadian pension benefit] at 60 instead of 70 … Why would anyone walk away from such a huge win? The answer isn’t math – it’s psychology.”
Gift link: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/a4b426f...
Gift link: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/a4b426f...
Reposted by Lisa Kramer
It's Getting Colder
Ted Harrison
1987
Ted Harrison
1987
November 4, 2025 at 12:00 AM
It's Getting Colder
Ted Harrison
1987
Ted Harrison
1987
“Those are the rare occasions when sports becomes something greater than itself — a narrative so transcendent that cannot be ignored, that forces its viewers to laugh in amazement at what has just transpired.” 🧢⚾️
November 2, 2025 at 5:20 PM
“Those are the rare occasions when sports becomes something greater than itself — a narrative so transcendent that cannot be ignored, that forces its viewers to laugh in amazement at what has just transpired.” 🧢⚾️
No regrets that I watched all seven games, with their seemingly never-ending innings. Two great teams gave it their all.
November 2, 2025 at 4:20 AM
No regrets that I watched all seven games, with their seemingly never-ending innings. Two great teams gave it their all.
Reposted by Lisa Kramer
me nine innings ago / me now
November 2, 2025 at 3:42 AM
me nine innings ago / me now
Reposted by Lisa Kramer
Blue Jays fans right now
November 2, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Blue Jays fans right now
I think the official MLB rule is we fall back and get 9 extra innings
If this game goes past daylight savings time a portal to The Good Dimension opens and we call all walk in!
November 2, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I think the official MLB rule is we fall back and get 9 extra innings
Blue Jays fans right now
November 2, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Blue Jays fans right now