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Joshua Miller

Associate Professor
social sciences
business & economics
economics
hot hand fallacy
hot hand effect
science & technology
underconfidence
overconfidence
comparative ignorance
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Joshua Miller

 
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Joshua Miller

 

Joshua B. Miller is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Melbourne. His primary area of research is in behavioral and experimental economics, with a focus on experimental design and statistical methods.

His current research interests include information processing and belief formation in individual and collective decision making, and information aggregation in strategic settings and markets. His work has been published in journals such as Econometrica, the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Economic Perspectives, and Management Science.

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Subjective beliefs and confidence when facts are forgotten

Igor Kopylov, Joshua Miller

Journal article  |  2018  |  Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

Forgetting can be a salient source of uncertainty for subjective beliefs, confidence, and ambiguity attitudes. To investigate this..

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Surprised by the Hot Hand Fallacy? A Truth in the Law of Small Numbers

Joshua B Miller, Adam Sanjurjo

Journal article  |  2018  |  Econometrica

We prove that a subtle but substantial bias exists in a common measure of the conditional dependence of present outcomes on streak..

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Is it a Fallacy to Believe in the Hot Hand in the NBA Three-Point Contest?

Joshua Miller, Adam Sanjurjo

Report  |  2018

The hot hand fallacy has long been considered a massive and widespread cognitive illusion with important implications in economics..

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Social Risk and the Dimensionality of Intentions

Jeffrey V Butler, Joshua B Miller

Journal article  |  2018  |  Management Science

Previous research has documented a behavioral distinction between “social risk,” or risk caused by human factors, and natural risk..

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Why Blame?

Mehmet Y Gurdal, Joshua B Miller, Aldo Rustichini

Journal article  |  2013  |  Journal of Political Economy

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Applied Economics
Expanding Knowledge
Microeconomics
Cognitive Sciences
Economic Theory
Econometrics
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Credentials

Positions

Associate Professor

Economics

Education

Doctor of Philosophy, Economics

University of Minnesota

Masters, Mathematical Statistics

University of California - Santa Barbara

Bachelor of Arts, Economics and Mathematics

University of California - Santa Barbara

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