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 📉📈
Operator I’d like to report a crime in progress on a moving subway
November 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Operator I’d like to report a crime in progress on a moving subway
My watch has me confused with someone else. I’m certain I did zero mindfulness sessions this past week.
November 24, 2025 at 2:34 PM
My watch has me confused with someone else. I’m certain I did zero mindfulness sessions this past week.
Bluesky community:
Nothing you do on this site today will be as important as going home safely to your family & loved ones
Nothing you do on this site today will be as important as going home safely to your family & loved ones
November 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Bluesky community:
Nothing you do on this site today will be as important as going home safely to your family & loved ones
Nothing you do on this site today will be as important as going home safely to your family & loved ones
I mentioned this approach to a colleague who does research on the use of AI in education. She replied, “Guess what some students do in this situation. They prompt ChatGPT to write a report on the subject and an accompanying report explaining how and why the first report is wrong.”
November 24, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I mentioned this approach to a colleague who does research on the use of AI in education. She replied, “Guess what some students do in this situation. They prompt ChatGPT to write a report on the subject and an accompanying report explaining how and why the first report is wrong.”
I’m going to rush out and buy this medical device endorsed by … an anonymous doctor
November 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I’m going to rush out and buy this medical device endorsed by … an anonymous doctor
I managed to get a bloody papercut from a Canadian Blood Services fundraising letter, how's you're day going?
November 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I managed to get a bloody papercut from a Canadian Blood Services fundraising letter, how's you're day going?
Sad to report that inbound spam Teams calls seem to be unencumbered by the Cloudflare outage
November 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Sad to report that inbound spam Teams calls seem to be unencumbered by the Cloudflare outage
🚨🚨1st Annual University of Toronto Asset Pricing and Investments Workshop 🚨🚨
📅 Submission Deadline: December 28, 2025
📢 Notification of Acceptance: January 31, 2026
🏛️ Conference Date: May 9, 2026
📈 Keynote Speaker: Kent Daniel, Columbia University
Details: www.rotman.utoronto.ca/faculty-and-...
📅 Submission Deadline: December 28, 2025
📢 Notification of Acceptance: January 31, 2026
🏛️ Conference Date: May 9, 2026
📈 Keynote Speaker: Kent Daniel, Columbia University
Details: www.rotman.utoronto.ca/faculty-and-...
November 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
🚨🚨1st Annual University of Toronto Asset Pricing and Investments Workshop 🚨🚨
📅 Submission Deadline: December 28, 2025
📢 Notification of Acceptance: January 31, 2026
🏛️ Conference Date: May 9, 2026
📈 Keynote Speaker: Kent Daniel, Columbia University
Details: www.rotman.utoronto.ca/faculty-and-...
📅 Submission Deadline: December 28, 2025
📢 Notification of Acceptance: January 31, 2026
🏛️ Conference Date: May 9, 2026
📈 Keynote Speaker: Kent Daniel, Columbia University
Details: www.rotman.utoronto.ca/faculty-and-...
Whatever you do, DO NOT invite Miss Manners out for sushi.
“Use your chopsticks to pull out the insides and eat them separately. Then … squish the remaining rice and seaweed together and eat it in two bites or use the side of the chopstick to cut it in half.”
www.washingtonpost.com/advice/2025/...
“Use your chopsticks to pull out the insides and eat them separately. Then … squish the remaining rice and seaweed together and eat it in two bites or use the side of the chopstick to cut it in half.”
www.washingtonpost.com/advice/2025/...
November 14, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Whatever you do, DO NOT invite Miss Manners out for sushi.
“Use your chopsticks to pull out the insides and eat them separately. Then … squish the remaining rice and seaweed together and eat it in two bites or use the side of the chopstick to cut it in half.”
www.washingtonpost.com/advice/2025/...
“Use your chopsticks to pull out the insides and eat them separately. Then … squish the remaining rice and seaweed together and eat it in two bites or use the side of the chopstick to cut it in half.”
www.washingtonpost.com/advice/2025/...
I accidentally clicked on a bra ad on Facebook and now my entire feed is bras
a close up of a cartoon character with the word hmm written on the bottom
Alt: Marge Simpson furrowing her brow and saying “Hmm.”
media.tenor.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:27 AM
I accidentally clicked on a bra ad on Facebook and now my entire feed is bras
Reposted by Lisa Kramer
I know that the job market is rough this year for Econ PhDs. @utoronto.ca has expanded its postdoc funding. If you are on the market and work on school finance or early childhood education and are interested in a PostDoc, let me know! #econsky #educsky postdoc.sgs.utoronto.ca/current-post...
Postdoctoral Talent Initiative – School of Graduate Studies Postdoctoral Fellows
postdoc.sgs.utoronto.ca
November 13, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I know that the job market is rough this year for Econ PhDs. @utoronto.ca has expanded its postdoc funding. If you are on the market and work on school finance or early childhood education and are interested in a PostDoc, let me know! #econsky #educsky postdoc.sgs.utoronto.ca/current-post...
Reposted by Lisa Kramer
The NBER Race and Stratification Working Group will have its annual meeting on Friday, March 27, 2026. Francisca Antman, Bocar Ba, Robynn Cox and I are organizing the program. Submit your paper by the December 11, 2025 deadline! @nber.org #EconSky
www.nber.org/conferences/...
www.nber.org/conferences/...
Economics of Race and Stratification, Spring 2026
www.nber.org
November 12, 2025 at 11:16 AM
The NBER Race and Stratification Working Group will have its annual meeting on Friday, March 27, 2026. Francisca Antman, Bocar Ba, Robynn Cox and I are organizing the program. Submit your paper by the December 11, 2025 deadline! @nber.org #EconSky
www.nber.org/conferences/...
www.nber.org/conferences/...
How does gender identity relate to pension plans?
0.33% of the Canadian population aged 15+ identified as transgender or non-binary in 2021.
This article discusses implications for actuarial considerations like life expectancy and commuted value in pensions.
www.benefitscanada.com/archives_/be...
0.33% of the Canadian population aged 15+ identified as transgender or non-binary in 2021.
This article discusses implications for actuarial considerations like life expectancy and commuted value in pensions.
www.benefitscanada.com/archives_/be...
November 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
How does gender identity relate to pension plans?
0.33% of the Canadian population aged 15+ identified as transgender or non-binary in 2021.
This article discusses implications for actuarial considerations like life expectancy and commuted value in pensions.
www.benefitscanada.com/archives_/be...
0.33% of the Canadian population aged 15+ identified as transgender or non-binary in 2021.
This article discusses implications for actuarial considerations like life expectancy and commuted value in pensions.
www.benefitscanada.com/archives_/be...
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...