I am an applied economist. I am most well-known for my work on Informational Cascades. However, I have also worked on stock market prediction, earnings manipulation, dividend policy, issuing activity, IPOs, evolutionary behavior (overconfidence), law and economics, bankruptcy, and bankruptcy design, liquidity and financial market runs, government bailouts, divestment, and who knows what. (I am quite old!) My methods are whatever suits the question. It's been fun — like a kid in a candy store. I will settle down when I grow up. I have been very involved with bringing more critiques to finance and economics with the CFR journal. Right now, I am fascinated by climate change. In some aspects, it seems to me that the literature (on all sides) is trying to saddle the horse backwards — except there is no horse.