James Symons-Hicks

Research
Publications
2023
The Influence of Market Dynamics on Retail Investor Attention
UCL Journal of Economics, 2023, 2(1), 36–64
Working Papers
2026
This Time It's Different: The Role of Women's Employment in Recessions
with Titan Alon, Matthias Doepke, Jane Olmstead-Rumsey and Michèle Tertilt
Working Paper, July 2026
Paper
From Learning to Earning: Financial Literacy and Wealth Accumulation in the UK
Working Paper, January 2026
2025
Q-Learning and Algorithmic Market Making: Loss-free, Collusive, or Competitive Prices?
with Antonio Guarino and Philippe Jehiel
Working Paper, July 2025
Revise and resubmit, Review of Financial Studies
Paper UCL Econ Brief
Research Assistance

Ordered starting with most recent.

MD

Agostinelli, F., Doepke, M., Sorrenti, G. and Zilibotti, F., 2025. A Stairway to Success: How Parenting Shapes Culture and Social Stratification (No. w33963). National Bureau of Economic Research.

Other work-in-progress projects related to family macroeconomics.

EI

Ilzetzki, E. and Reichardt, H., 2026. GI Jobs: The Macroeconomic Effects of Defense Employment.

Ilzetzki, E., 2025. Guns and growth: The economic consequences of defense buildups (No. 2). Kiel Report.

Ilzetzki, E. and Simonelli, S., 2025. Measuring productivity dispersion: Lessons from counting one-hundred million ballots.

Other work-in-progress projects related to fiscal policy, productivity, and growth.

AG

Angrisani, M., Cipriani, M., Guarino, A., Kendall, R. and Ortiz de Zarate Pina, J., 2026. Risk Preferences at the Time of COVID-19: An Experiment with Professional Traders and Students. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance.

Cavatorta, E., Guarino, A. and Huck, S., 2024. Social Learning with Partial and Aggregate Information: Experimental Evidence. Games and Economic Behavior.

Angrisani, M., Cipriani, M., Guarino, A., Kendall, R. and Zarate-Pina, J., 2024. Non-Cognitive Skills at the Time of COVID-19: An Experiment with Professional Traders and Students. The Quarterly Journal of Finance.

Angrisani, M., Cipriani, M. and Guarino, A., 2022. Strategic Sophistication and Trading Profits: An Experiment with Professional Traders and Students. FRB of New York Staff Report, 1044.

Other work-in-progress projects related to strategic sophistication, trading, and experimental economics.