James Symons-Hicks

Publications

The Influence of Market Dynamics on Retail Investor Attention

UCL Journal of Economics, 2023, 2(1), 36–64

Working Papers

From Learning to Earning: Financial Literacy and Wealth Accumulation in the UK

Working Paper, January 2026

Media The Times

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

Unravelling the Influence of Retail Investors on Liquidity and Volatility in UK Markets

UCL BSc Economics Dissertation

Works in Progress

Pension Reform and the Distribution of Demand: Consumption, Saving, and Capital Allocation under DB and DC Systems

with Nicholas Tokay

Research Assistance

Ordered starting with most recent.

Matthias Doepke

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 working papers related to family macroeconomics.

Ethan Ilzetzki

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 working papers related to fiscal policy, productivity, and growth.

Antonio Guarino

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., Guarino, A., Kendall, R. and Ortiz de Zarate, J., 2023. Risk preferences at the Time of COVID-19: An Experiment with Professional Traders and Students. FRB of New York Staff Report, (927).

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 working papers related to strategic sophistication, trading, and experimental economics.