Associate Professor of Behavioral Decision Making at the University of Leeds Business School

Research Papers/Publications

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Working Papers

  1. At the Top of the Mind: Peak Prices and the Disposition Effect ()
    (with Hume, D., Gathergood, J., Loewenstein, G., and Stewart, N.)
    Forthcoming at Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics

  2. Attention Utility: Evidence from Individual Investors ()
    (with Gathergood, J., Loewenstein, G., and Stewart, N.)
    Forthcoming at The Review of Economic Studies

  3. Preventing Payments Fraud in the FinTech Era: New Evidence from a Behavioural Experiment ()
    (with Akesson, J., and Gathergood, J.)

  4. Populism, Identity, Nationalism and Equality: The PINE Model
    (with Huang, Z., and Brown, G.)

  5. The Asymmetric Rank Effect for Winning and Losing Portfolios ()

  6. Spending Entropy and Future Financial Distress ()
    (with Muggleton, N., Gathergood, J., Leake, D., and Stewart, N.)

  7. Social Status not Relative Deprivation: The Ubiquity, Purity and Robustness of Relative Rank of Income Effects on Wellbeing in 90 Nations
    (with De Neve, J., and Brown, G.)
    Revise and resubmit at Nature Communications

  8. Surprisingly Robust Violations of Stochastic Dominance Despite Splitting Training: A Quasi Adversarial Collaboration ()
    (with Stewart N., and Birnbaum M.)
    Forthcoming at Judgment and Decision Making

Publications

  1. Quispe-Torreblanca, E., Gathergood, J., Loewenstein, G., and Stewart, N. (2024). Investor Logins and the Disposition Effect. Management Science (link)

    NOTE: An earlier version of this paper was entitled “Investor Attention, Reference Points and the Disposition Effect”. Papers referring to our work before August 2021 (including our own papers) cited the earlier title.

  2. Brown, G. D. A., Quispe-Torreblanca, E., & Gathergood, J. (in press). Money, Methodology, and Happiness: Using Big Data to Study Causal Relationships Between Income and Well-Being. In Pogrebna, G., & Hills, T. (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Behavioural Data Science. Cambridge University Press. (link)

  3. Brown, G., Walasek, L., Mullett, T., Quispe-Torreblanca, E., Fincher, C., Kosinski, M., and Stillwell, D. (2023). Political Attitudes and Disease Threat: Regional Pathogen Stress is Associated with Conservative Ideology Only for Older Individuals. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (link)

  4. Quispe-Torreblanca, E., Brown, G., Boyce, C., Wood, A., & De Neve, J. (2020). Inequality, Well-being, and Social Rank: Income Increases Buy More Life Satisfaction in More Equal Countries. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (link)

  5. Quispe-Torreblanca, E., Stewart N, Gathergood J, Loewenstein G (2019). The Red, the Black, and the Plastic: Paying Down Credit Card Debt for Hotels not Sofas. Management Science (link, code)

  6. Quispe-Torreblanca, E., & Stewart, .N (2019). Causal Peer Effects in Police Misconduct. Nature Human Behaviour (link, code)

  7. Birnbaum, M. H., & Quispe-Torreblanca, E. (2018). TEMAP2. R: True and Error Model Analysis Program in R. Judgment and Decision Making. (link, code)

  8. Birnbaum, M. H., Navarro-Martinez, D., Ungemach, C., Stewart, N., & Quispe-Torreblanca, E. G. (2016). Risky Decision Making: Testing for Violations of Transitivity Predicted by an Editing Mechanism. Judgment and Decision Making . (link, code)

Research on Covid-19

Gathergood, J., Gunzinger, F., Guttman-Kenney, B., Quispe-Torreblanca, E., & Stewart, N. (2021). Levelling Down and the COVID-19 Lockdowns: Uneven Regional Recovery in UK Consumer Spending. Covid Economics. (link)

Writings for the Economics Observatory

How uneven is the recovery in consumer spending across UK regions?

Where are the UK’s levelling up funds most needed?

Reports

Quispe-Torreblanca, E., and Gathergood, J. (2024). How Do Risk Warnings Impact Investment Choice?. Research conducted in collaboration with The Investing and Savings Alliance. INFINITY, University of Nottingham. (technical report) (summary)

Hodgson, J., Wade, K., Stewart, N., Hearty, K., Keyneswoon, N., Quispe-Torreblanca, E., and Mullet, T. (2017). Public Confidence and Crime Reduction: The Impact of Propensity Property Marking: Interim Report. Centre for Operational Police Research, University of Warwick. (link)