Lisa Kramer

@lisakramer.com

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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

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Astro from the Jetsons wearing an astronaut helmet
Data Sciences Institute – Claude API Credit Award July 15, 2026 • Reply to OSI Research The University of Toronto Data Sciences Institute (DSI) is pleased to announce our Claude API Credit Award competition. OVERVIEW Claude Code Projects: Up to $10,000 worth of API credits Claude Research Projects: Up to $100,000 worth of API credits Duration: 1 year Purpose: Claude API Credit Awards provide access to Anthropic’s Claude API to support multi/interdisciplinary training and collaborative research in data sciences that include faculty from the University of Toronto and funding partner research institutions.
A cat in a kennel on the Genius Bar counter at an Apple Store.
Big Flowerpot in the foreground, a boat in the background
An Ontario ferry that takes cars and passengers across Georgian Bay (Lake Huron)
So so so many spiders outside my hotel room windows 🕷️🕷️🕸️🕷️🕷️
A blonde squirrel in a tree
Three squirrels with blonde tails chase each other and have fun
"Use the arrows to pick the image where the character is pointing at the shortest road, as shown in the leftmost image (4 of 10)"
A photo of two gentlemen who could easily be the main characters in Waiting for Godot. That stand in dappled light in front of a stately building, under a tree, and next to a bus stop. They appear to be taking part in street witnessing or promotional religious education, with a freestanding sign that reads “Peace—When?”
Speakers at an ICD/Rotman event: Governance, Crisis and Corporate Leadership
Abstract We use an incentivized consumption measure to assess the impacts of watching a roughly 15-minute video about industrial-scale pork production on sustainable food consumption. We find that the demand for (more sustainable) plant-based meals increases by 252.7 percent while the demand for meat-containing meals decreases by 27.0 percent immediately after watching the video. Notably, these effects exhibit some persistence. Compared to baseline levels, we find that demand at a one-week follow-up is still 121.8 percent higher for plant-based meals and 13.5 percent lower for meat-containing meals. The video appears to have a particularly large impact on the demand for pork, with immediate and one-week decreases of 45.2 and 30.1 percent. We also observe smaller yet still significant decreases in the demand for other meat products, with immediate and one-week reductions of 24.0 and 10.6 percent, suggesting that information about industrial-scale pork production can affect preferences for other types of meat. Overall, the video appears to be quite effective in promoting plant-based eating compared to others tested in the literature. Even so, the relatively low baseline popularity of pork compared to other meats in our sample suggests that the impact of the video may be limited by its focus on pork, raising the possibility that a broader portrayal of industrial meat production could be even more effective in promoting sustainable food consumption.
Two gentlemen photographing BC Ferries ferries while standing on the deck of a BC Ferries ferry
A toy BC Ferries ferry in the original box, pictured on the sun deck of a BC Ferries ferry
A view of Chesterman Beach. Sand and grass in the foreground. Rock formations beyond. Frank Island in the background and several layers of clouds in the sky.
Excerpt from the Wikipedia entry for butter tarts: Cultural identity Butter tarts are an integral part of Central Canadian cuisine and are objects of cultural pride of many communities across Ontario and other provinces in central Canada.[14] This cultural and community connection with the tart has spawned butter tart themed tourism such as "Ontario's Best Butter Tart Festival" in Midland, Ontario, the Butter Tart festival at Muskoka Lakes, Ontario,[15] the trademarked "Butter Tart Trail" at Wellington North, Ontario, and the "Butter Tart Tour" in Kawarthas Northumberland, Ontario.[16] The two competing associations have since resolved their dispute, called "The Butter Tart Wars" by Canadian Living,[17] through the mutual agreement to modify "The Butter Tart Tour" to "Kawarthas Northumberland Butter Tart Tour".[18] The first Kawarthas Northumberland Butter Tart Tour Taste-Off was launched at the Flavour Festival in Peterborough on Sunday, April 28, 2013, where four bakeries were crowned winners by a panel of celebrity judges. Ontario's Best Butter Tart Festival and Contest is an annual event held in Midland, Ontario drawing over 60,000 attendees for the one day event.[19] The contest portion of the festival attracts bakers from across Ontario, and is Canada's largest butter tart–themed celebration, with over 50,000 tarts sold in the festival market in 2014, and has grown to over 300,000 tarts sold in 2025.[20] National Geographic recognized the significance of the butter tart in an article on Georgian Bay, Ontario. In October 2013, referring to a stand in Wasaga Beach, they stated that "It's the homemade Canadian butter tarts – flaky crust with gooey pecan filling – that set this place apart from other lakeside ice cream stands."[21] The production of butter tarts in Canada slowed after a flood in Quebec, in April 2019, striking a major production centre. Global News reported the Vachon bakery in Sainte-Marie-de-Beauce had to be evacuated after a long-term flood…
Holding a bottle of Dillon’s Negroni in font of a fire pit with a lake view in the background
View over Lake Erie through the window of a beach cottage
Looking down into a cocktail
Holding my ticket to the premier of “This Above All: The Theatrical Life of Antoni Cimolino” at #hotdocs
Oura Ring screenshot showing a sleep score of 51, a steps target of 4,000, and steps progress of 6,565 (“Goal reached. You exceeded your activity goal by 60%!””).
Visiting Andy Warhol’s depiction of Elizabeth Taylor at the Art Institute of Chicago. Photo credit: Mark Kamstra
Telephone wires in a scramble, captured as an internet technician tries to fix our line
A view of a portion of Biidaasige Park in Toronto, including new landscaping and part of the mouth of the Don River
Text message from a vendor suggesting that is you have questions about an item ready for pickup you can call them at 123-4567890.
Storefront of Bunner’s bakery in Toronto
A variety of plant-based cheeses with olives and berries on a plate
A young snail (slowly) makes their way along a trail
Movie poster for the world premiere and Hot Docs screening of a film: THIS ABOVE ALL: THE THEATRICAL LIFE OF ANTONI CIMOLINO A BARRY AVRICH FILM | PRODUCED BY MARK SELBY MONDAY APRIL 21, 2026 7:45PM - FILM SCREENING TIFF LIGHTBOX 350 KING STREET WEST
A spare tire, still in shipping packaging, which depicts a stylized tire and the brand name “Modern Spare”.
Staedtler non-permanent markers, commonly found in the toolkit of professors back in the day when we wrote on transparency films while staring into the lightbulb of an overhead projector, which I do not miss
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A photo of an elevator door at Women’s College Hospital featuring a photo of a patient, Lisa Kramer, and her doctor, Heidi Schmidt. “Everyone here makes me feel so welcome and cared for” - Lisa Kramer, grateful radiology patient
A store entrance with a message for potential shoppers: “No Masks”. Other restrictions: “No Food/Drink” and “No Pets”.
A list of all the films nominated for a 2026 Academy Award across 24 categories, with checkmarks denoting the ones I’ve seen so far
A plushie pigeon held up against a painting of coloruful birds on a wire
A bowl of packaged gummy bears, protein snacks, cookies, and other vegan treats
Would that be your Espresso at [location redacted]? [image of an espresso] No Yes
A representation of immigration for Canada and several provinces appears in four plots. The data for Canada are represented as an identical blue line that appears in all four plots. Presumably the red line in each plot corresponds to a different province. The x-axis is labeled in only one plot. Had a different line style been used for each province, the four plots could easily have been collapsed into one plot, rendering the information easier to understand.
Ice hockey Feb 22, 8:10 a.m. Men's tournament - Final - Gold event Canada vs TBD
Photo of a TV screen showing Canadian hockey fans and hockey players in Milan celebrating the Team Canada semi -final men’s hockey win
Screenshot of a CRA webpage, “Overview of installment reminders”: Under the “Payment due date (Box 1)” column are dates including “coolJune 15, 2026”, “coolSeptember2025”, and “coolJune 2025”.
Horseshoe Falls at Niagara Fall, Ontario, with lots of ice
In the foreground, a pamphlet titled “Weather winter, together. Your guide to winter in Toronto” with a winter view through a window in the background
Between airplane seats, a passenger wearing a toque watches the Canadian men’s Olympics curling team at play
The view of (probably) Mount Ranier through an airplane window
A mug of espresso, a bowl of granola with oat milk and fresh berries, and a plate of tofu scramble
Hotel room with comfy chair incorrectly positioned for anyone seated to enjoy the view at its back
PowerPoint slide projected on a screen at a conference dinner: Fecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT) FMT used in traditional Chinese Medicine as early as 4th century • Ge Hong - Handbook of Emergency Treatments • Proposed therapy for food poisoning and severe diarrhea • "Yellow soup" or "golden soup" transferring gut microbiota from healthy to the sick
The view over La Jolla from the Survivance Conference Center on UCSD campus
"Potential" and the Gender Promotion Gap Alan Benson Danielle Li Kelly Shue American Economic Review vol. 116, no. 2, February 2026 (pp. 375–417)
Abstract We assess whether men and women are treated differently when presenting their economics research. We collected data across thousands of seminars, job market talks, and conference presentations, leveraging human judgment and audio-processing algorithms to measure the number, tone, and type of interruptions. Within a seminar series, women are interrupted more than men. This holds when controlling for characteristics of the presenter, paper, and audience. Interruptions that are negative in tenor or tone or cut off the presenter mid-sentence increase for women presenters. We also find greater engagement of female audience members with female presenters, suggesting a potential role model effect.
A bee hotel during a winter storm with about two feet of snow on top its roof