AUTHOR RECORD · ERIK POSTNIEKS

Computational economist, research engineer, and independent research founder.

Erik Postnieks founded the Center for Decision Accounting as an independent research vehicle. The current program combines computational economics, multi-agent experiments, welfare measurement, formal claim development, open standards, and public learning infrastructure.

Research Methods Replication Corrections Author record

Canonical public record: https://decisionaccounting.org/author/

Working paper and public package

Strongest current research artifact

The strongest current artifact is the Calvano/DRCS v1.2 computational experiment. It has public code, saved results, robustness checks, a compute audit, and checksums. It is self-authored working research with no independent replication or journal acceptance listed.

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Published in 1988

External publication record

Postnieks co-authored “The Smart Crash of October 19th” with Avner Arbel and Steven A. Carvell in Harvard Business Review, May–June 1988, pages 124–136. The public citation is independently traceable through Steven Carvell’s Cornell faculty vita.

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Independent research organization

Current institutional position

Founder and Principal Researcher of the Center for Decision Accounting since 2024. The site does not claim a current university appointment, journal editorship, external fellowship, or institutional endorsement.

Research biography Institutional review

Mixed maturity

Current evidence boundary

The program includes one externally published historical article, current working papers and code, author-proposed theory and standards, an extensive curriculum, and held numerical work. Most current claims are self-authored and have not yet accumulated independent replication, peer-reviewed publication, or external adoption evidence.

Claim-by-claim status Corrections and holds

EDUCATION AND WORK

Traceable facts and remaining verification questions.

Item	Public record	Diligence boundary
Cornell University	B.A. Economics, 1988	Institution should verify directly during formal diligence.
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth	M.B.A. Finance, 1993	Institution should verify directly during formal diligence.
Quantitative-finance career	Bankers Trust; founder roles at Parametric Capital Management and Wooster Asset Management	Assets, performance, titles, and audit history require primary-document verification.
Current research	Public papers, code, curriculum, standards, and frozen claim corpus on this site	Artifact existence is directly inspectable; scholarly reception and institutional impact remain open.