U.S. economists may be barely holding on by their fingernails over the current state of the American economy, but strangely, ...

BBVA in Switzerland, together with the bank's Behavioral Economics team, has launched ‘Investing in the Mirror.' ...

Most people don’t make bad money choices on purpose. They happen quietly. You grab a coffee on the way to work, buy something ...

A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine calls for increased collaboration between behavioral economists and policymakers and examines the future research ...

For the last few decades, behavioral economics has endeavored to identify the biases that impact our choices, as well as the “nudges” to help improve our decision-making and behavior. As those ...

Urban environments function as sophisticated psychological laboratories where every element influences consumer behavior.

Behavioral economists call this debt aversion , the tendency to feel anxiety or shame about debt, which ironically leads us to take fewer productive steps toward paying it off. It’s like knowing there ...

The long reach of life experience affects real-world economic outcomes, for policymakers and consumers alike On October 29, 1929, the roaring twenties came to a sudden close in the United States. In ...

Ellen Van Loo, an expert in the field of consumer food behavior, has joined Purdue University’s Department of Agricultural ...