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Legislating a definition of super overlooks the real motivators behind people saving for retirement.
Almost half of Americans have trouble saving, while average credit card balances have swelled to $6,000. Can we turn this around?
Behavioural economics can explain why stock markets have been so closely following the price of oil.
Still don’t know what to get your loved one? Here are four gift-giving taboos meant to be broken.
The Paris climate deal has been criticised for not being strong enough. But behavioural economics studies show weak deals can work out better in the long run.
“Nudge” economics have been embraced by policy makers. But how does it fare against more traditional ways of altering behaviour?
Behavioural economics offers some solutions to the problem of too much choice, but will only work if consumers feel they can make their own decisions.
Foundation essay: This article is part of a series marking the launch of The Conversation in the US. Our foundation essays are longer than our usual comment and analysis articles and take a wider look…
It took decades for behavioural economics to break into the mainstream. Now, after just a few years of “bias”, “anchoring” and “nudge”, some critics are already questioning whether it has anything left…
Some shares have new owners every second. Today much of the buying and selling is done by computers, but some still rely on human intuition – the gut feeling of the experienced trader. “Nobody can predict…
Australian households currently pay the second highest “honesty tax” in the world at $290 per household per year, levied by retailers to offset the $AU1.86 billion in losses they incur from customer theft…
We are faced with a myriad of choice in our lives - but an emerging body of work suggests the more choice we’re faced with, the more likely we’ll make a poor decision. The conundrum is called the “curse…
Whether choosing a dinner, a car, a spouse or an investment, experts now know what part of the brain our likes and dislikes are encoded, how we represent alternatives, and even how we choose. This has…
Earlier this week an impressive cast of academics, policy experts and business leaders gathered in Sydney at the inaugural Behavioural Exchange meeting to talk about “nudges”. Made famous by Richard Thaler…
In recent years, books like Predictably Irrational, Nudge and Thinking Fast and Slow have catapulted the findings of behavioural science (think cognitive psychology and behavioural economics) into new-found…
In George Orwell’s futuristic dystopia Nineteen Eighty-Four, O’Brien, an apparatchik of the Thought Police come sadistic torturer, famously boasts to the book’s protagonist Winston Smith, “We create human…
The recent budget announcement providing freedom for retirees to decide how to allocate their own pension pots was a bold and surprising move. However, a number of issues are clearly opened by this policy…
Greed is good. So is envy. So says Boris Johnson, who told the Centre for Policy Studies that the two deadly sins were “a valuable spur to economic activity”. Boris was invoking behavioural economics to…
Why do some people get stuck in poverty? Most answers to this question start with the idea that external constraints trap people in poverty. These constraints could take the form of malfunctioning credit…
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Professor of Economics, Tasmanian Behavioural Lab, University of Tasmania
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Senior Lecturer with School of Economics, Finance and Marketing and Behavioural Business Lab Member, RMIT University
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Professor of Economics, UNSW Sydney
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The University of Queensland
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Professor of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Cognitive Psychology and Director of the UNSW Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor of Marketing, University of Technology Sydney
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor of Behavioural Economics, Tasmanian Behavioural Lab, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Economics and Behavioural Science, University of Stirling
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Associate Professor of Economics, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor of Behavioural Economics , Newcastle Business School, University of Newcastle
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Professor of Economics, University of Technology Sydney
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Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Queensland University of Technology
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University Fellow in AI and Human Decision Making, University of Salford
