Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Behavioral economics helps investors understand irrational market behaviors and customer choices. Examples of behavioral economic theories include loss aversion and sunk-cost fallacy. Recognizing ...

Behavioral economics sheds light on most every day activities and why we consume goods and services the way we do, why we make certain choices about ourselves or others, and how we decide courses of ...

Behavioral economics, it seems, might just have a bias problem of its own. Once dismissed as little more than psychobabble, the discipline, which marries classical economics with psychology, has won ...

Sure, the book Nudge may have become a cultural phenomenon that ended up selling millions of copies. And, OK, it resulted in hundreds of governments and countless companies around the world adopting ...

People donate to charity for many reasons. Hardly an objectionable claim. Generosity. Self-satisfaction. Guilt. Reciprocity. Duty. Prestige. People also do not donate to charity for many reasons. Also ...

If you’re reading this article, you’re likely familiar with, or at least intrigued by, the concept of behavioral economics (also known as BE). The study of how humans really make decisions has ...

The field of behavioral economics blends ideas from psychology and economics, and it can provide valuable insight that individuals are not behaving in their own best interests. Behavioral economics ...