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 ...

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 ...

Compass Lexecon, a subsidiary of FTI Consulting, Inc. (NYSE: FCN), today announced that Dr. Ori Heffetz, a Professor of ...

Behavioral economics studies how psychological tendencies influence economic decisions and outcomes. Concepts such as loss aversion and bounded rationality explain why people evaluate outcomes ...

Richard Thaler, a University of Chicago professor considered a founder of the field of behavioral economics, won the Nobel Memorial Prize in economics Monday for his research using psychology and ...

STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Suffolk University professors are bringing their expertise in behavioral economics to Gen Re through a unique business relationship designed to benefit the ...

The year 2017 may turn out to be when behavioral economics entered the mainstream after a leading practitioner in the field won a Nobel prize for his work. Behavioral economics is the study of how ...

Richard Thaler is one of the fathers of the decades-old study of behavioral economics that rejected the rational choice theory that people behave according to rational economic models. Thaler, a ...