(Reuters) - Can peer pressure make delinquent taxpayers pony up what they owe the government? Behavioural economists say it can, and some tax agencies in both the United States and Britain are taking ...

Behavioural economics is an interdisciplinary field that integrates insights from psychology, sociology, and neuroscience into traditional economic models to better explain decision‐making in ...

Economists like to model people as rational creatures who make self-interested decisions. But humans don’t act that way. Why do investors, politicians and ordinary people act against their best ...

A section of students participants of the Writers' Forum hold Generation Next pull outs during Forum's meeting at Mang'u High School in Kiambu on May 28 2015. This year’s Nobel Prize in economics went ...

Pioneer of behavioural economics Richard Thaler discusses the arc of his career, from ‘heretic’ to Nobel Prize winner, and ...

Consumer decisions today are no longer driven by logic alone; they reflect complex psychological and economic interactions. This is where behavioural economics plays a vital role revealing how ...

In this public event, Martin Kocher, Governor of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (Austrian Central Bank), will explore the role that behavioural economics can play in monetary policy. Monetary ...

Behavioural economics has taught us that individuals can be poor at making optimal decisions. Shlomo Benartzi, a global ...

Peter Martin is Economics Editor of The Conversation. If you are anything like me, the nearer you get to a deadline, the more desperately you want to postpone it, no matter how much harder that makes ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Economists like to model people as rational creatures who make self-interested decisions. But humans don’t act ...