Predicting the improbable: Evidence from playing the lottery
Long Title: Predicting the improbable Teaser: Japan’s trio of tsunami, earthquake, and nuclear disaster has left the world stunned. As this column points out, even the experts were shocked. But while...
View ArticleStrategic default and “borrower runs”
Long Title: Borrower runs: Behavioural motives and their policy implications Teaser: One of the most iconic images from the subprime mortgage crisis in 2007 was the queue of people outside the British...
View ArticleNudging with information: a randomized field experiment on reminders and...
Teaser: Do 'nudges' help people stick to their goals? The authors of CEPR DP8571 find that quick reminders can promote virtuous behaviour without the need for monetary incentives.Topics: Frontiers of...
View ArticleRiots and revolutions in the digital age
Long Title: Riots, revolutions, democratisation, and information cascades Teaser: For the Arab Spring it was Twitter; for the summer riots in London it was BlackBerry Messenger. This column explores...
View ArticleThe invisible hand meets the invisible gorilla: Economics meets psychology
Long Title: The invisible hand meets the invisible gorilla: The economics and psychology of scarce attention Teaser: Have economists been asleep at the wheel? This column reports from a conference on...
View ArticleWomen and the corridors of power: New evidence
Long Title: Gender and competition Teaser: At this week’s summit on the future of the euro, Angela Merkel will be one of few women in a room full of men. This column provides experimental evidence to...
View ArticleBeliefs and the stock market
Long Title: Household’s beliefs and financial decisions Teaser: How to ordinary people form their beliefs about the economy? These beliefs then shape the decisions they make and can, if widely held,...
View ArticleShame, peer effects, and sexual behaviour
Long Title: Shame, peer effects, and sexual behaviour: Some evidence from US high schools Teaser: Does shame impact teenage sexual behaviour in modern times, when contraception is readily available?...
View ArticleNudges to nudge up the savings rate
Long Title: Nudges to nudge up the savings rate Teaser: As if today’s problems aren’t enough, in the coming years Europe faces what economists are calling a ‘demographic timebomb’, with ageing...
View ArticleThe war of the sexes
Teaser: Paul Seabright of the Toulouse School of Economics talks to Viv Davies about his book, "The War of the Sexes: how conflict and cooperation have shaped men and women from pre-history to the...
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