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How default choice architecture impacts downstream behavior : a taxonomy, theoretical framework, and research agenda

Waisman, Rory M.; Derksen, Tim; Häubl, Gerald - 2026

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Decision rules in choice under risk

Seror, Avner - 2026

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Endowment inequality in common pool resource games : an experimental analysis

Milam, Garrett; Monaco, Andrew - 2026

This work addresses whether heterogeneity in player endowments influences investment decisions in common pool resource (CPR) games, shedding light on the relationship between inequality and economic decision making. We explore two theoretical avenues from behavioral economics-linear...

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Financial literacy and saving behavior : global cross-sectional evidence

Afonso, António; Rodrigues, Eduardo de Sá Fortes Leitão - 2026

Savings play a critical role in both individual financial well-being and economic development. This article examines the impact of financial literacy, income, educational level, and age on saving decisions across 136 countries, using data from the Global Financial Inclusion Database (2021) and...

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Financial literacy and the retirement gender gap : the role of cultural schemas

Green, Li-Noy; Herbst-Debby, Anat - 2026

This qualitative study explores the construction of financial literacy in the context of retirement among young women in Israel, in light of available cultural schemas. The research challenges economic models that rely solely on assumptions of rationality and self-interest, offering a...

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Confidence, overconfidence, and exposure in financial market decisions : experimental evidence from the U.S. stock market

Filiz, Ibrahim; Kirchhoff, Florian; Nahmer, Thomas; … - 2026

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The association between time discounting, hyperbolic discounting, and inflation expectations : evidence from large-scale survey data

Ogura, Kota; Yamaguchi, Manaka; Aizawa, Sakiho; Khan, … - 2026

Inflation expectations play a central role in monetary policy effectiveness, yet relatively little is known about how individual behavioral traits shape expectation formation. This study examines whether time discounting and hyperbolic discounting, key dimensions of intertemporal preferences,...

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False reality bias in treasury management

Reyes Marín, Óscar De los; Paz Gil, Iria; … - 2026

This study examines the False Reality Bias in treasury management, a cognitive distortion through which small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) infer financial stability from salient bank balances while overlooking pending obligations and cash-flow timing. Using a firm-level dataset of 50...

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Voter Switching and Policy Preferences: Evidence from Japan's 2025-2026 elections

Yamamura, Eiji; Todō, Yasuyuki - 2026

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Dynamics of financial decisions for 21st-century economic environments : the link between business performance, inclusion, and financial literacy of entrepreneurs in Latin America

Chuquimia-Rivero, Wladimir; García-Salirrosas, … - 2026

Entrepreneurs represent a key piece in the generation of jobs and contribution to the economy through the performance of their businesses. Taking into account that literacy and financial inclusion constitute a business facilitator for the development of businesses, this study was based on...

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Resilience and risk tolerance of small entrepreneurs in the Brazilian Northeast

Lima, Joyce Silva Soares de; Nobre, Liana Holanda Nepomuceno - 2026

This study examines the relationship between financial risk tolerance and organizational resilience among small business managers in the Brazilian Northeast, a region strongly affected by economic fragility and intensified uncertainty during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a positivist,...

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Training minds, shaping policies : evidence from a behavioral economics course for public officials

Márquez, Karina; Scartascini, Carlos G. - 2026

Cognitive biases are pervasive, even among policymakers whose decisions have far-reaching welfare consequences. Yet little is known about whether scalable training can mitigate policymakers' biases. This paper provides evidence from a randomized controlled trial embedded in an online behavioral...

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The endowment effect : bibliometric analysis and systematic literature review of over 40 years

Blaschke, Justus; Bühren, Christoph; Meier, Fabian; … - 2026

Purpose This paper synthesizes four decades of research on the endowment effect to clarify its theoretical foundations, empirical developments, and relevance across domains, while identifying key gaps for future behavioral economics research. Design/methodology/approach A structured literature...

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Do women ask for less? : evidence from reservation wages in Italy

Scoppa, Vincenzo; Spanò, Idola Francesca - 2025

Gender gaps in labor market outcomes have traditionally been attributed to differences in individual productivity or to discrimination. More recently, several studies have documented the role of gender differences in psychological attitudes. Rather than using data on realized wages, we rely on...

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The role of cognitive biases in conspiracy beliefs : a literature review

Gagliardi, Lorenzo - 2025

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Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance

Filiz, Ibrahim; Gubaydullina, Zulia; Kirchhoff, Florian; … - 2025

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Activist pressure and compliance with sustainability disclosure policy : experimental evidence from the U.K. modern slavery act

Lee, Matthew T.; Jasjit Singh; Shukla, Devanshee - 2025 - Revised version of 2023/09/STR

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Beyond fads and magic bullets : the promise of behavioral approaches in development economics

Flechtner, Svenja - 2025

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Beyond fads and magic bullets: The promise of behavioral approaches in development economics

Flechtner, Svenja - 2024

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Gratitude in fundraising : do "thank you in advance" and handwritten thank-you notes impact fundraising success?

Adena, Maja; Neyse, Levent; Huck, Steffen - 2025

While almost all charities rely on a set of donor appreciation strategies, their effectiveness for the success of fundraising campaigns is underresearched. Through two preregistered field studies conducted in collaboration with a leading German opera house (N=10,000), we explore the significance...

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Farmers' attitudes toward economic experimentation

Englberger, Leon; Colen, Liesbeth; Rommel, Jens - 2025

Economic experiments have gained popularity in Agricultural Economics. However, challenges in recruitment and acceptance of experimental methods among farmers persist. Surveying 406 Swedish farmers, we explore farmers' attitudes toward different types and features of economic experiments. Only a...

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Decline in job satisfaction and how it relates to investment decisions of the self-employed

Block, Jörn; Gnad, Miriam Isabell; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2025

Despite substantial research on job satisfaction in self-employment, we know little about the specific consequences for the venture when job satisfaction declines after an external shock. Taking the COVID-19 pandemic as an example of an external shock and drawing on a sample of nearly 7,000...

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Decline in job satisfaction and how it relates to investment decisions of the self-employed

Block, Jörn; Gnad, Miriam Isabell; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2025

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Decline in job satisfaction and how it relates to investment decisions of the self-employed

Block, Jörn; Gnad, Miriam Isabell; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2025

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The negative effects of small gift references in charitable bequest marketing

James, Russell N.; Routley, Claire - 2025

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Predictive capacities of social media in the financial market: ARX-GARCH model

Michalak, Joanna - 2025

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The work-habit premium : how daily routines predict CEO Remuneration in the S&P 500

Kendzia, Michael Jan; Diaz de la Rosa, Cyrill; Cruz, … - 2025

This study explores the relationship between the daily habits of S&P 500 CEOs and their financial remuneration. Using a mixed-method approach, the research analyzes time allocation across work, sleep, and exercise among 22 CEOs from leading publicly listed U.S. corporations. Regression analysis...

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Towards a consistent framework for analyzing behavioral design in smartphone apps

Ostrode, Nicholas - 2025

Design elements intended to influence the behavior of users are ubiquitous in smartphone apps. To date, there is no systematic framework that comprises the most common elements and their potential effects and risks to enable the analysis of behavioral design in smartphone apps. Building upon...

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Towards a consistent framework for analyzing behavioral design in smartphone apps

Ostrode, Nicholas - 2025

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An Anselmian case against libertarian paternalism

Meulders, Xavier - 2025

Libertarian paternalism is "the set of interventions aimed at overcoming the unavoidable cognitive biases and decisional inadequacies of an individual by exploiting them in such a way as to influence her decisions (in an easily reversible manner) towards choices that she herself would make if...

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Behavioral economics in EU : meat, ESG, macroeconomics

Karountzos, Panagiotis; Giannakopoulos, Nikolaos T.; … - 2025

This study examines the impact of macroeconomic and ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) factors on meat consumption in EU countries through a behavioral economics framework. Using panel data from 27 EU countries (2000-2021), the analysis applies Fixed Effects (FE), Random Effects (RE),...

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Identity as self-image

Bénabou, Roland; Henkel, Luca - 2025

We review the economic literature on self-image, which conceptualizes identity as a set of beliefs about one's core traits, values, goals, and social ties. Self-image concerns lead individuals to process information and make choices in non-standard ways that help affirm and protect certain...

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Identity as self-image

Bénabou, Roland; Henkel, Luca - 2025

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Framing biases in plea bargaining decisions : fairness under the law

Wilson, Brent M. - 2025

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The heterogeneity of hotel demand curves across consumers and contexts

Lin, Gabrielle; Chen, Jason Li; Song, Haiyan - 2025

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The power of words : investigating linguistic nudges to reduce meat consumption

Tagliapietra, Giulia; Mancinelli, Susanna; Mazzanti, … - 2025

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Behavioral economics, artificial intelligence and entrepreneurship : an updated framework for management

Saura, José Ramón; Bužinskienė, Rita - 2025

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A behavioral-pattern driven framework for research on financial consumer protection

Cho, Man - 2025

This study attempts to advance the argument that targeting specific behavioral patterns serves as a value-adding complement to the rule- and principle-based consumer protection policies in financial markets. To that end, two particular optimization frameworks are specified to elaborate a set of...

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The impact of corporate culture of dignity on cognitive biases, strategic decision-making and technical debt management in IT engineering

Korobkinа, Tetiana; Dashenkova, Natalia; Danchenko, Iryna - 2025

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Culture of dignity as the foundation of organizational culture of humanistic management : modern research in the IT industry

Korobkina, Tetiana; Dashenkova, Natalia - 2025

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Hysteresis in addictive consumption depends on time preferences

Dubois, Dimitri; Massin, Sophie; Nguyen-Van Phu; … - 2025

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When it really matters : algorithm aversion occurs most often when it is most harmful

Filiz, Ibrahim; Kirchhoff, Florian; Nahmer, Thomas; … - 2024

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Decarbonizing Saudi Arabia's residential sector : designing behavioral interventions for efficient and sustainable energy consumption

Almutairi, Hossa; Belaîd, Fateh; Darandary, Abdulelah - 2024

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A behavioral option value model of consumer product set choice

Gorji, Paniz; Donkers, Bas; Dellaert, Benedict G. C. - 2024

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Strategic synergies : unveiling the interplay of game theory and cultural dynamics in a globalized world

Wang, Yufei; Morkunas, Mangirdas; Wei, Jinzhao - 2024

This literature review focuses on cultural-related studies and game theory. First of all, it analyzes how social dynamics and strategic interactions can be shaped by different cultural environments. Secondly, it examines how cultural norms can affect strategic decision making and how game theory...

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Over- and underreaction to information

Ba, Cuimin; Bohren, J. Aislinn; Imas, Alex - 2024

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Semi-parametric approach to behavioral biases

Seror, Avner - 2024

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On the complexity of forming mental models

Kendall, Chad; Oprea, Ryan - 2024

We experimentally study how people form predictive models of simple data generating processes (DGPs), by showing subjects data sets and asking them to predict future outputs. We find that subjects: (i) often fail to predict in this task, indicating a failure to form a model, (ii) often cannot...

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Using framed field experiments to evaluate real-world policy interventions : a case study on changing environmental preferences

Reitmann, Ann-Kristin; Sievert, Maximiliane - 2024

Many policy interventions in the environmental sector aim at changing environmental preferences, because these provide the basis for adopting environmental conservation behavior or technologies. To evaluate these changes, standard measurement tools in survey-based impact evaluations have their...

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The double dividend of attention-releasing policies

Altmann, Steffen; Grunewald, Andreas; Radbruch, Jonas - 2024

We study the effects of two widely observed behavioral policy interventions⸻the simplification of complex decisions and the implementation of high-quality defaults. Based on a laboratory experiment featuring a dual-task paradigm, we demonstrate that these policies do not only improve decisions...

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Hayek's extended mind : on the (im)possibility of Austrian behavioural economics

Dekker, Erwin; Remic, Blaž - 2024

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Casting out the devil with Beelzebub? : on the interaction of loss aversion and algorithm aversion

Filiz, Ibrahim; Kirchhoff, Florian; Nahmer, Thomas; … - 2024

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Choice overload as an antidote to algorithm aversion : ineffective for men and exacerbating for women

Filiz, Ibrahim; Kirchhoff, Florian; Nahmer, Thomas; … - 2024

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Dynamic policy in the presence of social norms

Hintermann, Beat; Lange, Andreas - 2024

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Inequity aversion in subjective evaluations : evidence from referees' decisions in soccer

Morabito, Leo; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2024

Subjective evaluations in many contexts might be affected by decision-makers' social preferences. To explore this phenomenon, we use data from soccer referees' decisions. According to soccer rules, referees are expected to evaluate each episode independently, without taking into account previous...

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