Behavioral Economics

How psychological factors shape economic decisions.

Parent category: Economics

Articles (6)

• Anchoring
  How an initial number — even an arbitrary one — pulls later numerical judgments toward itself, and why expertise barely helps.
• The Framing Effect
  Logically identical choices made differently depending on wording: gains invite caution, losses invite risk.
• Mental Accounting
  Thaler's finding that people partition money into labeled mental accounts and spend, save, and regret differently by account.
• Nudge Theory and Choice Architecture
  How defaults, order, and framing in the choice environment predictably steer decisions without forbidding options or changing incentives.
• Present Bias and Hyperbolic Discounting
  Why the same one-day delay looms larger today than next month: preference reversals, β-δ models, and commitment devices.
• Loss Aversion
  The behavioral-economics finding that losses are felt more strongly than equivalent gains, formalized in prospect theory.

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