Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Explore the bottom-up investing approach, focusing on individual stock analysis for potential growth, and compare its benefits to top-down strategies.

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

Behavioral economics, like “lived experience,” existed long before anyone thought a special and seemingly redundant name was required. To Adam Smith, economics was made of human behavior in all its ...

Ever bought a monthly gym membership thinking it would make you go more often? Or chosen a health insurance policy with a lower deductible, even though the premium was much higher? You’re not alone – ...

It is a bit difficult to say what criteria should be used to judge the success or failure of a research initiative on the scale of merging psychology and economics. Two reasonable criteria, at least ...

This fall’s Foltyn Seminar brought together a leading expert in behavioral economics and key figures of community programs in Delaware to better understand how individuals make decisions and how those ...

Behavioral economics combines information about human behavior and outcomes with more standard methods of economic analysis. Behavioral economics has been applied in various contexts such as ...

The latest readings on consumer sentiment are sounding alarms across the financial world. While hard data on the economy can be negative, only when consumer optimism drops do we see a decrease in ...

In this edition of the RGE Report, we’ll discover how insights from behavioral economics can re-shape our workplaces. We examine research from HBS Professors John Beshears and Katherine B. Coffman and ...

Salary negotiations can feel like a tricky game where the right strategy can make all the difference. But what if there was a way to use science to boost your chances? Behavioral economics combines ...