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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Behavioural Economics"”.
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Essays in Behavioural Economics & Applied Econometrics
A long body of literature in behavioural economics has demonstrated that individuals perform poorly in understanding how past outcomes relate to future outcomes in experimental settings. This thesis studies the ability of individual decision makers to incorporate information about previous …
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Behavioural Economics: The Inferior-Good Effect
These experiments used 15 domestic hens to investigate the inferior-good effect, a decrease in consumption of a commodity as income increases. Experiment 1 investigated plain and salted wheat to serve as superior goods (opposite to inferior goods) and inferior goods. Hens consumed mostly plain …
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Developing consumption feedback principles for monthly utility bills informed by behavioural economics: evidence from controlled experiments
… simpler and better feedback informed by applied behavioural sciences. Two sets of controlled experiments were conducted with over 1,500 subjects to identify bill design strategies that could overcome two major barriers to effective consumption feedback: • the complexity of the utility bill, …
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Behavioural economics: The missing ingredient that makes sexual health services responsive and acceptable to young South Africans
… suboptimal levels of health-seeking behaviour. Behavioural economics provides insight into why conventional efforts to generate health-seeking behaviour have struggled to curb HIV infection in South African AYA and in designing more desirable, scalable interventions to better serve youth and …
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The Effects of Compensation Models on Physicians’ Productivity, Quality, and Efficiency in Line with Saudi Vision 2030: Insights From Behavioural Economics
… would influence behaviour and performance. Behavioural economics theories provide such insight; therefore, policymakers must use those theories to design effective incentive systems that motivate physicians, influence their behaviour, and prevent negative consequences.<br/>In this context, …
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Nudging' health behavioural change: behavioral economics, Tobacco control and innovative finance for Cancer control
… health and social problems, applications of behavioural economics in tobacco control amongst tobacco-control stakeholders, and to identify innovative ways of funding for treatment of tobacco-related cancers. This exploratory, cross-sectional, qualitative study was conducted between January …
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Nudging Retail Investors towards Sustainable and Responsible Mutual Funds: A Study of Financial Advisors and Retail Investors in Hong Kong
… holding SRI investment instruments. Advance in behavioural economics provided a possible explanation that their intention may not be reflected in their actions because of cognitive biases. Nudge theory of behavioural economics further suggested that we can steer people to better decision-making …
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Retribution, Reciprocity, and Crime
… from neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and behavioural economics to shed light on one of the most unlikely explanatory mechanisms of crime: cooperation. Humans are unique cooperators: we exchange resources and help one another in a time of need. The tendencies central to understanding the …
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Promoting positive changes in physical activity through behavior economics
… to encourage behaviour change is that of behavioural economics (BE). <br/><br/>This thesis explores how key principles from behavioural economics’ could help public health practitioners design effective interventions both in relation to incentive designs and more widely. However, …
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Behavioural preferences and labour market attachment among South African youth
… multifaceted challenge. This study explores how behavioural preferences—specifically risk aversion and probability weighting—vary across employment categories among South African youth. Using structural estimates from incentivised Multiple Price List (MPL) tasks, we estimate parameters for …
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An Investigation into the Psychology of Socially Responsible Investment Decisions
… corporations. This dissertation analyses whether behavioural economic theory and theory relating to psychological biases can potentially be utilised in the promotion of SRI to increase the quantity of capital being invested through SRI strategies. The analysis finds that the way SRI decisions are …
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The moderating effect of time-perspective on the intention-behaviour relationship
… has been shown in the fields of psychology and behavioural economics to exert a profound influence on behaviour, particularly in so far as individuals failing to follow through on stated intentions. This study investigates whether time-perspective exerts a similar effect on consumer behaviour, …
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Testing the Dual Evolutionary Foundations of Political Ideology Using Incentivised Behavioural Tasks
… this theory by leveraging empirical tools from behavioural economics. Across several studies using abstract incentivised behavioural tasks, I show that cooperative and group conformist preferences reliably predict economically and socially conservative views. By supporting the dual evolutionary …
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IL CONSUMATORE NELL’ECONOMIA DEL DEBITO. Sovraindebitamento, responsabilità e mercato del credito nell’ecosistema digitale
… and data-driven markets. By engaging with behavioural economics and European Union law on data protection and artificial intelligence, the thesis highlights the risks of opacity, discrimination, and automated decision-making in credit allocation processes, while questioning the …
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Complementary Currencies: A Systems Theory Approach to Monetary Macroeconomics
… from early Mercantilist economists and Classical Behavioural Economics into System Dynamics post-Keynesian Stock-Flow Consistent models. A lexicographic consumption model is developed to enable a core monetary model. This model is augmented with secondary monetary circuits, using three types of …
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Verhaltenspsychologisch begründete Wahrnehmungsfehler bei der Identifikation betrieblicher Risiken. Evidenzbasierte Entwicklung eines Risk Intake-Modells basierend auf theoretischen Grundlagen und empirischer Evaluierung
… This research project draws on models from behavioural economics, decision theory, process management, and psychology to arrive at a detailed breakdown of the risk identification process. It also identifies possible biases that might play a role. Results from a systematic literature review …
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Human Behaviour and the Environment: Experiments in Behavioural Environmental Economics
… idea of ‘homo economicus’, neglecting important behavioural aspects of the relationship between human behaviour and the environment. This thesis examines some of the complex interrelations between human behaviour and the environment through a behavioural environmental economics lens, drawing on …
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Four Essays on Strategic Behavior, Empathy and Gender Differences in Voluntary Provision of Public Goods and Responsible Consumption
… turned to the rapidly growing field of behaviour economics which represents a merger of a variety of different scientific disciplines (economics and psychology above all) and, as such, gives us a unique opportunity to study a variety of aspects (both economic and not) characterizing the behavior …
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An analysis of judgemental bias in housing choice
… insights of the economic theory of choice - from behavioural economics in particular - to examine housing choice from a new perspective. It considers the potential for estate agents, knowingly or otherwise, to exploit behavioural biases in decision making to influence preference and, ultimately, …
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Exploring Strategies to Prevent Harm from Web Search
… oriented solutions, but give limited focus on behavioural and cognitive biases and behaviours of the search and even less attention to interventions designed to address these biases and behaviours. As such, a theoretical framework is proposed, with behavioural and cognitive strategies as a core …
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