Financial decisions are among the most important life-shaping decisions that people make. We review facts about financial decisions and what cognitive and neural processes influence them. Because of cognitive constraints and a low average level of financial literacy, many household decisions...

Dual systems theories play an important role in the conceptual foundations of behavioural economics, such as distinguishing between ‘fast' and ‘slow' responses to stimuli. After considering how behavioural economists use these dualities to legitimize policy interventions, I critically...

We experimentally manipulate two aspects of the cognitive environment, cognitive depletion and recent sugar intake, and estimate their effects on individuals' time preferences in a way that allows us to identify the structural parameters of a simple (α,β,δ) intertemporal utility function for...