To inform possible future policy in the UK savings market, we test new consumer disclosure. Easy access savings accounts are the most popular and simplest way to save in the UK, with the main product feature being the interest rate. While significant rate differences exist on similar accounts...

While popular with policymakers, most evidence on consumer financial disclosure's effectiveness studies borrowing decisions (where optimality is unclear) or lab experiments (where attention is not scarce). We provide field evidence from randomized-controlled trials with 124,000 savings-account...

Disclosure--the practice of providing information to support decision making--has been widely mandated in public policy but is routinely ignored by consumers and subject to obfuscation by firms. Yet most evidence on the effectiveness of consumer financial disclosure stems from lab experiments...