In order to discuss the future direction of policy making for protecting children online, this paper discusses the effectiveness of protection policies based on libertarian paternalism from the standpoint of behavioral economics by referring to the efforts of the Kariya authorities, Aichi...

In this thesis I present three essays in which the influence of heuristics on individual decision making is analyzed and two essays dealing with behavioral aspects of moral costs. In chapter two, we investigate the effect a traders’ decision can have on the disposition effect heuristic when...

The ends and means of public policy / Mark Fabian -- Behavioural theories and public policy / Uwe Dulleck -- Institutions matter : an introduction to the role of institutions in public policy / Julia Talbot-Jones -- Regulatory theories and frameworks / Elizabeth Bluff -- Why do we need...