Behavioral economics attempts to integrate insights from psychology, neuroscience, and sociology in order to better predict individual outcomes and develop more effective policy. While the field has been successfully applied to many areas, education has, so far, received less attention – a...

Economics is increasingly using process data to make novel inferences about preferences and predictions of choices. The measurement of response time (RT), the amount of time it takes to make a decision, offers a cost-effective and direct way to study the choice process. Yet, relatively little...

This paper reviews the debate in economics over neuroeconomics' contribution to economics. It distinguishes majority and minority views, argues that this debate has been framed by mainstream economics' conception of itself as an isolated science, and argues that this framing has put off the...

Chetty, Looney and Kroft (2009) find that consumers perceive tax-salience as a price increase, i.e. sales decrease when posting tax-inclusive prices. Using data from their unique experiment, I test whether individuals display inattention to the decimal digits of the price (i.e. left-digit bias)....

Neural networks are tackled through probabilities for neurons to be activated by other neurons. They are represented by doubly stochastic matrices, named brain matrices, the polytope of which is the convex hull of the permutation matrices which are vertices of this Birkhoff polytope. Each...

Neuroeconomics makes use of new data and tools from neuroscience to enrich the study of economic decision-making. This chapter introduces neuroeconomic methods and surveys a number of contributions to the literature regarding brain responses to brands, advertisements, pricing and product...

The ideas and beliefs for interpreting and interacting with the world constitute your worldview. It holds enormous leverage for either restraining or expediting knowledge building. This chapter, from my book Value Creation Thinking, describes how the explicit incorporation of four core...

In this paper, we show that behavioral features can be obtained at a group level when the individuals of the group are heterogeneous enough. More precisely, starting from a standard model of Pareto optimal allocations, with expected utility maximizers and exponential discounting, but allowing...

Hesitation in the marketplace has the potential to betray private information. Recent results from lab experiments have confirmed that subjects’ response times reveal their strength-of-preference or belief, even in strategic settings. What remains unclear is whether these results extend beyond...

The paper analyzes the inherent risks of paternalistic economic policies associated with the newly established economic sub-disciplines of behavioral economics, happiness economics and economic psychology. While the authors in general welcome these sub-disciplines for enriching and critically...