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Rethinking nudge : not one but three concepts
Mongin, Philippe; Cozic, Mikaël - 2017
Nudge is a concept of policy intervention that originates in Thaler and Sunstein's (2008) popular eponymous book …. Following their own hints, we distinguish three properties of nudge interventions: they redirect individual choices by only … slightly altering choice conditions (here nudge 1), they use rationality failures instrumentally (here nudge 2), and they …
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Rethinking nudges
Mongin, Philippe; Cozic, Mikaël - 2014
Nudge is a semantically multifarious concept that originates in Thaler and Sunstein's (2008) popular eponymous book. In … centres on the interrelations, both semantic and factual, of these three nudge concepts. It argues that the first and second … the shortcut of arguing that Thaler and Sunstein lose their best defence of libertarian paternalism after the nudge …
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Product Warnings, Debiasing, and Free Speech: The Case of Tobacco Regulation
Jolls, Christine - In: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE) 169 (2013) 1, pp. 53-78
The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009 requires the display of graphic health warnings on cigarette advertising and packaging in the United States. Debates over the permissibility of these new mandated health warnings under the unusually broad Free Speech Clause of the...
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An experiment for regulatory policy on broadband speed advertising
Timmons, Shane; McElvaney, Terence J.; Lunn, Pete - 2019
Identifying whether hyperbolic advertising claims influence consumers is important for consumer protection, but differentiating mere "puffery" from misleading advertising is not straightforward. We conducted a pre-registered experiment to determine whether pseudo-technical advertising claims...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389613
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An experiment for regulatory policy on broadband speed advertising
Timmons, Shane; McElvaney, Terence J.; Lunn, Pete - 2019
Identifying whether hyperbolic advertising claims influence consumers is important for consumer protection, but differentiating mere "puffery" from misleading advertising is not straightforward. We conducted a pre-registered experiment to determine whether pseudo-technical advertising claims...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012123243
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Are consumer decision-making phenomena a fourth market failure?
Lunn, Pete - 2013
This paper challenges the increasingly common view that the findings of behavioural economics constitute a fourth type of market failure. The market failure framework elevates the standard competitive market model to the status of an ideal. It provides us with tools to identify departures from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010392518
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Are consumer decision-making phenomena a fourth market failure?
Lunn, Pete - 2013
This paper challenges the increasingly common view that the findings of behavioural economics constitute a fourth type of market failure. The market failure framework elevates the standard competitive market model to the status of an ideal. It provides us with tools to identify departures from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009737609
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Personalizing EU Private Law. From Disclosures to Nudges and Mandates
Hacker, Philipp - 2017
A key problem in EU private law is actor heterogeneity. While special rules exist for certain subgroups of actors, for example consumers or retail investors, the members of these legal categories still exhibit vast differences in behaviour, degrees of rationality, vulnerability, and economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963351
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"Better off as judged by themselves" : a critical analysis of the conceptual foundations of nudging
Cartwright, Alexander C.; Hight, Marc A. - In: Cambridge journal of economics 44 (2020) 1, pp. 33-54
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Widerspruchslösung – ein Weg zu höheren Organspenderaten?
Eberling, Elisabeth - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 87 (2018) 2, pp. 153-168
„Organe werden gespendet“ (Widerspruchslösung) diskutiert. Nachgegangen wird der Frage, ob dieser Nudge zu signifikant höheren … mögliche Probleme und Verzerrungen der Raten. Darüber hinaus wird diskutiert, inwiefern ein Nudge im Bereich der Organspende … waiting for an organ donation. This article discusses the effectiveness of a nudge to the default setting “organs are donated …
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