This paper uses proprietary data comprising of 4,155 participants who attended financial education seminars conducted by a major U.S. consumer credit counseling agency in 2007. In this study, knowledge gained from attending the seminars is estimated using a multivariate regression model. Results...

Introduction -- Foundations: psychology -- Foundations: neuroscience and neuroeconomics -- Learning -- Socially and identity -- Heuristics and biases -- Prospects and regrets -- Personality, moods and emotions -- Time and plans -- Bad habits -- Financial instability -- Behavioural...

To keep up with the rather fast-growing interest in the discipline of Behavioral Finance and Economics caused in part by the new realities of the post-200S world, and the realities prevailing over three decades before and leading up to that year- there is a discernible need for the production of...