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- 15th Dec 2016
Behavioural finance in the Lab
Some of the earliest and most impressive applications of behavioural science focused on helping people to save for their retirement. In particular, there is the pioneering work of Brigitte Madrian, David Laibson, John Beshears and James Choi demonstrating the impact of automatically enrolling employees into workplace pension plans, and Richard…
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- 5th Sep 2014
Empowering consumers in order to reduce mobile phone theft
On 3rd September the Home Secretary announced that we will be publishing a joint BIT/Home Office analysis intended to better inform consumers about mobile phone theft and security. The analysis uses Metropolitan Police Service data to show how offenders disproportionately target certain phones; how these patterns are sensitive to security…
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- 25th Sep 2013
Pensions policy shows the power of defaults
The past year has seen one of the biggest changes to pension schemes in recent times. Starting with the largest employers, workers are now being automatically enrolled in a scheme when they join a company. In other words, now people have to make a decision to leave their employer’s scheme,…
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- 4th Dec 2012
Christmas shopping tips from a behavioural economist
Tips from Cass Sunstein, click here to read the article.