Publications

• Report
• 11th Sep 2024

Net Zero Communications, Marketing and Public Engagement

• Report
• 11th Sep 2024

Artificial Intelligence and Retail Investing: Use Cases and Experimental Research

AI applications are beginning to dramatically influence the experiences of retail investors around the world - from providing advice and automated portfolio management to ‘turbo-charging’ fraud and scams. Securities regulators are striving to understand, prioritize and address potential investor harms while fostering innovation.

• Report
• 9th Sep 2024

A Blueprint for Better International Collaboration on Evidence

Governments collectively spend trillions on public services. Despite this, surprisingly little is known on what works across most areas of public spending. Alongside this, R&D spending by governments across most areas of spending, with the exception of health and defence, are incredibly low. For the U.S., UK, Australia and Canada,…

• Working paper
• 22nd Aug 2024

Working Paper No. 007: The UK public is overconfident

A nationally representative survey of 2000 adults found that 81% of people are overconfident in their answers to a series of general knowledge questions - that is to say, they answer incorrectly but believe their response to be right - but there are notable differences between generations.

• Report
• 12th Aug 2024

Using behavioural insights to increase post-secondary and career services participation

In a rapidly changing labour market, how can people be empowered to make better decisions about skills and work?

• Working paper
• 6th Aug 2024

Working Paper No. 006: Understanding gambling spending in Great Britain using payment card data

Historically the gambling market in Britain has been dominated by cash. However, in more recent times debit card payments have become the predominant form of payment in Britain, including in the gambling market.

• Report
• 26th Jul 2024

What do people think are the chances of winning money from a wagering requirement? Supplementary results to the main report

In this report, BIT’s Gambling Policy and Research Unit presents additional evidence wagering requirements (WR)—common restrictions on gambling offers stipulating how many times a player must stake their received bonus funds before they can withdraw anything as their own money—are poorly understood by consumers.

• Report
• 17th Jul 2024

Review of Online Choice Architecture and Vulnerability

Commissioned by Citizens Advice, this report explores how online choices architecture disproportionately harm vulnerable consumers, recommending this architecture and vulnerability should be addressed together to protect consumers.

• Report
• 23rd May 2024

Gambling support via financial services firms explore phase

In this report, BIT’s Gambling Policy & Research Unit presents its work, which explored how financial services firms can help to provide support to their customers who gamble. 

• Report
• 19th Apr 2024

L’effet du design des bannières de cookies sur le choix des internautes

En 2018, l’Union européenne a instauré le Règlement Général sur la Protection des Données (RGPD), donnant lieu à l’apparition de bannières « cookies ». Malheureusement, le design de ces bannières s’avère souvent problématique, empêchant régulièrement les internautes de faire un choix aligné à leurs préférences de partage de données.