Demand for annuities has been soaring as the result of a combination of factors ranging from market dynamics to demographic trends and product innovation. In fact, Limra projects sales will increase ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. Behavioral economics has had a growing influence on public policy over the past ...

Having worked closely with business leaders and investors, I’ve seen how retirement planning is often shaped more by perception than reality. Despite longer life expectancies and rising healthcare ...

As the column’s name suggests, Thaler set out to challenge standard economic thinking by testing economic anomalies—in other words, what happens when our irrational, some might say human, selves are ...

Salary negotiations can feel like a tricky game where the right strategy can make all the difference. But what if there was a way to use science to boost your chances? Behavioral economics combines ...

The latest readings on consumer sentiment are sounding alarms across the financial world. While hard data on the economy can be negative, only when consumer optimism drops do we see a decrease in ...

Behavioral economics helps investors understand irrational market behaviors and customer choices. Examples of behavioral economic theories include loss aversion and sunk-cost fallacy. Recognizing ...

For the last few decades, behavioral economics has endeavored to identify the biases that impact our choices, as well as the “nudges” to help improve our decision-making and behavior. As those ...

Behavioral economics combines information about human behavior and outcomes with more standard methods of economic analysis. Behavioral economics has been applied in various contexts such as ...