This thesis consists of three chapters exploring how individuals make decisions (mostly in relation to time), how decisions are influenced by subtle behavioral interventions called nudges, and under which circumstances the effectiveness of the nudges can change. The first chapter shows, in several online experiments and one field experiment in the context of a real market, that the endowment effect (or difference between buying and selling prices) systematically increases as transactions are delayed into the future. In the second chapter, present bias is studied in the gain and the loss domains in a two-stage incentivized experiment, which reveals that both domains show the bias but it is stronger in the loss domain. The third chapter studi...
Every day, individuals are faced with thousands of decisions, which can have a small or a large impa...
This thesis is made up of three Chapters. In the first chapter, “Happy, healthy, wealthy and rationa...
In 2008, the behavioral economist Richard Thaler and the legal scholar Cass Sunstein published a boo...
This thesis consists of three chapters exploring how individuals make decisions (mostly in relation ...
Individuals increasingly make important decisions utilizing information systems. Behavioral economic...
Nudges are changes to the environment in which people are presented with choice options to steer a p...
This dissertation presents three essays that use experimental or empirical methods to investigate th...
In this paper we develop a theoretical model to clarify the underlying mechanisms that drive individ...
Nudge is a recent research phenomena that explores the idea of implementing low-cost and easy opt-ou...
This dissertation aimed to examine when and for whom nudges can be an effective and acceptable means...
Nudges have gained popularity as a behavioral change tool that aims to facilitate the selection of t...
The objective of this thesis is to improve the understanding of human behavior that goes beyond mone...
This thesis comprises three chapters on topics in behavioral and experimental economics. In the fir...
Recent work in behavioral economics has led to startling conclusions about the limits of human ratio...
Of the many challenges we face as individuals and as a society, several of the most important and ha...
Every day, individuals are faced with thousands of decisions, which can have a small or a large impa...
This thesis is made up of three Chapters. In the first chapter, “Happy, healthy, wealthy and rationa...
In 2008, the behavioral economist Richard Thaler and the legal scholar Cass Sunstein published a boo...
This thesis consists of three chapters exploring how individuals make decisions (mostly in relation ...
Individuals increasingly make important decisions utilizing information systems. Behavioral economic...
Nudges are changes to the environment in which people are presented with choice options to steer a p...
This dissertation presents three essays that use experimental or empirical methods to investigate th...
In this paper we develop a theoretical model to clarify the underlying mechanisms that drive individ...
Nudge is a recent research phenomena that explores the idea of implementing low-cost and easy opt-ou...
This dissertation aimed to examine when and for whom nudges can be an effective and acceptable means...
Nudges have gained popularity as a behavioral change tool that aims to facilitate the selection of t...
The objective of this thesis is to improve the understanding of human behavior that goes beyond mone...
This thesis comprises three chapters on topics in behavioral and experimental economics. In the fir...
Recent work in behavioral economics has led to startling conclusions about the limits of human ratio...
Of the many challenges we face as individuals and as a society, several of the most important and ha...
Every day, individuals are faced with thousands of decisions, which can have a small or a large impa...
This thesis is made up of three Chapters. In the first chapter, “Happy, healthy, wealthy and rationa...
In 2008, the behavioral economist Richard Thaler and the legal scholar Cass Sunstein published a boo...