Born in Bender, Moldova, professor Alex Imas is an award-winning behavioral economist who joined Booth’s faculty in 2020. His research spans a wide range of topics across the fields of economics and ...

A recent story on National Public Radio ( link) gives an overview of a subfield of economics called behavioral economics. Behavioral economics incorporates elements of psychology into economic theory.

Congratulations to our graduate students whose outstanding academic performance and passion for economics has earned them this year's Department of Economics graduate student awards. I joined Simon ...

Toronto - A leading scholar in behavioural economics and a professor of marketing at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management has been named as the Canada Research Chair in Behavioural ...

Michelle Baddeley is Director and Research Professor at the Institute for Choice, University of South Australia. Today, it seems as though everyone is talking about behavioral economics. Governments ...

Bob Simison profiles MIT behavioral economist Sendhil Mullainathan, who is leading his discipline into the age of algorithms AI is just too important to leave to computer scientists. So says MIT ...

Behavioral economics uses an understanding of human psychology to account for why people deviate from rational action when they’re making decisions. In the model of rational action assumed by ...

Behavioral Economics is the application of psychology to the field of economics. It describes the role that psychology plays among consumers, employers, and governments, which then impacts markets and ...

Behavioral economics uses an understanding of human psychology to account for why people deviate from rational action when they’re making decisions. In the model of rational action assumed by ...