behavioral economics, complexity, agent-based models, computational and experimental economics
As part of our second installment in our Behavioral Econs 101 series(see part 1 here), we turn now to tie up some loose ends with mental accounting by discussing how behavioral economics helps us understand when we think of a deal as a bargain or …
Richard Thaler, the 2017 Nobel Laureate for Economics, has spent a career trying to understand individuals as they really are, idiosyncrasies, irrationalities and all and in the process founded the field of behavioral economics. In this series of short essays, we will introduce the basic …