As physical spaces are able to influence behaviors, also technologies shape how we evolve and interact in our context and ultimately can affect the performances of social organizations…
Giovanna D'Adda
If green behaviors are not properly rewarded by society or institutions, they may therefore implicitly be discouraged….
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By selling efficient and long lasting L.E.D lights, companies are in fact setting a short term to their own industrial activities…
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I magine that a sailor sees clouds forming on the horizon, and estimates that it won’t be a major storm. She thus decides to stay on course. The next morning, she’s lashed by an hurricane.
Read more →Research shows that adding a label with information on fair labor standards increased sales of expensive items while a similar label had no effect on cheaper items or items purchased in outlet stores. Why?
These applicants have exciting projects and we look forward to seeing what comes of them.
Michael Greenstone, Faculty Director at The E2e Project - on assigning prestigious grant to seed our research
Individuals often fail to take an action that is in their long-run best interest, may it be undertaking vaccinations, saving for retirement plans, or just going to the gym. Most models of individual decision-making list as reasons for this failure …
One of the most known strategies to nudge consumers into greener (energy) behavior is to provide them with information about their peers consumption patterns in similar conditions. Recently, however, two differerent studies question the effectiveness of this information on others’ energy use consumption. …
Massimo and Giacomo just presented some of the first results of our research at a workshop in Varese on last Sep. 24th, organised by the Joint Research Center of the European Commission and dedicated to good practices on information campaigns targeting behaviour change with a …
Uri Gneezy at a recent conference summarised his research on incentives in the following golden rules:
The desire to conform to what other people do leads to more energy conservation if one consumes more than the average, or to less conservation if one consumes less than the average… is what the social norms literature in economics says.
Here is the first paper from COBHAM research team! The paper was presented at the Third Annual Workshop on Crowdsourcing and Online Behavioral Experiments (COBE 2015).
Read more →Could this be a solution just for developing countries? And what are the behavioral consequences of the increased control over expenditures given by pay-as-you-go electricity when credit constraints are not binding? An interesting working paper to find out
A very interesting and policy relevant issue is topical now in behavioral policy, as psychologists take on spillovers. What do economists have to say in this regard?
In The Power of Habit, award-winning New York Times business reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed…
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