Tim Harford: The high price of our increasingly subscription-based lifestyle
Businesses have learned there is good money to be made by cashing in on our carelessness
Richard Thaler
Over-trading: good for Robinhood, bad for clients
There’s nothing noble about the free trading app’s business model
Stocktake: High stakes don’t make people smarter
An experimental study involving economics students kills that old chestnut
Stocktake: Beware the house money effect
Tendency to take more risks on unexpected winnings is natural but dangerous
Dividends are drying up – but do we really need them?
Investors are feeling the pinch as companies hold off on paying out dividends during crisis
Emotional time travel: Will you handle the next bear market?
We should be more understanding of bad decisions made in hot emotional states
Leadership needs to neutralise innovation blockers – and here’s how
Scott Anthony’s research shows that the most innovative companies display five key behaviours
Stocktake: Don’t login to your portfolio too often
Why things are looking up for global stock markets; and SoftBank backs WeWork
Investors undone by elementary mistakes in doing the maths
Basic errors, encouraged by sensational media headlines, continue to distort market prices
Timing continues to elude investors in search of returns
It’s hard to disagree with old cliché that time in the market is more important than timing the market
Trust your fund manager to buy stocks but not to sell
Random sales strategy is better than a bad sales strategy, research shows
Forget logic. Investment is driven mostly by emotion
A behavioural finance expert says investors are not as dispassionate as you’d think
Nobel laureate shows failure on carbon tax policy likely to be costly
Climate change specialist William Nordhaus says carbon price needed to achieve targets will rise as policies have been delayed
Is bad weather bad for stock markets?
Weather and mood influence investors’ decision-making, new research indicates
1,000 economists warn Trump his trade views echo 1930s errors
President’s ‘economic protectionism’ harkens back to errors that fueled Great Depression, say experts
See-saw action shows stocks still on shaky ground
Stocktake: Why you should delete your investing app from your smartphone
Yes, there really is a Santa Claus rally
Seasonal boost to stocks found even where Christmas is not a leading holiday
Why do markets keep rising? Even Nobel winner Thaler can’t explain it
Stocktake: Absence of stock market volatility at a time of global uncertainty a mystery
Stocktake: Rising prices boosting stock market sentiment
Bitcoin surpassed $6,000 last week so it’s a good time to ask, is it overpriced?
Predictably irrational: investor lessons from Nobel winner Richard Thaler
We can all learn from the man who so closely observes the quirks that govern our financial decision-making
Nobel Prize in Economics ideas help shape Ireland’s policy
Richard Thaler’s behavioural economics reveal people decide with emotion not logic
Trump’s market ignorance nears record highs
US president claims stock market gains cut national debt – but they have no bearing on it
Budget 2018: Reading between the lines of Donohoe’s speech
Minister’s plans on ‘more appropriate accommodation’, sugar and Brexit decoded
‘Nudge’ theorist Richard Thaler wins Nobel economics prize
US economist wins for work in behavioural economics – how human traits affect markets
Investors beware - we are hard-wired to be wary of red
People became 25% more risk-averse when the colour red is used
The endowment effect: Falling in love with stocks and coffee cups
Do investors get too attached to the stocks they own and overvalue their worth?
AIB is not the first instance of ‘eejit trade’
Recent trading in AIB just the latest example of how clueless traders can inflate stocks
When nudging staff pushes them to do more
Is using behavioural science to get staff to do more encouragement or manipulation?
Put pleasure back into your diet
Two cookery books gently nudge you towards making smarter food choices that are good for your health
Should investors ignore the bubble-watchers?
A Harvard study reveals clues to help investors avoid stock-market crashes
A friendship of opposites that changed our view of human thinking
Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky paved the way for behavioural finance
To err is human: mistakes and why we make them
For ‘The Undoing Project’ Michael Lewis, author of ‘The Big Short’ and ‘Moneyball’, has focused on the Nobel-winning work of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky
Retirement planning: are you prone to short-termism?
Novel ways of engaging pension-fund investors are being devised, ranging from a short quiz to face-ageing apps
Why do investors choose cash over stocks?
Retail investors have kept cash allocations high even though shares tend to trounce cash long term
Even ‘God’ couldn’t bypass bear markets
Everyone – even a clairvoyant God who continually picks the top-performing stocks – suffers during bear markets
Your Money: Beware the ‘illusion of knowledge’
Research shows informed people may think they may know more than they do
How supermarkets use your behaviour against you
Behavioural economics is helping governments and businesses to read our thoughts and change our behaviour for their benefit
Taking stock of the human side of the investment game
Richard Thaler’s book ‘Misbehaving’ is a must-read for investors and non-investors
Avoiding the decisions that often lead to financial self-sabotage
Financier believes investors must focus only on specified criteria
Does nature trump nurture when it comes to investing?
Biology is not destiny, but research indicates our genes play a large part in our investment approach.
Heads it’s pure skill, tails it’s luck – can the markets really be predicted?
Investors are increasingly realising that cheap index funds trump actively managed funds
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