This is a repeat of an episode published on The Economics Show, a sister podcast of Behind the Money, on November 7, 2025. Subscribe to The Economics Show on Apple, Spotify, Pocket Casts or wherever ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

The anomalies studied by behavioral economists suggest that logic is rarely the most important factor in decisions.

Gender and sex assigned at birth are not as decisive in economic decision-making as previously thought, a new study finds. A new study published in Scientific Reports is the first analysis of ...

Discover how behavioral modeling helps predict consumer actions using spending data, enabling businesses to refine targeting and enhance risk assessment.

This is part of our “Econ Extra Credit” project, where we read an introductory economics textbook provided by the nonprofit Core Econ together with our listeners. Robots are doing their part during ...

Behavioural economics is a revolutionary field. Its champions may not have beheaded any royalty, but they have done the academic equivalent by overthrowing a paradigm that ruled our thinking and ...

An insight into the economic aspects of consumer behavior allows small businesses to leverage limited marketing resources by improving predictions of how consumers will react to marketing strategies.

A new study is the first analysis of transgender and cisgender economic behavior, and the first to consider whether sex assigned at birth plays a significant part in economic decisions. Gender and sex ...