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Nudging and Boosting Financial Decisions

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  • Ralph Hertwig

    (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin)

  • Till Grüne-Yanoff

    (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm)

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Increasingly, policymakers are using insights from psychology and behavioral economics into how people make decisions to inform nonregulatory and nonmonetary policy interventions. To date, much of the focus has been on nudges: interventions designed to steer people in a particular direction while preserving their freedom of choice. Yet behavioral science also provides support for a distinct kind of nonfiscal, noncoercive intervention: boosts. The objective of boosts is to foster people’s competence to make their own choices. We explore how boosts differ from nudges, address possible misconceptions, provide a taxonomy of boosts, and outline possible boosts for financial literacy

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  • Ralph Hertwig & Till Grüne-Yanoff, 2019. "Nudging and Boosting Financial Decisions," BANCARIA, Bancaria Editrice, vol. 3, pages 2-19, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:ban:bancar:v:3:y:2019:m:march:p:2-19
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    JEL classification:

    • G40 - Financial Economics - - Behavioral Finance - - - General
    • G11 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions

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