University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa students can play the role of a corporate firm, stock market trader or consumer for a day while contributing to economics research, and receive monetary compensation at ...

Despite an abundance of strong economic theory compiled over the decades, it’s still notoriously difficult to predict what economic systems will do. That’s because the economy is driven by an ...

Behavioral economics combines information about human behavior and outcomes with more standard methods of economic analysis. Behavioral economics has been applied in various contexts such as ...

Behavioral economics studies how psychological tendencies influence economic decisions and outcomes. Concepts such as loss aversion and bounded rationality explain why people evaluate outcomes ...

Climate change is among the largest threats to humanity. The current gradual government action is insufficient in effectively reducing greenhouse gases (GHG) pollution. In fact, at the current ...

Have you ever heard of the Milgram experiment? This behavioral experiment tested whether one participant would deliver electric shocks to another participant at a fatal level even as they listened to ...