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Showing 11 to 20 of 54 search results for occasional papers on behavioural economics exploring.

  1. Occasional Paper No. 8: Consumer Vulnerability

    Occasional papers Published: 23/02/2015 Last modified: 27/04/2020
    Stimulating debate and interest around the subject of consumer vulnerability so that firms better understand the issue and act appropriately.

  2. Occasional Paper No. 26: From advert to action: behavioural insights into the advertising of financial products

    Occasional papers Published: 12/04/2017 Last modified: 21/07/2017
    How are we affected by financial advertising? What do we pay attention to and when might we be misled? In this paper we explore the science of advertising to answer these questions.

  3. Occasional Paper No. 38: Testing retirement communications: Waking up to get wise

    Occasional papers Published: 28/06/2018 Last modified: 28/06/2018
    As part of the Retirement Income Market Study and the Retirement Outcomes Review, the FCA looked into ways in which we could encourage those approaching retirement to engage with the free government guidance available to them and with their pension

  4. Speech: New thinking in regulatory economics

    Insight Published: 23/03/2017 Last modified: 23/03/2017
    Changing the minds of a high proportion of consumers through interventions based on today’s ‘behavioural economics’ is typically rather hard. ... A thorough explanation of the application of behavioural thinking to financial regulation is in

  5. Occasional Paper No. 9: Two plus two makes five? Survey evidence that investors overvalue structured deposits

    Occasional papers Published: 05/03/2015 Last modified: 05/03/2015
    Occasional Paper No. 9: Two plus two makes five? Survey evidence that investors overvalue structured deposits. ... Behavioural economics can help understand the mistakes consumers make, how firms respond to these mistakes and how this affects competition.

  6. Occasional Paper No. 7: Stimulating Interest: Reminding savers to act when rates decrease

    Occasional papers Published: 20/01/2015 Last modified: 20/01/2015
    Reminders make a notable difference to switching behaviour in savings accounts around the time of interest rate decreases.

  7. Occasional Paper No. 23: Full disclosure: a round-up of FCA experimental research into giving information

    Occasional papers Published: 23/11/2016 Last modified: 23/11/2016
    This paper describes the results of eight experiments into giving information carried out by the FCA.

  8. Occasional Paper No. 28: Preventing financial distress by predicting unaffordable consumer credit agreements: An applied framework

    Occasional papers Published: 31/07/2017 Last modified: 31/07/2017
    In this paper, we provide theoretical and practical evidence to help develop more effective affordability rules.

  9. Regulation as a spur to growth

    Speeches Published: 05/06/2013 Last modified: 01/07/2013
    Speech by Martin Wheatley, Chief Executive, the FCA, to the Investment Management Association (IMA) at Mansion House, London. This is the text of the speech as drafted, which may differ from the delivered version.

  10. Occasional Paper No. 39: Estimating the benefits of interventions that affect consumer behaviour

    Occasional papers Published: 24/07/2018 Last modified: 27/07/2018
    The aim of this Occasional Paper is to help us estimate the benefits of our interventions, while recognising the challenges.