Richard Thaler

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

And the Nobel Prize in Economics goes to polar opposites

Believe in efficient markets? Or favour behavioural finance? You win either way