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  • Interview with Grant Donnelly

    the field a little later than most, after working in the grocery industry for 10 years, and it was hard In addition to this, I care a lot about field experiments and observing actual decisions and I take a national bank that allowed their customers to make payments toward individual purchases on their credit card bill.

  • More Behavioural Financial Non-Advice

    Since the late 1970s research has shown that when using an easier payment method (i.e. a credit card move back to cash spending, which has a clear limit, or you set yourself very strict budgets on your card spending has proven to be problematically simple as well, with most online stores remembering your card Make it harder for yourself to spend: don’t save your card details anywhere. Allow yourself the friction of needing to get up and find your card (details) somewhere.

  • Having a No-Buy Month. Is It Worth It?

    The main reasons for wanting to get back on track was either (credit card) debt or getting ready for

  • Absolutely Terrible Money Advice

    Well, there are reasons for not taking out a loan or a credit card debt every single time you see something Think of interest payments, or if it gets really bad: defaulting and ruining your credit score. When impulse meets credit card debt, it’s time to learn some restraint. If you still want it days/weeks/months later whilst having to give up actual hard-earned savings for

  • Why I Don’t Believe In, But Do Support The FIRE Movement.

    Conspicuous consumption continues to rise, just like credit card debt (the latter mainly in the States And not being able to take care of yourself financially, either now or later, is worst.

  • Six Steps to Make You Spend LESS!

    and Simester (2001) that is called: "Always leave home without it: A further investigation of the credit-card This entire paper focusses on the fact that the mere presence of a credit card is likely to cause you Leave the cards at home. Now some people are a bit uneasy with the idea of not having their card (or mobile/digital wallet) with Leave the cards at home, and stick with cash.

  • Building a Budgeting Tool That Works

    Additionally, I have to mention Cleo also has credit card options and “cash spotting” but I haven’t researched

  • Interview with Louise Ward

    And in today's interview the answers are provided by Louise Ward.

  • Why is the U.S. lagging on Contactless?

    , the only thing that really needs to change is the card reader. But then the question beckons: what must come first: the card or the terminal? Lots of credit card numbers got stolen and counterfeited. In this case the card-reading machines. Now cards are of course not the only contactless method of payment.

  • Proudest Achievements of Famous Behavioural Scientists

    of his proudest achievements : ”The single paper I’m most proud of is the field experiment we ran on credit card direct debit defaults, together with Stefan Hunt, Benedict Guttman Kenney, Lucy Hayes, David Laibson card bills on time. On the topic of collaborations, Ralph Hertwig credits his best work to them: “generally I’m proud of Dan Goldstein feels similarly, crediting his proudest work (helping people comprehend the numbers that

  • Discounts: Spending rather than Saving?

    And just throw out all your credit cards if you can't even remember what the reason was you went into Bargain hunting can turn in obsessive behaviours that can ruin your life, or at least your credit score

  • 25 Things I learned from Behavioural Economics (part 2)

    Figure out how banks, credit card providers and payday lenders are trying to screw you ever.

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