As part of business analytics (BA) technologies, reporting and visualization play essential
roles in mitigating users' limitations (ie, being inexperienced, having limited knowledge, and …

This chapter reviews research in behavioral economics and financial literacy that raises
concerns that consumers lack competence to make complex financial decisions. Consumers …

This updated and expanded edition of Persuasive Communication offers a comprehensive
introduction to persuasion and real-world decision making. Drawing on empirical research …

Background: Interactive data and information visualization (IDIV) enhances information
presentations by providing users with multiple visual representations, active controls, and …

The analysis of migration under conditions of potential economic and political upheaval is
challenging because these undermine the institutional framework that underpins existing …

Investors significantly reduce their future returns by selecting mutual funds with higher fees,
allured by higher past returns that do not predict future performance. This suboptimal …

We summarize the current debate surrounding four small‐dollar credit products: pawn loans,
vehicle title loans, payday loans, and cash installment loans from finance companies. We …

Ants use heuristics to measure the area of a candidate nest cavity. Humans rely on
elimination heuristics to choose a smartphone from hundreds of options. Animals, humans …

The goal of making people better off “by their own standard” in the New Paternalism
research program of Thaler-and-Sunsteininspired “nudging” raises a number of theoretical …

This article examines information-search heuristics and communication patterns in an online
forum of investors during a period of market uncertainty. Global connections, real-time …