Advancing Beyond Advances in Behavioral Economics
讨论行为经济学领域,聚焦《行为经济学进展》中的论文,指出存在具有经济意义且规律可建模的“行为事实”,并建议该领域应更多关注模型基础,发展对更广泛现象的统一解释。
This essay discusses the field of behavioral economics, with a focus on the papers in Advances in Behavioral Economics. These papers show that there is a body of “behavioral facts” that is both economically significant and regular enough to be modeled. For the field to advance further, it should devote more attention to the foundations of its models, and develop unified explanations for a wider range of phenomena.