Private Law Theory

Policy-makers show an increasing interest in ‘nudges’ – behaviorally informed interventions that steer people in certain directions but that maintain freedom of consumer choice. Despite general evidence, across nations, of majority approval of nudges involving health, safety, and the environment, little evidence has surfaced about which population groups support nudges and nudging. In particular, the present study investigates why consumers in selected European countries differ markedly in their attitudes toward behavioral nudges as policy tools employed by their national governments … (more)

Cäzilia Loibl, Cass R Sunstein, Julius Rauber and Lucia A Reisch, Oxford Business Law Blog, 13 April.

First posted 2018-04-13 05:49:21