Neuroeconomics

Researchers at University College London built a model of how Bitcoin's mining collisions arise, linking network delays and power concentration to wasted electricity totaling roughly 16,000 megawatts in a single year.

Researchers put wearable EEG headsets on 16 professional day traders during real, high-stakes trading. Brief spikes in neural engagement before a trade predicted better outcomes; steady all-day alertness did not.

As AI-generated hosts flood shopping livestreams, new research suggests the facial traits humans find beautiful in each other can backfire on machines. A flawless synthetic face may signal fakeness, while subtle asymmetry can boost engagement.

A working paper finds that decades-long swings in real interest rates across the U.S., Germany, U.K., and Japan track slow-moving inflation expectations shaped by what people have personally lived through.

Weekly U.S. data show that a hot week produces a brief economic bump, then a slow slide that lasts more than a year, with labor markets driving most of the decline.

Do people really grow more cautious with money as they age? A meta-analysis of 46 studies finds the answer hinges on how researchers measure risk, with surveys and psychological games telling opposite stories.

People cooperated with machines and humans alike in one-shot games, but in repeated play they exploited artificial agents more, defecting even when they expected the machine to cooperate, a new lab study finds.

Why do women tend to take fewer financial risks than men? A brain-imaging study offers evidence that a link between emotion, numbers, and future-thinking regions relates to caution in women, but not men.

A study of 270 young workers finds that creativity and problem-solving predict workplace adaptability better than memory or attention, with the most useful skills shifting between start-ups and established firms.

Using random genetic variation as a stand-in for a controlled experiment, researchers estimate that one extra year of schooling raises earnings by about 8% in Norway, higher than conventional methods suggest.