Lucia A. Reisch

El-Erian Institute for Behavioural Economics and Policy

El-Erian Professor of Behavioural Economics and Policy

Trumpington Rd 25

Cambridge

Great Britain

Copenhagen Business School - Department of Management, Society and Communication

Full Professor

Solbjerg Plads 3

Frederiksberg C, DK - 2000

Denmark

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

30

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Scholarly Papers (30)

1.

Automatically Green: Behavioral Economics and Environmental Protection

Harvard Environmental Law Review, Vol. 38, No. 1, 2014
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 07 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 01 Aug 2014
Cass R. Sunstein and Lucia A. Reisch
Harvard Law School and El-Erian Institute for Behavioural Economics and Policy
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Behavioral economics, default rules, social norms, active choosing, green energy

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Do Europeans Like Nudges?

Judgment and Decision Making, Vol. 11, No. 4, July 2016, pp. 310–325
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 29 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 26 Jan 2017
Lucia A. Reisch and Cass R. Sunstein
El-Erian Institute for Behavioural Economics and Policy and Harvard Law School
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Behavioral Insights All Over the World? Public Attitudes Toward Nudging in a Multi-Country Study

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 21 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 04 May 2017
Cass R. Sunstein, Lucia A. Reisch and Julius Rauber
Harvard Law School, El-Erian Institute for Behavioural Economics and Policy and Zeppelin University
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nudges; public approval; behavioural insights; regulation

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'Nudging Germany'? Herausforderungen Für Eine Verhaltensbasierte Regulierung in Deutschland (Nudging Germany? Challenges for Behavioural Regulation in Germany)

Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht 2016, 629., Wageningen Working Papers in Law and Governance 9/2015
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 19 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 03 Jun 2017
Kai P. Purnhagen and Lucia A. Reisch
University of Bayreuth and El-Erian Institute for Behavioural Economics and Policy
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Kanzleramt, nudge, EU law, USA, regulation

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Can Green Defaults Reduce Meat Consumption?

Food Policy, 110, 102298
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 13 Aug 2021 Last Revised: 02 Aug 2023
Ruhr University of Bochum - Faculty of Economics, Rhine-Westphalia Institute for Economic Research (RWI-Essen), Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), Stockholm and El-Erian Institute for Behavioural Economics and Policy
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defaults, meat consumption, food policy, behavioural intervention, climate change mitigation

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A World-Wide Consensus on Nudging? Not Quite, But Almost

Regulation and Governance, Forthcoming, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 17-39
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 20 Apr 2017
Cass R. Sunstein, Lucia A. Reisch and Julius Rauber
Harvard Law School, El-Erian Institute for Behavioural Economics and Policy and Zeppelin University
Downloads 762 (69,972)
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nudges; public approval; behavioural insights; regulation

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Climate-Friendly Default Rules

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 18 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 26 Feb 2017
Cass R. Sunstein and Lucia A. Reisch
Harvard Law School and El-Erian Institute for Behavioural Economics and Policy
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climate change, default rules, nudge, choice architecture

What do people want to know? Information avoidance and food policy implications

Reisch, L. A., Sunstein, C. R., & Kaiser, M. (2021). What do people want to know? Information avoidance and food policy implications. Food Policy, 102, Article 102076. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2021.102076
Number of pages: 142 Posted: 05 May 2021 Last Revised: 12 Jun 2021
El-Erian Institute for Behavioural Economics and Policy, Harvard Law School and University of HohenheimCopenhagen Business School - Department of Management, Society and Communication
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Willingness to know, willingness to pay for information, information avoidance, cross-cultural survey, welfare effects of food information

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Greener by Default

Forthcoming in Trinity Law Review , Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 18-10
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 10 Jan 2018 Last Revised: 13 Apr 2018
Cass R. Sunstein and Lucia A. Reisch
Harvard Law School and El-Erian Institute for Behavioural Economics and Policy
Downloads 373 (167,775)
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Kann man Nudging trauen? Wie man in Baden-Württemberg über verhaltensbasierte Stimuli denkt (Can Nudges Be Trusted? How People in Baden-Wuerttemberg Think about Behavior-Based Stimuli)

Forthcoming, Adrian Boos, Tobias Brönneke, Andrea Wechsler (Eds.) (2018): Konsum und Nachhaltige Entwicklung: Verbraucherpolitik neu denken, Baden-Baden: Nomos-Verlag.
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 26 Sep 2018
Micha Kaiser, Micha Kaiser and Lucia A. Reisch
University of HohenheimCopenhagen Business School - Department of Management, Society and Communication and El-Erian Institute for Behavioural Economics and Policy
Downloads 370 (169,846)

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Nudging, Behavioral Policy, Verhaltensbasierte Verbraucherpolitik, behavioral insights, attitudes

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Algorithmen und Verbraucher (Algorithms and Consumers)

Number of pages: 73 Posted: 30 Sep 2020
Lucia A. Reisch, Sabine Bietz and Hans‐W. Micklitz
El-Erian Institute for Behavioural Economics and Policy, Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen and European University Institute - Department of Law (LAW)
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Algorithms, Consumers, Data Privacy, GDPR, Consumer Informatics

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On Liking Algorithms

Forthcoming in Environmental and Resource Economics (symposium on Daniel Kahneman)
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 12 Apr 2024
Cass R. Sunstein and Lucia A. Reisch
Harvard Law School and El-Erian Institute for Behavioural Economics and Policy
Downloads 239 (273,067)

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algorithms, the law of small numbers, noise, cognitive biases, algorithm aversion, algorithm appreciation

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Which Europeans Like Nudges? Approval and Controversy in Four European Countries

Forthcoming in Journal of Consumer Affairs
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 07 Feb 2018
The Ohio State University - Department of Human Sciences, Harvard Law School, Zeppelin University and El-Erian Institute for Behavioural Economics and Policy
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Sustainable Consumption Now! The German National Programme for Sustainable Consumption on the Test Bed

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 25 Sep 2020
El-Erian Institute for Behavioural Economics and Policy, Öko-Institut e.V., Öko-Institut e.V., ConPolicy GmbH, Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin), ConPolicy GmbH and Öko-Institut e.V.
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National Programme for Sustainable Consumption, Germany, Sustainability Strategy, Sustainability Governance

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Zeit, Wohlstand und Gutes Leben: Was kann Zeitpolitik zur Großen Transformation beitragen? (Time, Prosperity and the Good Life: How Time Policies Can Contribute to the Great Transformation)

Martin Held, Gisela Kubon-Gilke & Richard Sturm (Eds.). Politische Ökonomik großer Transformation, Jahrbuch Band 15. Marburg: Meotropolis Verlag. (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 30 Jul 2015
Lucia A. Reisch and Sabine Bietz
El-Erian Institute for Behavioural Economics and Policy and Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen
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Time and welfare, temporalities, transformation processes, transformation of time regimes, innovative time policies, wealth in time, the Good Life

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The Power of Green Defaults: The Impact of Regional Variation of Opt-out Tariffs on Green Energy Demand in Germany

Ecological Economics, 2020
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 13 Jul 2020
University of HohenheimCopenhagen Business School - Department of Management, Society and Communication, Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen, Harvard Law School and El-Erian Institute for Behavioural Economics and Policy
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What Shapes Sustainable Food Choices? A Field Experiment on the Impact of a Behaviorally Informed Intervention and a Price Variation on Sustainable Food Choices

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 12 Sep 2024
Alice Pizzo, Jan Michael Bauer and Lucia A. Reisch
Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen Business School and El-Erian Institute for Behavioural Economics and Policy
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field experiment, sustainable food choices, meat reduction, information provision, financial incentives

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An Online Randomised Controlled Trial of Price and Non-Price Interventions to Promote Sustainable Food Choices on Food Delivery Platforms

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 09 May 2024 Last Revised: 19 Oct 2024
Cambridge Judge Business School, El-Erian Institute, Institute of Public Finance, Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Innsbruck, The Behavioural Insights Team, The Behavioural Insights Team and El-Erian Institute for Behavioural Economics and Policy
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carbon-footprint labelling, choice architecture, food-delivery apps, low-carbon diets, repositioning, reordering, meat tax, carbon tax, RCT

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Demand-side interventions for sustainable food systems: A meta-analysis of food-policy interventions targeting food consumption and waste behaviours

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 30 Apr 2024 Last Revised: 06 Dec 2024
Cambridge Judge Business School, El-Erian Institute, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen Business School, University of British Columbia (UBC), Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC), Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) and El-Erian Institute for Behavioural Economics and Policy
Downloads 142 (426,506)
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meta-analysis, evidence synthesis, demand-side interventions, food policy, food waste, sustainable food consumption, behaviour change

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Mitigating Climate Change via Food Consumption and Food Waste: A Systematic Map of Behavioral Interventions

Journal of Cleaner Production, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 25 Sep 2020
El-Erian Institute for Behavioural Economics and Policy, Harvard Law School, Rhine-Westphalia Institute for Economic Research (RWI-Essen), Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), Stockholm and Ruhr University of Bochum - Faculty of Economics
Downloads 141 (428,922)
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systematic map, behavioral insights, nudges, food waste, animal protein, climate change mitigation

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On Preferring People to Algorithms

Number of pages: 86 Posted: 27 Feb 2025
Micha Kaiser, Cass R. Sunstein and Lucia A. Reisch
University of Cambridge, Harvard Law School and El-Erian Institute for Behavioural Economics and Policy
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algorithm aversion, algorithm appreciation, informational interventions, institutional trust, intercultural differences, algorithm experience Declarations

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Food Waste Salience and Task Knowledge to Reduce Individual Food Waste: A Field Experiment in a Restaurant Setting

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 03 Oct 2024
Copenhagen Business School, University of Bern, Copenhagen Business School and El-Erian Institute for Behavioural Economics and Policy
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Food Waste, Field Experiment, Behavioral Intervention, RCT

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Maternal Employment and Childhood Obesity: A European Perspective

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7371
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 11 May 2013
Copenhagen Business School, University of Hohenheim - Institute of Household and Consumer Economics, El-Erian Institute for Behavioural Economics and Policy, University of Bremen, Ghent University, University of Gothenburg, University of Zaragoza, Research and Education Institute of Child Health (Strovolos), University of Pécs, National Research Council (CNR), National Institute for Health Development (Tallinn), Lancaster University and University of Bremen
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maternal employment, children, obesity, Europe

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Shaping Healthy and Sustainable Food Systems with Behavioural Food Policy

Reisch, L. A. (2021). Shaping healthy and sustainable food systems with behavioural food policy. European Review of Agricultural Economics, Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbab024
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 12 Aug 2021
Lucia A. Reisch
El-Erian Institute for Behavioural Economics and Policy
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Food policy, nudges, behavioural public policy, food systems, healthy planetary diets, transformative research

Nudging, Fast and Slow: Experimental Evidence from Food Choices Under Time Pressure

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 03 Dec 2024 Last Revised: 21 Feb 2025
Cambridge Judge Business School, El-Erian Institute, Institute of Public Finance, Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Innsbruck, University of Copenhagen and El-Erian Institute for Behavioural Economics and Policy
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carbon-footprint labelling, choice architecture, food-delivery apps, low-carbon diets, dual-process models

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Peer Effects on Obesity in a Sample of European Children

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9051
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 18 May 2015
Copenhagen Business School, University of Hohenheim - Institute of Household and Consumer Economics, El-Erian Institute for Behavioural Economics and Policy, University of Bremen, University of Gothenburg, Research and Education Institute of Child Health (Strovolos), University of Pécs, National Research Council (CNR), University of Tartu, University of Zaragoza, Ghent University and University of Bremen
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peer effects, children, obesity, Europe

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Carbon Taxes Crowd Out Climate Concern: Experimental Evidence from Sustainable Consumer Choices

Number of pages: 37
Copenhagen Business School, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen Business School and El-Erian Institute for Behavioural Economics and Policy
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Behavioral response, Carbon pricing, Climate change, Climate Policy, Experiment, Moral Licensing

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Trusting Nudges? Lessons from an International Survey

Cass R. Sunstein, Lucia A. Reisch & Micha Kaiser (2018) Trusting nudges? Lessons from an international survey, Journal of European Public Policy, DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2018.1531912 , Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 18-35
Posted: 13 Jun 2018 Last Revised: 07 Nov 2018
Harvard Law School, El-Erian Institute for Behavioural Economics and Policy and University of HohenheimCopenhagen Business School - Department of Management, Society and Communication

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behaviourally public policy, choice architecture, nudge, public approval, trust, online representative survey

Young Adults and Their Finances: An International Comparative Study on Applied Financial Literacy

Posted: 18 Dec 2017
Bamberg University, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, School of Business, Reykjavik University, El-Erian Institute for Behavioural Economics and Policy and Concordia University, Quebec - Department of Finance

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Financial Literacy, Financial Education, Personal Finance, Young Adults

Young Adults and Their Finances: An International Comparative Study on Applied Financial Literacy

Posted: 08 Mar 2023
Bamberg University, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, School of Business, Reykjavik University, El-Erian Institute for Behavioural Economics and Policy and Concordia University, Quebec - Department of Finance

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Risk Aversion, Young adults, Retail Investors, Household Finance

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Redesigning Cockpits: Introduction to Special Issue of Journal of Consumer Policy on Behavioural Economics, Environmental Policy and the Consumer

Journal of Consumer Policy, 37(3), May 30, 2014 (available "online first") DOI 10.1007/s10603-014-9267-z
Posted: 28 May 2014 Last Revised: 18 May 2017
Lucia A. Reisch and Cass R. Sunstein
El-Erian Institute for Behavioural Economics and Policy and Harvard Law School

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Behavioral economics, default rules, social norms, active choosing, green energy