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Jeroen Nieboer
Jeroen Nieboer is Technical Specialist in the Behavioural Economics and Design Unit at the FCA and a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics. His work focusses on household finance, causal identification for programme evaluation and the design of behaviourally informed consumer policy.
Financial Wellbeing - can we spot the signs of money worries
What does it mean to be ‘financially well’? Is it having a large bank balance and not getting into debt? Or is it not about how much money you have but rather how comfortable you feel? The answer...
The online laboratory – simulating the world on screen
Online experiments offer a new frontier for social science and policy-making. Behavioural economists from the FCA and the Behavioural Insights Team explain how they are already being used and...
Paying attention or paying charges? It’s all in the timing
Rules requiring banks to automatically provide customers with text alerts if they enter an unauthorised overdraft come into effect this month. The rules, aimed at helping consumers avoid...