Tag Archives: behavioural

Access to Cash: Costs to Consumers and SMEs of a Loss of Access to In-person Cash and Banking Services

Sector:Consumer markets and protection.
Client:Financial Conduct Authority
Published: 6 February, 2024

London Economics led this study for the FCA to estimate the costs to consumers and SMEs from loss of access to cash and in-person banking services. The research explored how consumers and SMEs currently use these services and how they would behave if they lost access to these services. It identified that access to these […]

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Consumer Focused Regulation in Legal Services – June 2023

Sector:Consumer markets and protection.
Client:Legal Services Consumer Panel
Published: 15 June, 2023

London Economics was commissioned by the Legal Services Consumer Panel – an independent arm of the Legal Services Board –  to undertake research to develop a set of indicators to serve as guidance on good practice in consumer focused regulation. The Legal Services Consumer Panel is calling on legal services regulators to focus more of […]

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Part and Parcel: The Economic and Social Value of Post Office – February 2023

Sector:Public Policy.
Client:Post Office
Published: 22 February, 2023

London Economics were commissioned by Post Office to analyse the economic and social value of Post Office. Post Office generated an economic impact of £4.7 billion in 2021/22 throughout the whole of the United Kingdom, with at least £2 million of economic impact originating in every parliamentary constituency. Post Office also supported nearly 50,000 full-time […]

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Using Behavioural Insights for Water Demand | Behavioural Economics in Focus Issue 3

Sector:Behavioural Economics.
Client:N/A
Published: 23rd August, 2022

Hosepipe bans across England and Wales: time to turn to behavioural insights for managing water use With England’s water reservoirs at a 25-year low and hosepipe bans being introduced by the majority of water companies, Dr Charlotte Duke and James Suter consider the evidence on the effectiveness of hosepipe bans and recommend harnessing the power […]

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The Behavioural Tool Kit – What You Need to Know and Why Should You Care

Sector:Behavioural Economics.
Client:N/A
Published: 04 May, 2022

James Suter and Tiffany Head of London Economics’ Behavioural Team explain how behavioural economics provides many powerful insights on how people behave and why, with real-world applications in the worlds of business and policy making… What is Behavioural Economics? Behavioural economics is the study of human behaviour and how our ‘behavioural biases’ and the context […]

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New Year, New You, New Nudges

Sector:Behavioural Economics.
Client:N/A
Published: 12 January, 2022

Only around a third of us manage to keep our new year’s resolutions[i]. As 2022 begins, Joscelyn Miller from London Economics’ Behavioural Team reflects on why we are so bad at sticking to plans and how adopting a behavioural approach can help you succeed this year…  The new year perfectly lends itself to goal setting, […]

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A Pandemic’s Worth of Change – June 2021

Sector:Data & technology.
Client:Webloyalty
Published: 17 June, 2021

London Economics and Webloyalty reveal the top consumer trends formed during the pandemic which are here to stay and how behavioural economics can help your firm thrive post-pandemic.

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Presentation of LE-Europe’s Behavioural Study on the Digitalisation of the Marketing and Distance Selling of Retail Financial Services

Sector:Behavioural Economics.
Client:European Commission
Published: 18 June, 2019

Divisional Director James Suter presented LE-Europe’s behavioural study on the digitalisation of the marketing and distance selling of retail financial services at the joint CEPS-ECRI/European Commission conference on protecting consumers taking credit in the digital era, in Brussels on 18th June 2019. This study examines the impacts on consumers of practices used by providers of […]

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