Editors’ introduction. Recent applications and developments in behavioral economics and finance

This special issue of the Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy is the follow-up of the 2nd ECMCRC Summer School on Behavioral and Neuroscientific research for Economics, Finance and Accounting, hosted by Dublin City University (DCU) Business School from July 6 to July 10, 2020. It includes nine articles first elaborated and/or presented at the summer school by young researchers in behavioral economics and finance. One of the main constraint to publication of an article in our special issue was its positioning at the research frontier in behavioral economics and finance. The published articles are quite heterogenous in terms of topic with a high level of interdisciplinarity, while as for the methodology they can be regrouped into three main categories, with three articles for each of the three categories. The first category includes a group of critical reviews of the most recent articles in behavioral economics and finance. The second category contains theoretical works on the policy impact of new behavioral features. The third category includes three empirical works, bringing new evidence to well-known questions in behavioral economics. Each article presents implications of behavioral economics for public policy, and eventually a framework for policy makers.