"How to Follow the 6 Rules of Building Wealth: A Behavioral Economist’s Advice about Personal Finance" Book Manuscript
de Oliveira, Angela C. M., Alexander Smith, and John Spraggon (2017). "Reward the Lucky? An Experimental Investigation of the Impact of Agency and Luck on Bonuses." Journal of Economic Psychology, 62(1), 87 - 97.
Chaudhuri, Ananish, Tirnud Paichayontvijit, and Alexander Smith (2017). "Belief Heterogeneity and Contributions Decay among Conditional Cooperators in Public Goods Games." Journal of Economic Psychology, 58(1), 15 - 30.
Smith, Alexander (2013). "Estimating the Causal Effect of Beliefs on Contributions in Repeated Public Good Games." Experimental Economics, 16(3), 414 - 425.
Smith, Alexander (2012). "Group Composition and Conditional Cooperation." Journal of Socio-Economics, 40(5), 616 - 622.
How is inflation changing the way people spend and make decisions about money? For an article in MarketWatch, Alexander Smith, associate professor of economics in the Department of Social Science and Policy Studies, discussed the disproportionate impact of persistent inflation on lower-income households.
Alexander Smith, associate professor of economics in the Department of Social Science and Policy Studies, provided analysis for a MarketWatch article on investment trends among younger Americans. Smith, who researches behavioral economics and speaks to college students around the country about financial literacy and money management, shared his expertise on factors that can lead to people making riskier decisions with money.
Explore the factors that make it hard to stick with a long-term financial plan. Plus, learn what students know and want to know about personal finance.
