How to change peoples´ behavior through financial education
(WorldNews Spain)

How peoples` behavior affects the economy and how their conduct can be educated so they can aspire to a better present and future wellbeing. That was the central idea of the panel Behavioral economics and financial education, moderated by Jorge Sicilia, director of BBVA Research. The participants included Josh Wright, executive director of Ideas 42; Carlos Ramírez, chairman of the National Commission for Retirement Savings of Mexico and Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at the Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE). It´s the battle between the `quick brain` and the `slow brain`. About how impulsive, precipitated thinking can overtake slow and rationalthought when making an economic or...