Public and private bodies influence people's behaviour through a number of different mechanisms. In recent years, there has been a dramatic increase in the use of data and experimentation in facilitating this process. This talk will review the recent debate on public policy and regulation and put forward pragmatic principles for the ethical use of influence techniques by public and private organisations.
Students, alumni, researchers, policymakers, industry, and the general public are invited by the Department of Economics, University of Malta for the talk by Prof. Liam Delaney.
The talk will take place on 30 April 2018 between 18:00 and 19:00 in the ICT Auditorium, University of Malta Msida Campus
Prof. Liam Delaney is Professor of Economics at University College Dublin. A former Fulbright and Marie-Curie fellow, he has developed some of the earliest teaching and research programmes in behavioural economics in both Ireland and the UK. His work has been published in leading journals in Economics and Psychology and he has worked on many applications of behavioural economics in policy and regulation. He is known as a wide-ranging and thought-provoking speaker with a particular interest in bringing ideas from this emerging literature into the broader public debate about key issues affecting human welfare.