You owe it to yourself: The financially literate manager

Why you don't owe it to yourself to seek health.

Sider and Clements provide a critical response to my view that there is no independent obligation to seek one's own health. They then argue that such an obligation exists. They are incorrect in their characterisation of my view; their critical discussion of the view they erroneously attribute to me is unconvincing; the positive argument they offer for their own view is unsatisfactory; they misj...

You owe it to yourself: boosting retirement saving with a responsibility-based appeal.

Americans are not saving enough for retirement. Previous research suggests that this is due, in part, to people's tendency to think of the future self as more like another person than like the present self, making saving feel like giving money away rather than like investing in oneself. Using objective employer saving data, a field experiment capitalized on this phenomenon to increase saving. I...

BRIEF REPORT You Owe It to Yourself: Boosting Retirement Saving With a Responsibility-Based Appeal

Americans are not saving enough for retirement. Previous research suggests that this is due, in part, to people’s tendency to think of the future self as more like another person than like the present self, making saving feel like giving money away rather than like investing in oneself. Using objective employer saving data, a field experiment capitalized on this phenomenon to increase saving. I...

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General You Owe It to Yourself: Boosting Retirement Saving With a Responsibility-Based Appeal

When You Buy from Yourself, How Much Should It Cost?

The title may suggest a "play on words," but it is not. Were I to rely solely on professional jargon, a more appropriate title might have been "Intra-company Transfer Pricing." More precisely, within a multi-division company where one division transfers a product, resource, or service to another division and this transfer is accompanied by an accounting charge, the process is known as intracomp...