BACKGROUND Financial incentive interventions have been suggested as one method of promoting healthy behaviour change. OBJECTIVES To conduct a systematic review of the effectiveness of financial incentive interventions for encouraging healthy behaviour change; to explore whether effects vary according to the type of behaviour incentivised, post-intervention follow-up time, or incentive value. ...

Agent based models take into account limited rational behaviour of individuals acting on financial markets. Explicit simulation of this behaviour and the resulting interaction of individuals provide a description of aggregate financial market time series. Although the outcomes of such simulations often exhibit similarities with real financial market time series, methods for explicit validation ...

The letter examines herding in the most liquid cryptocurrency markets relative to traditional financial of 10 emerging economies within G20. Our results reference significant symmetric crowd and imitation trading, which are dependent on time. Additionally, we report asymmetric herd behaviour stock markets, indicative that traders these react collectively extreme return movement with implied hig...