По мотивам ежегодной конференции Общества по развитию поведенческойэкономики (SABE), г. Тренто (Италия), 5-7 июня 2025 г.

Abstract

Contemporary research and academic debate in behavioral economics emerged in response to criticism of economics from related disciplines such as sociology, psychology, anthropology, and political science, which accuse economics of lacking realism and excessive formalism. Like many other social science fields, behavioral economics research is primarily aimed at addressing key challenges in modern economics, including modeling socioeconomic processes, identifying their essence and interdependence, and understanding human behavior. Behavioral economics primarily focuses on issues such as the rationality of behavior and decision-making under uncertainty, risk forecasting methods, the theory and empirical evidence of social interactions, expectations and social norms, the evolution of preferences and behavior in behavioral games, and theoretical aspects of economic research methodology. In this article, the author examines these issues using contemporary research presented at the annual conference of the Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics (SABE), held in Trento, Italy, in 2025. Currently, this conference is the largest global discussion platform in the field of behavioral and experimental economics. Its prominence stems from behavioral economics' flexible tools— laboratory experiments—which increasingly explain many economic phenomena and processes. The article also considers promising research in the context of its potential interdisciplinary and cross-cultural applications.