This special issue seeks research exploring how consumers can make wiser choices and how innovation can better serve consumer and societal flourishing. The focus encompasses understanding consumer wisdom—the capacity for informed, ethical, and sustainable decision-making—alongside innovations designed to promote wellbeing rather than merely maximize consumption. The work also addresses how public policy can create environments that support these goals.

The special issue welcomes research from marketing, economics, public policy, behavioral science, and related disciplines that examines the interconnections between consumer behavior, innovation strategies, and policy frameworks. Submissions may explore mechanisms for improving consumer decision-making, designing responsible innovation, and implementing policies that advance both individual and collective flourishing.

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Potential topics

• Consumer wisdom and informed decision-making
• Wiser innovation for sustainable and ethical consumption
• Public policy approaches to promote consumer flourishing
• Behavioral economics and consumer protection
• Sustainable consumption patterns
• Ethical innovation and corporate responsibility
• Digital literacy and consumer empowerment
• Health-conscious consumption
• Environmental sustainability in consumer behavior
• Social equity in marketplace access

Sanchayan Banerjee, King's College London

Lory Barile, University of Warwick

This special issue focuses on Behavioural Environmental Economics & Policy (BEEP), which examines how departures from rational choice assumptions—such as bounded rationality and bounded willpower—affect environmental decision-making and policy effectiveness. The issue seeks to consolidate evidence on how behavioural insights can improve the design and evaluation of environmental policies to address urgent challenges including climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution.

The special issue welcomes conceptual, empirical, and policy-oriented contributions applying behavioural insights to environmental problems. Submissions may employ various methodologies including experiments, quasi-experimental designs, and literature reviews. The issue particularly values work that identifies both market and behavioural failures, designs and tests policies combining traditional instruments with behavioural tools, and evaluates their effectiveness and welfare impacts.

This is an invitation-only special issue in Environmental and Resource Economics.

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Potential topics

• Interactions between market failures and behavioural failures in environmental settings
• Policy design that combines prices/standards with behavioural tools (defaults, salience/framing, simplification, commitment)
• Welfare analysis (including psychological costs), ethics, and paternalism in environmental policy
• Empirical identification of behavioural mechanisms; field/lab/quasi-experimental evidence
• Heterogeneity, equity, and distributional consequences of behavioural environmental policies
• Replication, meta-analysis, and open-science practices in this domain
• Choice architecture and environmental outcomes
• Interactions between behavioural instruments and prices/regulation
• Climate cognition and communication
• Evaluation and methods

Timeline

• November 30, 2026: Submission deadline

Steffen Hurka, Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen

Nir Kosti, LMU Munich

Brigitte Pircher, Södertörn University

This special issue examines why the European Union has struggled to reduce its regulatory complexity despite decades of simplification initiatives. Rather than treating simplification as a technical problem, the call frames it as a fundamentally political process involving conflicting interests, competing values, and strategic actors. The issue seeks to understand the gap between EU commitments to simplification and their limited concrete results.

The special issue invites research across three dimensions: the actors involved in promoting or resisting simplification and how they form coalitions; the institutional processes and mechanisms through which simplification efforts unfold; and the actual outcomes and conditions under which simplification succeeds, fails, or produces unintended consequences. Research employing qualitative, quantitative, mixed-methods, or computational approaches is welcome, and submissions from early-career researchers are particularly encouraged.

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Potential topics

• Who promotes or resists simplification, and why?
• How do distributional conflicts and coalitions shape simplification efforts?
• How is simplification politicised across institutional and societal arenas?
• How do simplification efforts unfold within EU institutions?
• Why do political commitments to simplification rarely translate into legislative change?
• What role do Better Regulation instruments (e.g. impact assessments, Regulatory Scrutiny Board, REFIT, omnibus packages) play in shaping simplification?
• Under what conditions does simplification lead to actual rule reduction?
• Under what conditions does simplification result in symbolic reform, or even an expansion of rules?
• How can the outcomes of simplification be measured systematically?

Timeline

• July 22, 2026: Abstract submission deadline
• June 1, 2027: Full manuscript submission deadline