Teaching Interest
Teaching Interest
Behavioral Economics and Applications in Markets (Econ 970, Spring 2013 and 2014)
Description
Second-year undergraduate course introducing students to academic research in the field of behavioral economics. The course covers key models of time-inconsistent preferences, overconfidence, social preferences, and projection bias. The students are introduced to theoretical models of these behavioral biases as well as empirical and experimental tests of such models, and applications to a variety of real-world market interactions. The course is intensely discussion-based.