AREC 815: Behavioral and Experimental Economics (Fall 2016)
Syllabus
Reading List (First Half)
Reading List (Second Half)
Lecture Notes:
What Is Behavioral Economics? What Is an Experiment?
Simple Distributional Preference Experiments Demonstrate that Humans Are Not Completely Selfish
Are Distributional Preferences Rational?
Estimating Distributional Preference Parameters
Reciprocity and Conditional Cooperation
Charitable Giving
Transfers in Networks
Measuring Risk Preferences
Prospect Theory
Experiments Testing Prospect Theory
Stochastic Choice in Experiments
Present Bias
Contract Design when Agents Are Present Biased
Applications of Present Bias: Addiction
Problem Sets:
Problem Set 0 is due September 6
Problem Set 1 is due September 22
Problem Set 2 is due October 6
Problem Set 3 is due November 3
Problem Set 4 is due December 3
Presentations:
Presentation Assignment 1 is due September 26
Presentation Assignment 2 is due November 16