Lectures
A living-document seminar reader. Each lecture below is a draft that will keep changing as the term unfolds.
- 01 Welcome to Behavioral Economics notes slides edited Sep 2
- 02 The Standard Model: Expected Utility notes slides edited Sep 8
- 03 Expected Utility, concluded · The Evidence Against It begins notes slides edited Sep 8
- 04 Evidence that Contradicts Expected Utility, continued notes slides edited Sep 10
- 05 Prospect Theory notes slides edited Sep 15
- 06 Applications of Prospect Theory slides
- 07 Applications of Prospect Theory, continued slides
- 08 Reference-Dependent Preferences slides
- 09 Warm-up on Interest Rates slides
- 10 The Standard Model: Exponential Discounting slides
- 11 An Alternative Model: Present Bias slides
- 12 Present Bias, continued: Choices, Beliefs, and Self-Control
- 13 Present Bias: Naïfs, Sophisticates, and Doing It Once
- 14 Present Bias: Procrastination and Health Clubs
- 15 Present Bias: Saving and Commitment
- 16 Utility from Anticipation
- 17 Projection Bias — Mispredicting Future Tastes
- 18 Public Policy: Paternalism and Optimal Sin Taxes
- 19 Exam 2 Review and Worked Problems
- 20 The Standard Model: Bayesian Information Processing
- 21 Bayesian Processing: Applications and Belief Errors
- 22 An Alternative Model: The "Law of Small Numbers"
- 23 Altruism and Social Preferences
- 24 Social Preferences: Welfare and Reciprocity
- 25 The Psychological Costs of Poverty · Course Synthesis