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 slides
- 04 Evidence that Contradicts Expected Utility, continued
- 05 Prospect Theory
- 06 Applications of Prospect Theory
- 07 Applications of Prospect Theory, continued
- 08 Reference-Dependent Preferences
- 09 Warm-up on Interest Rates, then the Standard Model: Exponential Discounting
- 10 Evidence that Contradicts Exponential Discounting
- 11 An Alternative Model: Present Bias
- 12 Present Bias, continued
- 13 Applications of Present Bias
- 14 Applications of Present Bias, continued
- 15 Utility from Anticipation
- 16 Projection Bias — Mispredicting Future Tastes
- 17 Is "Paternalism" Acceptable or Justified?
- 18 Optimal Sin Taxes
- 19 The Standard Model: Bayesian Information Processing
- 20 Bayesian Processing, concluded · The Evidence Against It begins
- 21 Evidence that Contradicts Bayesian Processing, continued
- 22 An Alternative Model: The "Law of Small Numbers"
- 23 Altruism and Social Preferences
- 24 Altruism and Social Preferences, continued
- 25 The Psychological Costs of Poverty