Lectures
A living-document seminar reader. Each lecture below is a draft that will keep changing as the term unfolds.
- 01 Welcome notes slides Aug 18
- 02 The Standard Model: Expected Utility slides
- 03 Evidence that Contradicts Expected Utility slides
- 04 Prospect Theory slides
- 05 Applications of Prospect Theory slides
- 06 Reference-Dependent Preferences slides
- 07 Warm-up: interest rates, compounding, present discounted value slides
- 08 The Standard Model: Exponential Discounting slides
- 09 Evidence that Contradicts Exponential Discounting slides
- 10 An Alternative Model: Present Bias slides
- 11 Applications of Present Bias slides
- 12 Utility from anticipation slides
- 13 Projection bias — mispredicting future tastes slides
- 14 Is "paternalism" acceptable or justified? slides
- 15 Optimal sin taxes slides
- 16 The Standard Model: Bayesian information processing slides
- 17 Evidence that contradicts Bayesian processing slides
- 18 An alternative model: the "law of small numbers" slides
- 19 Altruism and Social Preferences slides
- 20 The Psychological Costs of Poverty slides