Mark Dean
GR6493 Behavioral Economics
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A behavioral economics course covering bounded rationality, temptation and self control and reference dependent preferences. Please email me if you spot any typos

Course Details and Syllabus

UTILITY AND CHOICE Lecture 1 plus bonus material on the representation theorem for utility maximization, choice, and order theory. A guide to some important failures of rationality.

BOUNDED RATIONALITY Lecture 1 Lecture 2 Lecture 3 Lecture 4 Lecture 5

TEMPTATION AND SELF CONTROL Lecture 1 Lecture 2 Lecture 3 Lecture 4

REFERENCE DEPENDENT PREFERENCES Lecture 1 Lecture 2 Lecture 3 Lecture 4 Lecture 5

Problem Set 1 and data

Problem Set 2

Problem Set 3

Bibliography

Department of Economics

Columbia University, Rm 1031, International Affairs Bld, 420 W. 118th St., New York, NY, 10027, USA

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