Details

Faculty	Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences
Domain	Economics
Code	UE-EEP.00354
Languages	English
Type of lesson	Lecture
Level	Master
Semester	SA-2020

Schedules and rooms

Summary schedule

Wednesday 12:15 - 16:00, Hebdomadaire, PER 21, Room D230

Teaching

Teachers	Freundt Jana
Assistants	Matthewes Elisa Zihlmann Christian
Description	This course covers topics in Behavioral Economics, which aims at integrating insights from psychology into economics. Behavioral economics departs from “mainstream economic theory” by weakening its strong assumptions, such as perfect rationality or pure self-interest. The course will cover central themes in psychology and economics, including time preferences and present-biasedness, the role of social preferences and reciprocity, reference-dependent preferences and loss aversion, as well as belief formation, learning and motivated beliefs.
Training objectives	The goal of the course is to introduce students to some of the key applications of behavioral economics. This involves both formal modeling of behavioral assumptions and the empirical assessment and identification of behavioral biases. As a consequence, the course is suited both for students interested in theoretical and in empirical work.
Softskills	No
Off field	No
BeNeFri	Yes
Mobility	Yes
UniPop	No

Documents

Bibliography

Various papers in academic journals

Examen oral - SP-2021, Session de rattrapage 2021

Assessments methods	By rating
Descriptions of Exams	Exam duration 15 minutes Re-take exam only

Evaluation continue - SA-2020, Session d'hiver 2021

Assessments methods

By rating