Behavioural Economics, 7.5 credits

Spring 2024, Full-time, Linköping

Behavioural Economics, 7.5 credits

Spring 2025, Full-time, Linköping

This course surveys research which incorporates psychological evidence from behavioral experiments into economics. Topics include: present-bias and time-inconsistency in intertemporal choice; reference-dependence and loss aversion in choice under certainty or uncertainty; social preferences such as altruism, fairness, or reciprocity; behavioral game theory. This course offers essential knowledge in how to make psychologically realistic assumptions and predictions about human behavior.