ECO 3700 Behavioral Economics

3 Hours

Prerequisites: ECO 2210 or ECO 2220

This course is designed to incorporate insights from behavioral psychology in the attempt to gain deeper insight into economic behavior, to make better predictions, and to generate improved policy prescriptions. Using these insights, we can explain economic behavior that deviates from the classical assumptions of the purely rational agent. Topics will include time inconsistency, decision making under risk, behavioral game theory, heuristics, and experimental economics.