Notes on behavioural economics
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Preface
Economic foundations
1
Preferences
2
Rationality
3
Utility
4
Economic foundation exercises
Decision making under risk and uncertainty
5
Notation and mathematical background
6
Expected value
7
Axioms for Expected Utility Theory
8
Expected Utility Theory
9
Subjective expected utility theory
10
Expected utility examples
11
Anomalies in expected utility theory
12
Risk and uncertainty exercises
Prospect theory
13
Reference dependence
14
Loss aversion
15
The reflection effect
16
The value function
17
Probability weighting
18
Prospect theory implementation
19
Prospect theory examples
20
Prospect theory applications
21
Prospect theory exercises
Intertemporal choice
22
Exponential discounting
23
Exponential discounting examples
24
Exponential discounting anomalies
25
Present bias
26
Present bias examples
27
Sophisticated present bias
28
Commitment
29
Delayed gratification, spread and variation
30
Intertemporal choice applications
31
Intertemporal choice exercises
Beliefs
32
Probability foundations
33
Bayes’ rule
34
Heuristics
35
Biases in probability judgment
36
Heuristics and the bias-variance trade-off
37
Overconfidence
38
Beliefs exercises
Game theory
39
Simultaneous-move one-shot games
40
Sequential games
41
Asymmetric information
42
Strategic moves and commitment
43
Game theory exercises
Behavioural game theory
44
Level-k thinking
45
Asymmetric information and the curse of knowledge
46
Emotions
47
Behavioural game theory exercises
Social preferences
48
Distribution
49
Reputation
50
Reciprocity
51
Social preferences exercises
Practice problems
52
Expected utility theory problems
53
Prospect theory problems
54
Intertemporal choice problems
55
Beliefs problems
56
Behavioural game theory problems
References
Practice problems
This section comprises practice problems drawn from past assessments delivered in the subject.
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Social preferences exercises
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Expected utility theory problems