040288 SE Applied Behavioral Economics (MA) (2017W)

Lehrende

• Axel Sonntag
• Martin Kocher

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

PRELIMINARIES (3/10)
• Presentation of seminar structure, examination criteria
• Task in preparation of class 1: if not already done so, read the references in the reading list

CLASS 1 – INTRODUCTION TO (APPLIED) BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS (17/10)
• Basic behavioral findings (rationality, heuristics and biases etc.)
• Status quo and current research trends, publication bias
• Applied research, practical implementation: field experiments

CLASS 2 – EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMICS AND RESEARCH DESIGNS (24/10)
• Identification, causality
• Basic experimental designs
• Typical experimental issues
• Specific issues related to outside-the-lab experiments

CLASS 3 – INTRODUCTION OF TOPICS BY PRACTITIONERS (31/10)
• Practitioners introduce their topics
• Based on topic-wise preferences students self-sort into groups of 2-3
• The main forum of interaction will be moodle
• Task in preparation of class 4: develop a detailed working schedule

CLASS 4 – PRACTITIONER PRESENTS TOPICS (14/11)
• Task in preparation of class 5: Literature review on the chosen topic
• draft working schedule

CLASS 5 –PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSION OF THE TOPICAL STATE OF THE FIELD, INCL. WORKING SCHEDULE (21/11)
• Short presentation of the literature review and the potential remedies to the problems at stake
• Public discussion of the working schedules (one per group)
• Tasks in preparation of class 6:
o Selecting an action proposal and preparing it in full detail
o Developing an experimental design to test the effectiveness of the proposed interventions

CLASS 6 – PRESENTATION OF THE STATUS QUO (12/12)
• Public discussion of the detailed proposals
• Detailed feedback to the action proposals and the experimental designs

CLASS 7 – PRESENTATION OF THE FINAL CONCEPT (9/1)
• Presentation of the fully developed action proposal including experimental design
• Detailed public discussion of all proposals

CLASS 8 – PRESENTATION TO PRACTITIONERS (23/1)
• Action proposals are presented to practitioners, active discussion
• The best proposals might be invited to be pursued in a Master thesis (with practitioners as partners).