Universität Wien

040832 UK Behavioral and Experimental Economics (MA) (2018W)

8.00 ECTS (4.00 SWS), SPL 4 - Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung
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An/Abmeldung

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Details

max. 50 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

  • Dienstag 02.10. 18:30 - 20:00 Seminarraum 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Donnerstag 04.10. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 1 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Dienstag 09.10. 18:30 - 20:00 Seminarraum 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Donnerstag 11.10. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 1 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Dienstag 16.10. 18:30 - 20:00 Seminarraum 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Donnerstag 18.10. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 1 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Dienstag 23.10. 18:30 - 20:00 Seminarraum 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Donnerstag 25.10. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 1 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Dienstag 30.10. 18:30 - 20:00 Seminarraum 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Dienstag 06.11. 18:30 - 20:00 Seminarraum 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Donnerstag 08.11. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 1 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Dienstag 13.11. 18:30 - 20:00 Seminarraum 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Donnerstag 15.11. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 1 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Dienstag 20.11. 18:30 - 20:00 Seminarraum 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Donnerstag 22.11. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 1 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Dienstag 27.11. 18:30 - 20:00 Seminarraum 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Donnerstag 29.11. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 1 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Dienstag 04.12. 18:30 - 20:00 Seminarraum 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Donnerstag 06.12. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 1 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Dienstag 11.12. 18:30 - 20:00 Seminarraum 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Donnerstag 13.12. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 1 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Dienstag 08.01. 18:30 - 20:00 Seminarraum 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Donnerstag 10.01. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 1 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Dienstag 15.01. 18:30 - 20:00 Seminarraum 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Donnerstag 17.01. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 1 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Dienstag 22.01. 18:30 - 20:00 Seminarraum 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Donnerstag 24.01. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 1 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Dienstag 29.01. 18:30 - 20:00 Seminarraum 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Donnerstag 31.01. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 1 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

The course provides an overview on the most important topics in Behavioral and Experimental Economics. Behavioral economics attempts to make economics a more relevant and powerful science of human behavior by integrating insights from psychology and the social sciences into economics. Experimental economics adapts methods developed in the natural sciences to study economic behavior. Experiments are valuable in testing to what extent the integration of insights from other disciplines into economics is necessary and fruitful.

Behavioral and Experimental Economics is a vibrant field of research in economics and sheds new light on many old and important issues in economics. The field has received wide recognition in recent years, for example by the award of the Nobel Prize in Economics 2002 to Daniel Kahneman and Vernon Smith (the Nobel Prize winners Reinhard Selten 1994, Elinor Ostrom in 2009, and Alvin Roth 2012 have also importantly contributed to Experimental Economics; the winners George Akerlof 2001 and Robert Shiller 2013 have contributed to Behavioral Economics). The field is rapidly growing. While this course can therefore not completely review every aspect of the field, it nonetheless tries to present an overview of important topics.

In particular, the course will discuss the following topics:
• Introduction: experimental method
• Individual Choice: biases & heuristics
• Market experiments & auctions
• Modeling of boundedly rationale behavior
• Fairness, social norms and public goods
• Happiness, neuroeconomics, and field experiments.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Grading will be as follows. There will be two exams:
1) Midterm exam (closed book, English, 50% of final grade). It reviews what has been discussed during the lecture so far.
2) The final exam covers the content of the entire lecture but concentrates on what has been
discussed in the second half of the course (closed book, English, 50% of final grade).

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

A good knowledge of microeconomics and game theory is required.

Prüfungsstoff

Literatur

The main references are selected journal articles to be announced in the respective lectures notes.

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Letzte Änderung: Mo 07.09.2020 15:29