Behavioral Economics and Finance
As taught in: Spring 2004
Instructors:
Prof. Xavier Gabaix
MIT Course Number:
14.127
Level:
Graduate
Course Features
Course Description
This course surveys research which incorporates psychological evidence into economics. Topics include: prospect theory, biases in probabilistic judgment, self-control and mental accounting with implications for consumption and savings, fairness, altruism, and public goods contributions, financial market anomalies and theories, impact of markets, learning, and incentives, and memory, attention, categorization, and the thinking process.
*Some translations represent previous versions of courses.


