Behavioral Economics

Behavioral Economics
Winter 2006

6-9pm, Wednesdays, Baxter 128

Professor Colin Camerer
camerer@hss.caltech.edu

Syllabus

"Field Experiments in Development Economics"
Esther Duflo (MIT), Dec 2005

PowerPoint presentations

Camerer, JPE 98 Field Experiment

"Field Experiments"
Glenn Harrison & John List, Dec 2004

"Social Preferences and the Response to Incentives: Evidence from Personnel Data"
Oriana Bandiera, Iwan Barankay, Imran Rasul; April 2005

"Neuroeconomics: cross-currents in research on decision-making"
Alan G. Sanfey, George Loewenstein, Samuel M. McClure & Jonathan D. Cohen; March 2006

"A Theory of Fairness in Labor Markets"
Daniel Benjamin, Nov 2005

"Neuroeconomics: cross-currents in research on decision-making"
Alan Sanfey, George Loewenstein, Samuel McClure, Jonathan Cohen, March 06

"A Model of Reference-Dependent Preferences"
Botond Koszegi, Matthew Rabin, July 2005

"The Evolution of Our Preferences: Evidence from Capuchin-Monley Trading Behavior"
Chen, Lakshminarayanan, Santos, July 19 2005

"Developments in Non-Expected Utility Theory: The Hunt for a Descriptive Theory of Choice under Risk"
Chris Starmer, June 2000

"The Hyperbolic Consumption Model: Calibration, Simulation, and Empirical Evaluation"
George-Marios Angeletos, David Laibson, Andrea Repetto, Jeremy Tobacman & Stephen Weinberg; Summer 2001

"Time Discounting and Time Preference: A Critical Review"
George Loewenstein, Ted O'Donoghue, Shane Frederick; June 2002

"Addiction and Cue-Triggered Decision Processes"
B. Douglas Bernheim, Antonio Rangel; July 2004

"Bounded Rationality in Industrial Organization"
Glenn Ellison; August 2005

"Shrouded Attributes, Consumer Myopia, and Information Suppression in Competitive Markets"
Xavier Gabaix, David Laibson; April 2005

"A Cognitive Hierarchy Model of Games"
Colin Camerer, Teck-Hua Ho, & Juin-Kuan Chong; August 2004

"Fairness and Retaliation: The Economics of Reciprocity"
Ernst Fehr & Simon Gächter

"Incorporating Fairness into Game Theory and Economics"
Matthew Rabin; Decemer 1993

"Interdependent Preferences and Reciprocity"
Joel Sobel; June 2005

"Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation"
Roland Bénabou, Jean Tirole; January 2003

"Relational Contracts and the Nature of Market Interactions"
Martin Brown, Armin Falk & Ernst Fehr; May 2004

"Labor Supply of New York City Cabdrivers: One Day at a Time"
Colin Camerer, Linda Babcock, George Loewenstein & Richard Thaler; May 1997

"Is Tomorrow Another Day? The Labor Supply of New York City Cabdrivers"
Henry Farber; 2005

"A Survey of Behavioral Finance"
Nicholas Barberis, Richard Thaler; 2003

"All that Glitters: The Effect of Attention and News on the Buying Behavior of Individual and Institutional Investors"
Brad M. Barber, Terrance Odean; January 2005

"Simple Forecasts and Paradigm Shifts"
Harrison Hong, Jeremy Stein. Jialin Yu; June 2005

"Behavioral Public Economics: Welfare and Policy Analysis with Non-Standard Decision Makers"
B. Douglas Bernheim, Antonio Rangel; July 2005

"Physiological utility theory and the neuroeconomics of choice"
Paul W. Glimcher, Michael C. Dorris, Hannah M. Bayer; June 2004

"Naturally reconstructing expected utility"
Brian Knutson, Richard Peterson; June 2003

"Separate Neural Systems Value Immediate and Delayed Monetary Rewards"
Samuel M. McClure, David I. Laibson, George Loewenstein, Jonathan D. Cohen; October 2004

Advances in Behavioral Economics
Colin Camerer, George Loewenstein, Matthew Rabin (Editors), Introduction

"Constructed" preferences (powerpoint)

Intertemporal Choice (powerpoint)

Homework

Behavioral Game Theory (slides)

Social Preferences (powerpoint)

Discussion of Behavioral Economics"
Ariel Rubinstein; August 2005

"The Case for Mindless Economics"
Faruk Gul, Wolfgang Pesendorfer; November 2005

"Limited Attention as the Scarce Resource in an Information-rich Economy"
Josef Falkinger; March 2005

"The Neural Basis of Financial Risk Taking"
Camelia Kuhnen, Brian Knutson; September 2005

"Failure to Detect Mismatches Between Intention and Outcome in a Simple Decision Task"
Petter Johansson, Lars Hall, Sverker Sikström, Andreas Olson; October 2005

Chapter in M. Altman (Ed.) Handbook of Behavioral Economics, in press 2006

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