One of the main goals of the course is to provide students a wide knowledge of theories to explain individual behaviour, as well as hands-on experience on how to design and carry out their own experiments and analyze experimental data to test hypotheses. The tools provided in this course are transferable outside the standard research practice.
The aim of this course is to introduce students to the recent literature in behavioural economics, with a specific attention on how social preferences, norms and individual biases influence choices both at consumer and firm level. The lectures will explore how psychology and economics have been integrated to better understand how people respond to risk, make choices, and interact with others.
The second module will focus on a list of topics in psychology of economics with the use of well known examples of experiments in economics.
Lectures will take the form of frontal lectures in which students will be exposed to theories and experimental evidence. Students will be often involved in classroom experiments played via the platform https://classex.de/ with immediate feedback and discussion of the choices made.
Written exam
A written final exam will be used to evaluate the skills and the critical abilities developed by the students as regards to the theories and notion explained during lectures. The exam will last 90 minutes, and will be composed of open questions.