Behavioral Economics Lecture Notes
Below are lecture notes from my former life when I taught Behavioral Economics. These notes were last revised in Spring 2008 for an undergraduate level class. I probably won't update them again, but feel free to use them until the papers I cite get stale.
Lecture 1: Introduction and Overview
Lecture 2: Basic Consumer Theory
Lecture 3: Expected Utility Theory
Lecture 5: Applications: Endowment Effect, Behavioral Finance
Lecture 6: Standard Intertemporal Choice
Lecture 7: Intertemporal Choice
Lecture 8: Application: Procrastination
Lecture 9: Application: Savings, Self-Control, and Willpower
Lecture 10: Heuristics and Biases
Lecture 11: Heuristics and Biases II
Lecture 12: Fairness and Social Preferences
Lecture 16: Libertarian Paternalism and Asymmetric Paternalism