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.

Syllabus

Lecture 1: Introduction and Overview

Lecture 2: Basic Consumer Theory

Lecture 3: Expected Utility Theory

Lecture 4: Prospect 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 13: Happiness

Lecture 14: Mental Accounting

Lecture 15: Neuroeconomics

Lecture 16: Libertarian Paternalism and Asymmetric Paternalism