ECO-4450 - Economic Failures & Financial Crises - Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen - Dr Toche
ECO-4450 - Economic Failures & Financial Crises - Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen - Dr Toche
GENERAL
This course is intended for students of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, offered in Shenzhen. The aim of this course is to introduce students to the economics of failure, situations where markets fail, where irrationality prevails, or where standard economic models fall short. Material for the course will be uploaded here as it becomes available.
[PDF] Syllabus
[PDF] References
SCHEDULE
This course was completed in August 2018.
LECTURES
I. Anomalies & Financial Bubbles
The Great Depression
Financial Crises
Securitization
Bubbles
Anomalies
II. Failures of Judgement
Game Contests
Poor Thinking & Bad Judgement
The Prisoner's Dilemma
Paradoxes in Probability
III. Failures of Markets
Public Goods
Externalities
Unemployment