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

[Handout] [Slides]

Financial Crises

[Handout] [Slides]

Securitization

[Handout] [Slides]

Bubbles

[Handout] [Slides]

Anomalies

[Handout] [Slides]


II. Failures of Judgement

Game Contests

[Handout] [Slides]

Poor Thinking & Bad Judgement

[Handout] [Slides]

The Prisoner's Dilemma

[Handout] [Slides]

Paradoxes in Probability

[Handout] [Slides]


III. Failures of Markets

Public Goods

[Handout] [Slides]

Externalities

[Handout] [Slides]

Unemployment

[Handout] [Slides]