This class meets once a week, on Thursdays from 12.30pm to 3.00pm in CBN 201

TA: Juan Margitic - jfm114@georgetown.edu . TA Office Hours: LAU 2nd floor Tuesdays 2-3pm. Professor Office Hours: ICC 579 Wednesdays 1.30-2.30pm, or by appointment - email me by clicking here

This class has ECON 101 or ECON 103 as a prerequisite.

There is NO TEXTBOOK for this class. You will be assigned readings as we go along.

Readings will be mostly journal articles available via Jstor. The links will work directly if you are accessing the web from any connection provided by Georgetown University. If you are accessing the web from anywhere else, you will need go via a proxy service provided by Georgetown University’s Library. The latter mode of access requires your GU Netid credentials.

Some preliminary readings are as follows. A survey of the field by Colin Camerer and George Lowenstein. A (skeptical) short book by David Levine. Another survey of the field by Matt Rabin. These readings will give you a fairly good idea of topics to be covered. Among others these will include: Endowment Effects, Hyperbolic Discounting and Herd Behavior.

Your final grade will be based on two Mid-Term Examinations (25% each) and a final exam (50%)

The schedule of examinations is as follows. First Mid-Term Examination: Thursday February 14th 2019, in class. Second Mid-Term Examination: Thursday March 21, 2019, in class. Final Examination: Thursday May 9th from 12.30pm to 2.30pm, but always double-check with the Registrar’s website.