Behavioral Economics

Summer Term 2008

Tutorial Webpage

General Information

Problem Sets

Downloads

 

 

 

 

NEWS

(Updated October 26)

 

 

 

Teaching Assistant:               Fabian Herweg

Contact:                                         Email:                        fherweg<at>uni-bonn.de

                                                           Office:                        Lenné Str. 43, first floor

                                                           Office Hour:   Monday, 13:00-14:00

                                                           ! Please send an email in advance if you like to come to the office hours !

 

 

 

 

 

General Information

 

The tutorials alternate with lectures. At the dates listed in the table below there will be a tutorial instead of a lecture (scheduled). The aim of the tutorial is to make the students familiar with the theoretical concepts introduced in the lecture. The typical exercise introduces a behavioural concept into a standard economic problem, like optimal consumption subject to a budget constraint. Ideally, the exercises highlight how introducing concepts of behavioural economics in standard models can help to “explain” observed behaviour.

 

 

 

 

Date

Topic

Problem Set

April, 14 (Mon.)

Inadequacies of Standard Theory

Problem Set 1

Solution to Problem Set 1

April, 28 (Mon.)

Loss Aversion

Problem Set 2

Solution to Problem Set 2

May, 21 (Wed.)

Loss Aversion (Kőszegi and Rabin)

Problem Set 3

Solution to Problem Set 3

June, 9 (Mon.)

Fairness & Social Preferences

Problem Set 4

Solution to Problem Set 4

June, 25 (Wed.)

Fairness & Social Preferences

Problem Set 5

Solution to Problem Set 5

July, 2 (Wed.)

Hyperbolic Discounting

Problem Set 6

July, 14 (Mon.)

Hyperbolic Discounting

Problem Set 7

Solution to Problem Set 7

July, 16 (Wed.)

Applications

 

July, 29 (Tue)

What have you learned?

Exam July

 

                       

Last Year’s Final Exams:

Exam July 2007

Exam October 2007

Motivation:

Questionnaire (I)

Questionnaire (II)

Evaluation of the Questionnaires