Formazione e ricerca
Attività Formative del Corso di Dottorato - 2022/2023
Advice to Young Researchers
Crediti: 4
Lingua di erogazione: English
Docente: Marco Piovesan
Behavioral and experimental economics
Crediti: 5
Lingua di erogazione: Italiano
Docente: Simone Quercia, Maria Vittoria Levati, Marco Piovesan
Development economics
Crediti: 5
Lingua di erogazione: English
Docente: Federico Perali
Finance
Crediti: 5
Lingua di erogazione: English
Docente: Cecilia Mancini
Game theory
Crediti: 5
Lingua di erogazione: Inglese
Docente: Francesco De Sinopoli
Inequality
Crediti: 5
Lingua di erogazione: English
Docente: Francesco Andreoli, Claudio Zoli
Introduction to Probability – Module II (attività formativa per la Scuola di Dottorato)
Crediti: 2
Lingua di erogazione: Italiano
Docente: Claudia Di Caterina
Introduction to Probability – Module I (Mutua da Probability) (attività formativa per la Scuola di Dottorato)
Crediti: 2
Lingua di erogazione: English
Introduction to Statistical Inference (attività formativa per la Scuola di Dottorato)
Crediti: 2
Lingua di erogazione: English
Docente: Marco Minozzo
Macroeconomics I
Crediti: 7,5
Lingua di erogazione: English
Docente: Tamara Fioroni, Alessia Campolmi
Mathematics
Crediti: 7,5
Lingua di erogazione: English
Docente: Letizia Pellegrini, Alberto Peretti
Microeconomics I
Crediti: 10,5
Lingua di erogazione: English
Docente: Simona Fiore, Claudio Zoli, Martina Menon
Political economy
Crediti: 5
Lingua di erogazione: English
Docente: Emanuele Bracco, Roberto Ricciuti
Probability
Crediti: 7,5
Lingua di erogazione: English
Docente: Marco Minozzo
Behavioral and experimental economics (2022/2023)
Referente
Crediti
5
Lingua di erogazione
Italiano
Frequenza alle lezioni
Scelta Libera
Sede
VERONA
Obiettivi di apprendimento
The course aims to provide students with appropriate tools for conducting controlled economic experiments and with concepts of behavioral economics, paying attention to alternative theories of individual choice behavior.
Prerequisiti e nozioni di base
There is no mandatory requirement. Knowledge of microeconomics, game theory and basic statistics is however appreciated.
Programma
The available evidence in psychology and economics suggests that individuals' behaviors deviate from the standard economic theory systematically. In this course, we will introduce the modern advances in behavioral economics and bounded rationality, including time-inconsistent preferences and self-control, judgment under risk and uncertainty, imperfect knowledge and social emotions, and show the economic implications of those psychologically richer models. Meanwhile, we aim to answer the question why individuals are "biased", and tend to find the link of some aspects of psychological regularities.
The course deals with methodological, theoretical, historical and practical aspects of experimental and behavioral economics.
Students are expected to read and discuss several papers that attempt to synthesize existing models in psychology and economics. Finally, we will present empirical papers drawn from a variety of fields (consumption, development economics, environmental economics, health economics, labor economics, political economy) as possible applications of these behavioral insights.
Throughout the course we will do our best to point out what seem to us like good directions for research in behavioral economics. In addition, as an incentive to get you started, the exam consists of analyzing a specific paper and proposing a possible extension.
MODULE 1 (Levati)
- Introduction. Methodology of Experimental Economics. What sort of knowledge social scientists can collect in the laboratory and what experiments can tell us about economic theories. Specific methods and techniques for conducting economic experiments, focusing on basic rules for reaching control in experiments. What is a field experiment: a taxonomy and a brief history.
- Social preferences, Inequity Aversion and Reciprocity (theory and experimental evidence).
MODULE 2 (Quercia):
- Risk preferences, reference dependence, prospect theory (theory and experimental evidence).
- Time preferences, time inconsistency, present bias and hyperbolic discounting (theory and experimental evidence and strategies to tackle self-control problems).
MODULE 3 (Piovesan)
- Behavioral Insights / Nudging theory and applications to environment, health, education, charitable giving, saving, discrimination.
Bibliografia
Modalità di verifica dell'apprendimento
Students have to read a recent paper on Behavioral and Experimental Economics (theoretical or empirical) suggested by us and write: 1) a "referee report" containing a short summary of the paper, a detailed analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the paper; 2) a proposal of a possible extension of that paper.
Attività Formative della Scuola di Dottorato - 2022/2023
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Linee guida percorso formativo
Di seguito i file che contengono le Linee guida per il percorso formativo e il regolamento per l'acquisizione dei crediti formativi (CFU) per l'Anno Accademico 2023/2024.
Documenti
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Guidelines PhD students | pdf, en, 334 KB, 19/04/24 |
Linee guida dottorandi | pdf, it, 251 KB, 19/04/24 |
Percorso formativo | pdf, it, 283 KB, 19/04/24 |
Training program | pdf, en, 358 KB, 19/04/24 |