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| ECN304 |
Behavioral and Experimental Economics |
| Course responsible |
Stein Terje Holden |
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| Number of credits allocated |
10.0 |
| Language |
English |
| Limits for class size |
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| Semester/trimester |
| August block |
Autumn parallel |
January block |
Spring parallel |
June block |
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X |
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| Colour explanation: Red/yellow = teaching periods. The red period indicates when the teaching starts. |
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| Teachers |
Yohei Mitani |
| Type of course |
Lectures 2 hours per week, exercises 0-2 hours per week |
| Compulsory educational activities |
Compulsory exercises |
| Prerequisites |
Econometrics (ECN201), Statistics (STAT100), Micro (ECN311) |
| Exam |
S |
| Assessment methods |
Written examination, 3.5 hours. |
| Grading |
A-F |
| Examination aids |
A1: not calculator, no other aids. |
| Nominal workload |
300 hours |
| Course frequency |
Annually |
| Comment on frequency |
- |
| Teaching methods |
Lectures and exercises |
| Teaching support |
Students will have access to detailed information about the course through Fronter |
| Examiner |
External examiner will control the quality of syllabus, questions for the final examination, and principles for the assessment of the examination answers. |
| Entrance requirements |
Minimum requirements for entrance to higher education in Norway (generell studiekompetanse)
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| Objective of course |
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Get an overview of important lessons in behavioral economics including recent contributions in the literature, an overview of research methods in experimental behavioral economics including laboratory and field experiments |
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| Course contents |
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| Topics in behavioral economics: Rational vs. irrational behavior, uncertainty and expected utility, prospect theory, time preferences and discounting, risk preferences and responses to risk, altruism, fairness, trust. Topics in experimental design: Basic design issues, implementation of laboratory experiments, field experiments |
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| Syllabus |
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| A detailed list of readings will be presented at the beginning of the course. |
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| Last updated |
2012-04-12 |
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