ECON 212C
Behavioral Decision-Making
Economics · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Overview of popular models of decision-making. Topics include foundations of rational choice under risk, uncertainty, and time; behavioral models of non-expected utility; ambiguity aversion; intertemporal preferences including general discounting and Epstein-Zin preferences; stochastic choice including logit, random utility, and other behavioral models of random choice. Part of economic theory sequence for second-year PhD students, with material relevant in other fields of economics such as macroeconomics, trade, industrial organization, and development, and other disciplines such as business, psychology, philosophy, political science, computer science, and mathematics.
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Requisites
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Requisite: courses 201A, 201B, 201C, or equivalents.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
ECON 212C
- ECON 201AMicroeconomics: Theory of Firm and Consumer
- ECON 201BMicroeconomics: Basic Concepts and Techniques of Noncooperative Game Theory and Information Economics
- ECON 201CMicroeconomics: Game Theory with Asymmetric Information and Applications
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