ECON 212CBehavioral 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.
S/U or letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
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
3 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 3 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.