Calendar & Readings

The meetings are held bi-weekly on Mondays at 20:15 GMT+3 on Zoom.

Introduction to Behavioural Economics

Oct. 30
Introductory Lecture
Slides [TBA]

Behavioural Decision-making

Nov. 13
Biases and Heuristics
Kahneman & Tversky (1974)
Standard Prospect Theory
Kahneman & Tversky (1979)
Behavioural Guessing Games
Nagel (1995)

Classical Market Experiments

[TBC]
Market Experiments
Smith (1962)
Endowment Effect and the Coase Theorem
Kahneman et al. (1990)
Bargaining and Market Behavior
Roth et al. (1991)
Market Experience
List (2003)

Altruistic Behaviour

[TBC]
Bargaining and Fairness
Forsythe et al. (1994)
Dictator-Game Meta-study
Engel (2011)
Testing GARP
Andreoni & Miller (2002)
Dictator-Game Interpretation
List (2007)

Fairness

[TBC]
Inequity Aversion
Fehr & Schmidt (1999)
Fairness Rules Pluralism
Cappelen et al. (2007)
Intuitiveness of Fairness
Cappelen et al. (2016)
Intuitiveness of Fairness
Merkel & Lohse (2019)

Cooperation & Punishment

[TBC]
Cooperation and Punishment
Fehr & Gächter (2000)
Altruistic Punishment
Fehr & Gächter (2002)
Antisocial Punishment
Herrmann et al. (2008)

Deception & Truth-telling Preferences

Discrimination

[TBC]
Labor Discrimination
Bertrand & Mullainathan (2004)
Trust Discrimination
Falk & Zehnder (2013)
Discrimination Meta-analysis
Lane (2016)

Competition & Gender

[TBC]
Gender Differences
Niederle & Vesterlund (2007)
Gender Differences
Gneezy et al. (2009)
Gender and Labor Market
Azmat & Petrongolo (2014)

Promises

[TBC]
Promises and Partnership
Charness & Dufwenberg (2006)
Keeping Promises
Vanberg (2008)
Bare Promises
Charness & Dufwenberg (2010)

Gender & Economic Behaviour

[TBC]
Gender Differences
Dreber & Johannesson (2008)
Beauty, Gender and Stereotypes
Andreoni & Petrie (2008)
Gender Differences In Preferences
Croson & Gneezy (2009)
Gender Indentity and Income
Bertrand et al. (2015)

Excuses-seeking Behaviour

[TBC]
Charity and Social Pressure
DellaVigna et al. (2012)
Excuses and Risk
Exley (2016)
Excuses In Charity
Exley (2020)

Motivated Reasoning & Motivated Beliefs

[TBC]
Motivated Beliefs Dynamics
Zimmermann (2020)
Motivated Beliefs & Social Exchange
Oprea & Yuksel (2022)
Motivated Beliefs & Climate Change
Druckman & McGrath (2019)

Self & Group Identity

[TBC]
Group Identity and Gender
Solow & Kirkwood (2002)
Group identity & Social Distance
Ahmed (2007)
Group Identity and Social Preferences
Chen & Li (2009)
Intra-/Intergroup Conflict & Punishment
Abbink et al. (2010)

(Dis)Information & Propaganda

[TBC]
Radio and the Nazis Propaganda
Adena et al. (2015)
Nazi Indoctrination
Voigtländer & Voth (2015)
Opinions As Facts
Bursztyn et al. (2023)

Internet, Social-Media & Politics

[TBC]
Media and Political Persuasion
Enikolopov et al. (2011)
Protests Matter?
Madestam et al. (2013)
Social Media and Protests
Enikolopov et al. (2020)
Internet and Social Media Effects
Zhuravskaya et al. (2020)

Methodological Papers

[TBC]
WEIRD People
Henrich et al. (2010)
Promoting an Open Research Culture
Nosek et al. (2015)
Manifesto for Reproducible Science
Munafò et al. (2017)
Statistical Significance
Benjamin et al. (2018)
Critical View of Pre-analysis Plans
Ofosu & Posner (2020)
Replication Games
Brodeur et al. (2023)