Office hours: Wednesdays 2:00-3:00 or by
appointment, in Economics 319
Lectures: Mondays and
Wednesdays,
11:00-12:20 in Economics 210.
Organization: The first half (approximately)
will cover standard topics in the traditional theory of decisions. The
second half will cover topics in behavioral decision theory. Instead of
a final exam there will be two take-home mini-exams, one for each half.
You must work on these individually, without consulting anyone but me.
The first mini-exam will be posted on the website at 4 p.m. Wednesday,
February 7, and due in the course mailbox in Economics Student Services
by 4 p.m. Friday, February 9. The second mini-exam will be posted at 4
p.m. Wednesday, March 14, and due in the course mailbox by 4 p.m.
Friday, March 16 (the last day of classes). The 48-hour time limits are
intended as a humanitarian gesture, and should not be binding. The
dates are firm except for extreme unforeseeable events, in which case
exceptions must be requested as soon as possible. I will also post
optional problem sets, which should be good practice for the exams,
before each segment. The second exam will include a flexible essay
question on behavioral decision theory, which will be posted by the
second half. This question is meant to help you think about how to use
behavioral decision theory to do economics; its choices give you some
freedom to make it about the kind of economics you are interested in.
