ECON 4670

Applications of Behavioral Economics

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Course information provided by the 2026-2027 Catalog.

Behavioral economics starts by developing models of decision making and investigating the implications of those models for individuals and household outcomes (which is the focus of ECON 4660). This course will focus on the next step: What are the implications of those models for market outcomes and for the role of government interventions to improve market outcomes? We will study applications from industrial organization and health economics, and applications from the new subfield of behavioral public economics that studies how to think about government policy when individuals and households may not be behaving as economists typically assume.

Prerequisites ECON 3030.

Enrollment Priority Recommended prerequisites: ECON 3120 or ECON 3140, and ECON 4660.

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