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Course Info

  • Course Number / Code:
  • 14.127 (Spring 2004) 
  • Course Title:
  • Behavioral Economics and Finance 
  • Course Level:
  • Graduate 
  • Offered by :
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    Massachusetts, United States  
  • Department:
  • Economics 
  • Course Instructor(s):
  • Prof. Xavier Gabaix 
  • Course Introduction:
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  • 14.127 Behavioral Economics and Finance



    Spring 2004




    Course Highlights


    This course site features a complete set of lecture notes.


    Course Description


    This course surveys research which incorporates psychological evidence into economics. Topics include: prospect theory, biases in probabilistic judgment, self-control and mental accounting with implications for consumption and savings, fairness, altruism, and public goods contributions, financial market anomalies and theories, impact of markets, learning, and incentives, and memory, attention, categorization, and the thinking process.

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