David Laibson

Behavioral Camp - Summer 2012

The Russell Sage Foundation will sponsor the tenth Summer Institute in Behavioral Economics in Waterville Valley, New Hampshire, from July 1 to 13, 2012. 

Student Materials:

Rooming list 2012

Informational letter from Professors Laibson & Rabin

Readings list

Final Schedule (Updated 7/10)

Office Hours - Week 1

Office Hours - Week 2

Lectures:

David (Lecture 1): Welcome & Methods to Behavioral Economics

David (Lecture 2): Time Preference Theory

David (Lecture 3): Empirical Evidence on Discounting

David (Lecture 4): Introduction to Neuro-Economics

David (Lecture 5): Household Finance

David (Lecture 6): Behavioral Macroeconomics

David (Lecture 7): Behavioral Agents in Market Equilibrium

David (Lecture 8): Going Forth and Doing Research

Matthew (Lecture 1): Introduction

Matthew (Lectures 2-4): Preferences

Matthew (Lectures 5-7): Limited Rationality

Matthew (Lecture 8): Rational and Irrational Social Learning

George (Lecture 1): Foundations of Preferences and Predictions about Preferences

George (Lecture 2): Empirical Research on Health Incentives

Colin (Lecture 1): Measuring Cognitive & Neural Activity During Choice

Colin (Lecture 2): Laboratory and Field Evidence of Limited Strategic Thinking

Ulrike (Lecture 1): Behavioral Corporate Finance

Ulrike (Lecture 2): Investor Sentiment

Sendhil (Lecture 1): Behavioral Development & Poverty Economics

Sendhil (Lecture 2): Psychology and Public Finance

Stefano (Lecture 1): Social Preferences in the Field

Stefano (Lecture 2): Structural Behavioral Economics

Dick (Lecture 1): Libertarian Paternalism

Dick (Lecture 2): The State of Behavioral Economics