This is the first definitive introduction to behavioral economics
aimed at advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Authoritative, cutting edge, yet accessible, it guides the reader
through theory and evidence, providing engaging and relevant
applications throughout. It is divided into nine parts and 24
chapters: Part I is on behavioral economics of risk, uncertainty, and
ambiguity. The evidence against expected utility theory is examined,
and the behavioral response is outlined; the best empirically
supported theory is prospect theory. Part II considers other-regarding
preferences. The evidence from experimental games on human sociality
is given, followed by models and applications of inequity aversion,
intentions based reciprocity, conditional cooperation, human virtues,
and social identity. Part III is on time discounting. It considers the
evidence against the exponential discounted utility model and
describes several behavioral models such as hyperbolic discounting,
attribute based models and the reference time theory. Part IV
describes the evidence on classical game theory and considers several
models of behavioral game theory, including level-k and cognitive
hierarchy models, quantal response equilibrium, and psychological game
theory. Part V considers behavioral models of learning that include
evolutionary game theory, classical models of learning, experience
weighted attraction model, learning direction theory, and stochastic
social dynamics. Part VI studies the role of emotions; among other
topics it considers projection bias, temptation preferences, happiness
economics, and interaction between emotions and cognition. Part VII
considers bounded rationality. The three main topics considered are
judgment heuristics and biases, mental accounting, and behavioral
finance. Part VIII considers behavioral welfare economics; the main
topics are soft paternalism, and choice-based measures of welfare.
Finally, Part IX gives an abbreviated taster course in neuroeconomics.
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ISBN
9780191024863
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Oxford University Press Academic UK
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Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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