Course description

The FEBT Summer School Behavioural economics focuses on developing analytical and critical skills relevant to developing a holistic perspective on behavioral economics. It specializes in evaluating current trends and prospects in the field of behavioral economics, developing a holistic perspective on evolution, cultural differences, and challenges of cooperation, as well as developing a basic framework for analyzing behavioral mechanisms of economic decision-making, while accounting for psychological and cultural aspects in this process. The experts in the field provide the scientific and practical knowledge of theories and methods used in behavioural economics.

 

Learning oututcomes

• Evaluate the current trends and future prospects in the field of behavioural economics

• Develop a holistic perspective on evolution, cultural differences and challenges of cooperation

• Develop basic framework for analysing behavioural mechanisms of economic decision making

• Account for  psychological and cultural aspects in decision-making

 

Target audience

• Graduate students in economics (or in social sciences, technical sciences or science related fields) who intend to round out their knowledge in the field and use it in the proces of preparing dissertations.
• Holders of undergraduate degrees or students in the last year of ther studies in economics or the social sciences who wish to study the field of behavioural economics.
• Researchers and professionals working in the field.

 

Credits transfers (ECTS)

This FEBT Summer school program offers participants the possibility of going through evaluation process for the purspose of requesting official credit transfers (ECTS).

• Evaluation process

Participants who wish to acquire 6 ECTS will be evaluated based on the regular and active course attendance and  taking an exam in the form of take-home essay.

The goal of the essay is to show the necessary ability to critically think about the challenges of behavioural economics and the essay should have approximately 10.000 words.

 

Certificate of attendance

Participants not interested in credit transfer will instead receive the Certificate of Attendence, stating the course completed. These students will be neither evaluated nor graded.

 

Course fee

The price of course includes lecture and practical hours. More details about fees find here!

 

Course outline

Week of July 3 - 7, 2023 (Face-to-face)

Face-to-face lecture themes	Lecturer	Hours
Behavioural economics: current trends and future prospects	Silvia Golem  (University of Split)	2
Behavioural macroeconomics	Lena Malešević Perović (University of Split)	4
Cultural differences and economic behaviour	Josipa Višić (University of Split)	2
Essay writing (for ECTS)*	Lena Malešević Perović (University of Split)	1
Behavioural economics (mental accounting, nudging, prospect theory, time discounting, self-control, self-signalling)	Dražen Prelec (MIT)	4
Evolutionary Dynamics of Reputations and Cooperation	Fernando P. Santos (University of Amsterdam)	4
Dynamics of Polarization in Online Social Networks	Fernando P. Santos (University of Amsterdam)	1
Psychology of judgment and decision-making	Nicolao Bonini (University of Trento)	2
The relevance of norms and image concerns in economic behaviour	Zvonimir Bašić (Max Planck Institute)	4
Intelligence and personality in strategic interactions	Andis Sofianos (University of Durham)	5
Neuroeconomics	Alessia Dorigoni (University of Trento)	4
Freedom of choice in economic games	Ivan Romić (Kobe University)	4
New theories of decision under uncertainty and their applications to health	Han Bleichrodt (Erasmus University)	4
Cooperation and conflict between groups	Angelo Romano (Leiden University)	2
Searching and meta-analyzing experimental research on cooperation using the Cooperation Databank	Giuliana Spadaro (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)	2
* Essay writing includes 2 (+3) hours of lectures (workshop) and 105 individual hours of participants who want to join the Summer School for the purposes of requesting official credit transfers of 6 ECTS