The Foundations of Behavioral Economic Analysis
, by Dhami, SanjitNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780198715535 | 0198715536
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 1/3/2017
Sanjit Dhami, Professor of Economics, University of Leicester
Sanjit Dhami is Professor of Economics at the University of Leicester. He studied at the Delhi School of Economics and the University of Toronto for his Masters, MPhil, and PhD degrees in economics. He has previously taught at the Universities of Toronto, Essex, and Newcastle. His research has mainly focused on behavioral economic theory and its applications. He has published on the axiomatic foundations of the various components of prospect theory, behavioral political economy using other-regarding preferences, behavioral time preferences, foundations of behavioral game theory, and applications in tax evasion, stochastic dominance concepts under other-regarding preferences, and in behavioral law and economics.
Preface
Introduction
Part I: Behavioral Economics of Risk, Uncertainty, and Ambiguity
Introduction to Part I
1. The Evidence on Human Choice under Risk and Uncertainty
2. Behavioral Models of Decision Making
3. Applications of Behavioral Decision Theory
4. Human Behavior Under Ambiguity
Part II: Other-Regarding Preferences
Introduction to Part II
5. The Evidence on Human Sociality
6. Models of Other-Regarding Preferences
7. Human Morality and Social Identity
8. Incentives and Other-Regarding Preferences
Exercises
Part III: Behavioral Time Discounting
Introduction to Part III
9. The Evidence on Temporal Human Choice
10. Behavioral Models of Time Discounting
11. Applications of Present Biased Preferences
Exercises
Part IV: Behavioral Game Theory
Introduction to Part IV
12. The Evidence on Strategic Human Choice
13. Models of Behavioral Game Theory
Exercises
Part V: Behavioral Models of Learning
Introduction to Part V
14. Evolutionary Game Theory
15. Models of Learning
16. Stochastic Social Dynamics
Appendices and Exercises
Part VI: Emotions
Introduction to Part VI
17. Emotions and Human Behavior
18. Interaction Between Emotions and Cognition
Exercises
Part VII: Bounded Rationality
Introduction to Part VII
19. Judgment Heuristics
20. Mental Accounting
21. Bounded Rationality in Financial Markets
Exercises
Part VIII: Behavioral Welfare Economics
Introduction to Part VIII
22. Fixing Basic Ideas
23. Soft Paternalism
24. Regulation Under Imperfect Self-Information
25. Choice and Non-Choice Data: What is the Scope of Economics?
26. Choice-Based Behavioral Welfare Economics
27. Revealed Preference Under Limited Attention
28. The Contractarian Approach
Exercises
Part IX: Neuroeconomics
Introduction to Part IX
29. A Brief Introduction to the Brain
30. An Introduction to Neuroeconomic Techniques
31. The Neuroeconomics of Risky Decisions
32. The Neuroeconomics of Social Preferences
33. The Neuroeconomics of Time Preferences
34. The Neuroeconomics of Strategic Interaction
35. Pharmacoeconomics: An Application to Social Effects of Oxytocin
Appendix on Game Theory
Introduction
Normal form games
A basic taxonomy of some normal form games
Two person zero sum games
Selection criteria among Nash equilibria: Payoff dominance and Risk Dominance
Extensive form games
Games of incomplete information
Correlated equilibrium
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