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ADEC 7810 Empirical Behavioral Economics

Behavioral economics combines insights from economics and the cognitive sciences to study how human beings make decisions in various contexts. This course will introduce you to the key concepts in this field and give you the tools you need to start designing your own experiments for business or policy applications. Beginning from the standard rational model, we first study the decision-maker in isolation and then move on to the decision-maker in strategic settings. As we go, we will learn how to use simple theoretical models to describe and predict behavior, as well as analyze data from canonical published experiments using R. We will then see how firms and policy makers can design interventions help people make better decisions.

Course overview

Department
Advancing Studies
School
ADV
Credits
3
Level
Graduate
Offered
Periodically in the Fall

Catalog details

Prerequisites
ADEC7201 and ADEC7301/ADAN7301 or ADEC7310/ADAN7309 or ADAN7310/ADEC7309 and ADEC7320 or ADAN7320

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Requirements fulfilled

No source-backed degree requirement is attached to this course yet.

Official evaluation summary

4.45 / 5

Based on 66 aggregate responses from BC Avalanche/Blue evaluations.

Data freshness

Course and evaluation data last updated 2026-08-02. Source details and limitations are documented in Data Sources and Methodology.

Instructors

  • Lawrence Degeest
    Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Summer 2023, Summer 2022, Midterm Fall 2022, Fall 2021 · Official rating 4.63/5

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