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L'obiettivo del corso di Economia del Comportamento è quello di riesaminare alcune delle tematiche e dei modelli utilizzati nell’economia neoclassica. Molta parte della teoria economia è di tipo normativo. I modelli economici ci spiegano che cosa il consumatore dovrebbe fare, come cioè si dovrebbe comportare e non come si comporta nella realtà.
Presupposti dell’Economia neoclassica sono la “razionalità “ del consumatore ed il comportamento massimizzante di consumatori ed imprese. 

Concetto di razionalità

Fondamenti di economia delle preferenze e dell’incertezza

Economia sperimentale

Utilità attesa

Critiche al concetto di Utilità

Teorie alternative all’utilità

Teoria dei giochi

Neuroeconomics

Per i frequentanti l'esame consisterà principalmente in lavori durante il corso
Per i non frequentanti le letture obbligatorio sono quelle con l'asterisco piu gli articoli di almeno altri due punti a scelta tra quelli elencati in bibliografia

Letture e approfondimenti
Razionalità
• *Heap , Hollis, Lyons Sudgen and Weale The Theory of Choice Capitolo 1 Rationa
• *Elster Jon (1996) Rationality and Emotions Economic Journal n106 1386-972 Utilità Attesa
• *Chris Starmer “Developments in Non Expected Utility Theory : The Hant for a Descriptive Theory of Choice under Risk” Journal of Economic Literature vol 38 June 2000 pp332
• *Machina M.(1987) “ Choice under uncertainty : Problem solved and Unsolved “ Economic Perspective vol 1 n. 1 121-124 
• *Davis C e C.Holt Experimental Economics Charter I and Last

3 Economia sperimentale
• Davis C e C.Holt Experimental Economics Charter I * and Last
• Roth *On the early historiy of Experimental Economics
http://kuznets.fas.harvard.edu/~aroth/history.html
• Davis, Douglas and Holt, Charles (1993); Experimental Economics, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey: Chapter 1. 
• Falk, A. and Fehr, E. (2003); "Why labor market experiments?", Labour Economics 10, 399-406 (http://www.iew.unizh.ch/home/falk/whylabourmEx.pdf). 
• Roth, Alvin E. (1988); "Laboratory Experimentation in Economics: A Methodological Overview", Economic Journal, Vol. 98, 974-1031. 
• Smith, Vernon L. (1989); "Theory, Experiment and Economics", Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 3, No. 1, 151-169. 
• Smith, Vernon L. (1994); "Economics in the Laboratory", Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 8, No. 1, 113-131. 
• Smith, Vernon L. (1976); "Experimental Economics: Induced Value Theory", American Economic Review, Vol. 66, 274-279.

4 Invariance 
• Kahnemann D. A. Tversky (2000) “Choice Values and Frame” capitolo 1 
• “Choice Values and Frame” eds Kahnemann D. A. Tversky Cambridge University Press 2000
• Kahnemann D. A. Tversky (1979)* „ Prospect Theory Econometrica 47 263-291
• Kahnemann D. A. Tversky (2002) Rational choice and framing of decisions chapter 
• Tversky ( 1993) *Constructive Preferences and Rational Choice atti della conferenza tenuta all’icer

5 Preference Reversal 
• Holt C. (1986) Preference Reversal and the Independence Axiom American Economic Review vol 76 n 3 
• Tversky A. P. Slovic and D. Kahneman (1990)*“ The Causes of Preference Reversal “ American Economic Review vol 80 n. 1 
• Loomes G. e R. Sugden “A rationale for preference Reversal”
• American Economic Review June 1983 73, 428-32

6 Endowment Effect
• D. Kahneman J. Kneutsch and R. Thaler (1990) Experimental Tests of the Endowment Effect and the Coarse Theorem Journal of Political Economy 98 December 1325-48
• J. Kneutsch and J Sinden (1987) „ The persistence of Evaluation Disparities “Quartely Journal of Economics 99: 691-95
• J. Kneutsch (1979) The Endowment Effects and Evidence of Non Reversible Indifferent Curves American Economic Review , 79 5: 1277-84 
• *Charles R. Plott Kathryn Zeiler (2005) “The Willingness to Pay/Willingness to Accept Gap, the “Endowment Effect,” Subject
• Misconceptions and Experimental Procedures for Eliciting Valuations
• Department of the Humanities and Social Sciences Georgetown University Law CenterCalifornia Institute of Technology Washington, D.C. 20001
• Pasadena, California 91125 Mimeo

7 Alternative theory to EU 
• Chris Starmer “Developments in Non Expected Utility Theory : The Hant for a Descriptive Theory of Choice under Risk” Journal of Economic Literature vol 38 June 2000 pp332
• *\Kahnemann D. A. Tversky (1979) „ Prospect Theory Econometrica 47 263-291
• Loomes G. and B. Sudgen (1982) “Regret Theory an alternative theory of Rational Choice under Ucertainty” Economic Journal December 1982 92 805-24

8 Fairness and Games
• Charness, Gary, and Rabin, Matthew (2002); "Understanding Social Preferences with Simple Tests", The Quarterly Journal of Economics 117 (3), 817 - 869 
• Burrows P. G. Loomes THE IMPACT OF Fairness on Bargaining Behaviour Empirical Economics 1994 (19) 201-221
• Dawes M. R. Thaler Cooperation Journal of Economic PerspectiveVol “. N. £ pp 187-197
• Fehr, E., Kirchsteiger, G., Riedl, A., 1993. Does fairness prevent market clearing? An experimental investigation. Quarterly Journal of Economics 58, 437– 460.
• Armin Falk, Ernst Fehr, Christian Zehnder Fairness Perceptions and Reservation Wages—The Behavioral Effects of Minimum Wage Laws Quarterly Journal of Economics November 2006, Vol. 121, No. 4: 1347-1381. 
 
9 Economics of Gender 
• Performance in Competitive Environments: Gender Differences." Uri Gneezy, Muriel Niederle and Aldo Rustichini; Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2003, 118(3), pp. 1049-74.
• James Andreoni & Lise Vesterlund, 2001. "Which Is The Fair Sex? Gender Differences In Altruism," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, MIT Press, vol. 116(1), pages 293-312, February.
• Differences in the economic decisions of men and women:experimental evidence Catherine C. Eckel Philip J. Grossman Department of Economics Virginia Technology 
 
10 Neuro economics 
• Neuroeconomics: How Neuroscience Can Inform Economics
Colin Camerer, George Loewenstein and Drazen Prelec The Journal of Economic Literature
Vol. 43, No. 1, March 2005
• Rustichini Aldo 2005 Neuroeconomics Present and Future Games and Economic Behavioour 25 201-212 

 

Occorre aver fatto l'esame di microeconomia. La frequenza è vivamente consigliata perché parte dell'esame si svolgerà nel corso