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Behavioral Economics - Behind the Scenes
Provider: Faculty of Science

Activity no.: 5239-23-03-31There are no available seats 
Enrollment deadline: 19/05/2023
PlaceVon Langen F111
Rolighedsvej 23, 1958 Frederiksberg C
Date and time09.10.2023, at: 08:30 - 16:00
Regular seats30
Course fee1,200.00 kr.
ECTS credits5.00
Contact personCharlotte Bukdahl Jacobsen    E-mail address: cja@ifro.ku.dk
Enrolment Handling/Course OrganiserToke Reinholt Fosgaard    E-mail address: tf@ifro.ku.dk
Written languageEnglish
Teaching languageEnglish
Semester/BlockSummer
Scheme group noteShort PHD course. See program below
Exam detailsOral Presentation
Exam aidsAll aids allowed
Grading scaleCompleted/ Not completed
Course workload
Course workload categoryHours
Preparation90.00
Lectures40.00
Project work15.00
Sum145.00
Content
Over the past couple of decades, the importance of, and interest in, behavioral economics has grown massively. Behavioral economics studies how humans in reality make decisions, often irrational and surprising choices. Mapping how people make decisions allows behavioral economists to map systematic patterns of behavior and formulate theories. Such behavioral insights and theories form the basis for predicting behavior in the future and for designing real-life behavioral interventions. A prominent feature of this research approach is the possibility of establishing clear causal relations by using tightly controlled experimental tasks and randomizing participants into various experimental conditions. Such opportunities often do not exist with naturally occurring data since behavior in such situations can be prone to many simultaneous influences.
Even though research from behavioral and experimental economics results in pivotal and exciting publications, it is often not clear to people who are new to the field how such research ideas come about in the first place, how such projects get carried out in practice, and what the hidden hurdles and challenges are.
University of Copenhagen now offers a PhD course in behavioral economics focusing on getting behind the scenes of behavioral economics. The concept is that PhD students can learn from experienced researchers in the field how they got to do their behavioral economics projects and what obstacles they faced.
A long array of different behavioral economics researchers will each give a half-day lecture and engage in discussions with the students. The teaching approach in the course is very interactive and encourages dialog and feedback.

Location: Rolighedsvej 23, 1958 Frederiksberg C, auditorium: Von Lagen (New building, first floor)

Lunch and coffee throughout the course is provided.

The course cost 1200 DKK and registration is done via this site.

Learning outcome
The present PhD course intends to introduce the science of behavioral economics to PhD students from economics or any other social science background. The idea is to make an open environment for the best practice of doing behavioral economics research. This aim is met by having participants follow lectures from experts in the field. In addition, participants are also required to present their own research ideas in poster format.

A successful completion of the course counts as 5 ECTS points. These points are calculated to cover the effort of preparing for the course (reading the course material – academic papers), attending and actively engaging in the lectures and the other course activities, and finally designing and presenting a poster.

Literature
Research papers.

Teaching and learning methods
Lectures and group discussions.

Remarks
Academic qualifications:
PhD students doing research in social science (from Denmark or abroad).

Lecturers (more will be added):
Uri Gneezy – University of California San Diego
Johannes Haushofer – University of Stockholm
Imran Rasul – University College London
Severine Toussaert – University of Oxford
Maria Bigoni – University of Bologna
Marcella Veronesi - University of Verona and Technical University of Denmark
Peter Martinsson - University of Gothenburg and Technical University of Denmark
Daniele Nosenzo - University of Aarhus
Goytom Abraha Kahsay - University of Copenhagen
Toke Fosgaard – University of Copenhagen

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