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INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES / İKT-626 - ECONOMICS (PhD)

Code: İKT-626 Course Title: BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS Theoretical+Practice: 3+0 ECTS: 6
Year/Semester of Study 1 / Spring Semester
Level of Course 1st Cycle Degree Programme
Type of Course Optional
Department ECONOMICS (PhD)
Pre-requisities and Co-requisites None
Mode of Delivery Face to Face
Teaching Period 14 Weeks
Name of Lecturer SERDAR ÖZTÜRK (serdarozturk@nevsehir.edu.tr)
Name of Lecturer(s)
Language of Instruction Turkish
Work Placement(s) None
Objectives of the Course
To provide student get information about basic subjects of Behavioral such as behavioral decision models, welfare economies, social preferences, market and field experiment.

Learning Outcomes PO MME
The students who succeeded in this course:
LO-1 realize how to use intuitive methods when making decision. PO-4 have theoretical and empirical information to analyze how to authorities, consumers and firms effect each other’s and how to make decision.
LO-2 realize how to use intuitive methods when making decision. PO-
LO-3 test that how monetary incentives affect the market functions in the lab field PO-
PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation

Course Contents
Weekly Course Content
Week Subject Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 Introduction Explanation
2 Time Inconsistency: Theory and Applications Explanation
3 Behavioral Welfare Economics Explanation
4 Experimental and Field Evidence in Discounting and Dynamic Inconsistency Explanation
5 Behavioral Decision Models Explanation
6 Decision Making Under Uncertainty Explanation
7 Reference-dependent Preferences Explanation
8 mid-term exam
9 Biased beliefs Explanation
10 Social Perferences Explanation
11 Incentive Mechanisms and Institutions Explanation
12 Market Experiments Explanation
13 Field Experiments Explanation
14 Neuro Economics Explanation
15 General Assessment Explanation
16 final exam
Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading
1 1-C.F.CAMERER - G. LOEWENSTEIN - M. RABIN (ed.), Advances in Behavioral Economics, Princeton University Press. 2004.
2 2-Ch. A. HOLT, Markets, Games, & Strategic Behavior, Prentice Hall, 2006.
Required Course instruments and materials
lesson book

Assessment Methods
Type of Assessment Week Hours Weight(%)
mid-term exam 8 1 40
Other assessment methods
1.Oral Examination
2.Quiz
3.Laboratory exam
4.Presentation
5.Report
6.Workshop
7.Performance Project
8.Term Paper
9.Project
final exam 16 1 60

Student Work Load
Type of Work Weekly Hours Number of Weeks Work Load
Weekly Course Hours (Theoretical+Practice) 3 14 42
Outside Class
       a) Reading 8 10 80
       b) Search in internet/Library 2 11 22
       c) Performance Project 0
       d) Prepare a workshop/Presentation/Report 0
       e) Term paper/Project 0
Oral Examination 0
Quiz 0
Laboratory exam 0
Own study for mid-term exam 4 5 20
mid-term exam 1 1 1
Own study for final exam 5 5 25
final exam 1 1 1
0
0
Total work load; 191