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Lehrveranstaltungen

Behavioral Economics (Vorlesung)

Dozent/in: Mario Mechtel

Termin:
wöchentlich | Mittwoch | 08:30 - 10:00 | 15.10.2018 - 01.02.2019 | C 3.120 Seminarraum

Inhalt: Based on numerous empirical and experimental insights, the field of behavioral economics emerged within the last decades and became an important part of mainstream economic research. The course will cover fundamental topics from this field. We will analyze the effects of reference points for behavior, how individuals make intertemporal choices, the role of social preferences (e.g., altruism, fairness, envy) for decision-making, and how social groups individuals identify with affect behavior. Additionally, we will cover well-known heuristics and biases (e.g., confirmation bias, overconfidence). We will also analyze strategic interaction using behavioral game theory. At the end, we will cover selected applications (e.g., labor market, happiness research, nudging). Behavioral economics embeds insights from disciplines such as psychology and sociology, but aims at building formal models of economic behavior to generate testable predictions. In this course, we will stick to basic principles of neoclassical reasoning and modeling, but we will depart in some dimensions and analyze situations in which individuals have limited willpower, rationality, and self-interest (in some sense). We will, subsequently, compare behavioral approaches and results with those from standard neoclassical economics. Contents 1. Introduction 2. Prospect Theory 3. Intertemporal Choices 4. Social Preferences 5. Social Identity 6. Behavioral Game Theory 7. Heuristics and Biases 8. Selected Applications

empirical macroeconomics (Vorlesung/Übung)

Dozent/in: Christoph Wegener

Termin:
wöchentlich | Dienstag | 14:00 - 16:15 | 16.10.2018 - 29.01.2019 | C 16.129 Seminarraum

Inhalt: Economic theory suggests relationships but virtually never suggests clear quantitative magnitudes of causal effects. The goal of many empirical studies in economics is to determine whether a change in one variable causes a change in another variable. For example, "How does another year of education change earnings?" or "What is the effect on output growth of a 1 percentage point increase in interest rates by the ECB?" Furthermore, economic theory also predicts a certain behavior of the data. We focus on drawing inference about this behavior. First of all, we study some basic tools rooted in the field of time series econometrics in order to apply them. For example, we test against stationarity of interest rate spreads in the EMU or we test for unit roots in oil prices.

Grundlagen der Finanzwissenschaft (Vorlesung)

Dozent/in: Mario Mechtel

Termin:
wöchentlich | Dienstag | 10:15 - 11:45 | 15.10.2018 - 01.02.2019 | C 14.204 Seminarraum

Inhalt: Die Veranstaltung beschäftigt sich mit der Analyse staatlicher Aktivitäten. Nach einem Überblick über verschiedene Indikatoren staatlicher Aktivität und der Diskussion der Unterschiede zwischen normativer und positiver Analyse folgt die Untersuchung von Begründungen staatlicher Markteingriffe und Umverteilung. Weiterhin werden Grundlagen und Wirkungen von Besteuerung thematisiert und die Grundzüge der Politischen Ökonomik dargelegt. Im abschließenden Kapitel werden Sozialversicherungssysteme analysiert. Gliederung 1. Einführung 2. Staatliche Markteingriffe und Umverteilung 3. Besteuerung und öffentliche Verschuldung 4. Politische Ökonomik 5. Sozialversicherungen