Ph.D. in Cognitive Sciences University of Siena

 Module : Cognitive Economics

Cognitive Economics: An Introduction
 

Alessandro Innocenti
innocenti@unisi.it

Outline
 

• Laboratory methods

 

• Conceptions of rationality

 

• Choice anomalies

 

• Cognitive economics

 

• Neuroeconomics

SLIDES 2008-2009   

Main references

• D. Friedman, S. Sunder, Experimental methods. A primer for economists, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994

• G. Loewenstein, S. Rick, J. D. Cohen, Neuroeconomics,  Annual Review of Psychology, 2008, 59:647–72 (available online at http://psych.annualreviews.org)

Other references

• Camerer, Colin - Loewenstein, George “Behavioral Economics: Past, Present and Future”, 2002

• Camerer, Colin - Loewenstein, George- Prelec, Drazen, “Neuroeconomics: How Neuroeconomics can inform economics”, 200

• Camerer, Colin F. Behavioral Game Theory. Experiments in Strategic Interaction, New York and Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2003.

• Davis, Douglas D. -  Holt, Charles A. Experimental Economics, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1993.

• Friedman, Daniel - Cassar, Alessandra. Economics Lab. An intensive course in experimental economics, Routledge, London and New York, 2004.

• Jones, Martin – Sudgen, Robert. “Positive confirmation bias in the acquisition of information”,Theory and Decision, 50, 2001, 59-99

• Kagel, John H. - Roth, Alvin E. The Handbook of Experimental Economics, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1997.

• Kahneman, Daniel - Tversky, Amos. “Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision under Risk”, Econometrica, 47, 1979, 263- 91

• Kosfeld, Michael, Markus Heinrichs, Paul J. Zak, Urs Fischbacher & Ernst Fehr “Oxytocin increases trust in humans“ Nature 2005

• McCabe, Kevin, Daniel Houser, Lee Ryan, Vernon Smith, and Theodore Trouard. ”A functional imaging study of cooperation in two-person reciprocal exchange” Proc. Nat. Ac. Sci. USA  2001

• Smith, Vernon. “Economics in the Laboratory”, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 8, 1994, 113-131.