Oct 08, 2024  
College Catalog 2024-2025 
    
College Catalog 2024-2025

PSYC 490 - Behavioral and Experimental Economics Capstone

Cross-Listed as ECON 490  
This course surveys recent developments in behavioral economics and considers applications in labor economics, macroeconomics, finance, public finance, consumer choice, and other areas.  Our goal is to draw on recent work in cognitive and evolutionary psychology to better understand human behavior and incorporate these insights into neoclassical reasoning and modeling. It is a capstone course for the Economics major. Counts as a Group E elective for the Economics major. Meets concurrently with ECON 489 . Prerequisite(s): ECON 361  and ECON 371 , each with a minimum grade of C-. Offered every year. (4 Credits)