Lectures & Courses

Welche frei verfügbaren Kurse und Vortragsreihen zu den Themen Behavioral Economics und Behavioral Finance gibt es im Netz? Auf dieser Seite entsteht eine Sammlung der besten Materialien. Wer sich persönlich von den wahren Größen der Verhaltensökonomie wie Daniel Kahneman, Richard Thaler oder Robert J. Shiller in deren Spezialgebiete einführen lassen möchte, wird hier fündig. Eingeordnet sind die Kurse und Vorträge in folgende Kategorien:

Behavioral Economics
Behavioral Finance
Experimental Economics
Neuroökonomie
Neuroscience
Psychologie & Philosophie

Behavioral Economics

A Short Course In Behavioral Economics

Datum:Juli 2008
Lecturers: Richard Thaler, Daniel Kahneman & Sendhil Mullainathan
Veranstalter: Edge.org
Kursmaterial: Vortrag als Text + Video Highlights der Vorträge
Inhalt:
Einführung: Daniel Kahneman
Class 1: Libertarian Paternalism: Why it is impossible not to nugde
Class 2: Improving choices with machine readable disclosure
Class 3: The psychology of scarcity
Class 4: Two big things happening in psychology today
Class 5: The irony of poverty
Class 6: Putting Psychology into Behavioral Economics

Behavioral Finance

Yale Econ 252 - Financial Markets

Datum: Frühjahr 2008
Lecturer: Professor Robert J. Shiller
Kursbeschreibung: Financial institutions are a pillar of civilized society, supporting people in their productive ventures and managing the economic risks they take on. The workings of these institutions are important to comprehend if we are to predict their actions today and their evolution in the coming information age. The course strives to offer understanding of the theory of finance and its relation to the history, strengths and imperfections of such institutions as banking, insurance, securities, futures, and other derivatives markets, and the future of these institutions over the next century.
Kursinhalt:
  1. Finance & Insurance as Powerful Forces in Our Economy & Society
  2. The Universal Principle of Risk Management:
      Pooling and the Hedging of Risks
  3. Technology and Invention in Finance
  4. Portfolio Diversification and Supporting Financial Institutions
      (CAPM Model)
  5. Insurance: The Archetypal Risk Management Institution
  6. Efficient Markets vs. Excess Volatility
  7. Behavioral Finance: The Role of Psychology (Highlight!)
  8. Human Foibles, Fraud, Manipulation, and Regulation
  9. Guest Lecture by David Swensen
10. Debt Markets: Term Structure
11. Stocks
12. Real Estate Finance and Its Vulnerability to Crisis
13. Banking: Successes and Failures
14. Guest Lecture by Andrew Redleaf
15. Guest Lecture by Carl Icahn
16. The Evolution and Perfection of Monetary Policy
17. Investment Banking and Secondary Markets
18. Professional Money Managers and Their Influence
19. Brokerage, ECNs, etc.
20. Guest Lecture by Stephen Schwarzman
21. Forwards and Futures
22. Stock Index, Oil and Other Futures Markets
23. Options Markets
24. Making It Work for Real People: The Democratization of Finance
25. Learning from and Responding to Financial Crisis, Part I
      (Guest Lecture by Lawrence Summers)
26. Learning from and Responding to Financial Crisis, Part II
      (Guest Lecture by Lawrence Summers)

Experimental Economics

Economics 2040 : Experimental Economics

Datum:Spring 2009-2010
Lecturer: Alvin E. Roth
Veranstalter: Harvard Business School

Kursbeschreibung: 

An introduction to experimental economics, and some of the major subject areas that have been addressed by laboratory experiments. We concentrate on series of experiments, to see how experiments build on one another.

Neuroökonomie

Neuroscience

A Short Course in Neuroscience: Fundamentals of the Brain and Mind

Datum: Juni 2003
Lecturers: diverse
Veranstalter: MIT World™
Kursinhalt:
1. The Brain and Mind
2. Architecture of the Brain
3. Neurobiology of Memory: How Do We Acquire, Consolidate and Recall Memory
4. Cognitive Control: Understanding the Brain's Executive
5. The Changing Brain
6. Vision: Challenges and Prospects
7. Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language

Psychologie & Philosophie

A Short Course On Thinking About Thinking

Datum: Juli 2007
Lecturer: Daniel Kahneman
Veranstalter: Edge.org
Kursmaterial: Vortrag als Text + Video Highlights des Vortrags
Video Highlights
Session 1
Session 2
Session 3
Session 4
Session 5
Session 6

Yale PSYC 110 -Introduction to Psychology

Datum: Frühjahr 2007
Lecturer: Professor Paul Bloom
Kursbeschreibung: What do your dreams mean? Do men and women differ in the nature and intensity of their sexual desires? Can apes learn sign language? Why can’t we tickle ourselves? This course tries to answer these questions and many others, providing a comprehensive overview of the scientific study of thought and behavior. It explores topics such as perception, communication, learning, memory, decision-making, religion, persuasion, love, lust, hunger, art, fiction, and dreams. We will look at how these aspects of the mind develop in children, how they differ across people, how they are wired-up in the brain, and how they break down due to illness and injury.
Kursinhalt:

1. Introduction

2. Foundations: This Is Your Brain

3. Foundations: Freud

4. Foundations: Skinner

5. What Is It Like to Be a Baby: The Development of Thought

6. How Do We Communicate?: Language in the Brain, Mouth and the Hands

7. Conscious of the Present; Conscious of the Past: Language (cont.); Vision and Memory

8. Conscious of the Present; Conscious of the Past: Vision and Memory (cont.)

9. Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Love (Guest Lecture by Professor Peter Salovey)

10. Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Evolution and Rationality

11. Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Emotions, Part I

12. Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Emotions, Part II

Brain and Perception (Guest Lecture by Professor Marvin Chun)

13. Why Are People Different?: Differences

14. What Motivates Us: Sex

The Psychology, Biology, and Politics of Food (Guest Lecture by Professor Kelly Brownell)

15. A Person in the World of People: Morality

16. A Person in the World of People: Self and Other, Part I

17. A Person in the World of People: Self and Other, Part II; Some Mysteries: Sleep, Dreams, and Laughter

18. What Happens When Things Go Wrong: Mental Illness, Part I (Guest Lecture by Professor Susan Nolen-Hoeksema)

19. What Happens When Things Go Wrong: Mental Illness, Part II

20. The Good Life: Happiness

 

Discovering Psychology

Lecturer: Philip G. Zimbardo, Professor of Psychology at Stanford University
Veranstalter: Learner.org
Kursbeschreibung:

The Discovering Psychology telecourse and educational video series first premiered in 1990 as a visual resource for teaching introductory psychology. The 26 video programs review the history of the field, including the work of early and contemporary theorists, practitioners, and researchers, illustrating their work with footage of classic experiments and modern studies. They tell the story of psychology through demonstrations, classic experiments and simulations, current research, documentary footage, and computer animation all based on extensive investigation and superior scholarship.

Kursmaterial: Videos + Zusatzmaterial wie Tests, Essays, Interviews, usw.
Inhalt:
  1. Past, Present and Promise (--> direkt zum Video)
  2. Understanding Research (--> direkt zum Video)
  3. The Behaving Brain (--> direkt zum Video)
  4. The Responsive Brain (--> direkt zum Video)
  5. The Developing Child (--> direkt zum Video)
  6. Language Development (--> direkt zum Video)
  7. Sensation and Perception (--> direkt zum Video)
  8. Learning (--> direkt zum Video)
  9. Remembering and Forgetting (--> direkt zum Video)
10. Cognitive Processes (--> direkt zum Video)
11. Judgement and Decision Making (--> direkt zum Video)
12. Motivation and Emotion (--> direkt zum Video)
13. The Mind Awake and Asleep (--> direkt zum Video)
14. The Mind Hidden and Divided (--> direkt zum Video)
15. The Self (--> direkt zum Video)
16. Testing and Intelligence (--> direkt zum Video)
17. Sex and Gender (--> direkt zum Video)
18. Maturing and Aging (--> direkt zum Video)
19. The Power of the Situation (--> direkt zum Video)
20. Constructing Social Reality (--> direkt zum Video)
21. Psychopathology (--> direkt zum Video)
22. Psychotherapy (--> direkt zum Video)
23. Health, Mind, and Behavior (--> direkt zum Video)
24. Applying Psychology in Life (--> direkt zum Video)
25. Cognitive Neuroscience (--> direkt zum Video)
26. Cultural Psychology (--> direkt zum Video)

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