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- Code:
- 62621
- Field:
- Behavioral Economics
- Target:
- PhD students
- Organiser:
- Hanken School of Economics
- Instructor:
- Topi Miettinen
- Period:
- Period 1
- Format:
- Participation in teaching
- Method:
- Blended teaching
- Venue:
- Hanken Campus
- Enrollment:
In case of conflicting information consider the Sisu/Moodle pages the primary source of information.
Aalto, Hanken and UH economics students can enroll through their home university’s SISU. Further instructions are available on the How to enroll? page, also for students from other universities.
If you would like to count the credits towards your degree, please check your curriculum or contact your supervisor or student services for guidance.
- A Moodle course key will be sent by email (to your Hanken email address) or it is posted as a message in Sisu couple of days before the course starts.
- Log in with your Hanken username to be able to use all the features of the course workspace.
- More tips for enrolling in Moodle can be found here.
Content
The course will focus on designing experiments to test behavioral economics theory. The course covers behavioral decision theory (e.g. risk and time preference) and behavioral game theory and many applications in relevant subfields such as industrial organization, banking, finance, macroeconomics, development economics. There will be a specific emphasis on methods that allow testing theory-based hypotheses in the laboratory, in online experiments, and in field experiments. The course includes both online lectures and three in-person lectures, two in Helsinki and one in Lund. The first in-person (hybrid) lectures will take place in Helsinki (Finland) on September 25th, right before the NCBEE 2026, the Nordic Conference for Behavioral and Experimental Economics. The final in-person session will take place in Lund (Sweden) on November 21, in association with the workshop of Copenhagen Network of Experimental Economists. Participants are requested to attend at least one of these in-person events (and follow the other one online or in-person). Between the two in-person events, there is a series of online lectures with a focus on methods and practical skills. The examination will consist of one smaller method-related assignment and a final assignment which will ask participants to design a poster, in groups, with a research idea on a topic relating to the course materials and methods.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, you will be able to:
- Design lab, online and field experiments to test (behavioral) economic theory
- Follow research in the international frontier in behavioral economics
- Apply key methods and identify advantages and shortcomings of various experimental designs
- Conduct independent research in behavioral and experimental economics