This course introduces students to the economic way of thinking and provides a foundation for analyzing individual decision-making and market outcomes. We will cover core topics in microeconomics, including supply and demand, elasticity, externalities, and the costs of production, as well as different market structures such as perfect competition, monopoly, and oligopoly. Throughout the course, we will examine how microeconomic forces and public policies influence consumer choices and firm behavior. In-class activities and economic games will be used to deepen understanding and illustrate how theoretical concepts apply in real-world settings.

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to how behavioral economics applies to real-life decision-making and the corporate world. We will cover a wide range of topics, including heuristics and biases, social preferences, risk and uncertainty, intertemporal choice, and market design, with applications to finance, labor markets, and everyday economic decisions. In this course, we will gain an overview of this fast-growing field by engaging with some of its most significant and interesting contributions. This implies a substantial amount of learning and reading. The final project requires students to design and present their own group behavioral economics projects.

This capstone course provides a research-driven introduction to experimental economics. The course serves as a culminating experience for students interested in applying economic theory and empirical methods to real-world questions. Students will learn how to formulate research questions, design experiments, collect and analyze data, and interpret results. A central component of the course is a group research project. Students will work in teams. Through this process, students will gain hands-on experience with the full research cycle, from idea generation to final presentation.