Lecture Behavioral Labor Markets, SS 2008

Audience

The lecture is primarily targeted at graduate students from the IMPRS program. Students from other graduate programs and advanced students from the Hauptstudium are welcome as long as we have space to accomodate them.

Schedule:

• Wed. 6.8., 16:00 (Armin Falk)
• Wed. 6.8., 17:30 (Armin Falk)
• Thu. 7.8., 8:15 (Armin Falk)
• Thu. 7.8., 10:00 (Armin Falk)
• Fri. 8.8., 11:15 (Oliver Kirchkamp)
• Fri. 8.8., 14:00 (Oliver Kirchkamp)
• Sat. 9.8., 9:45 (Oliver Kirchkamp)

Literature:

• Falk, Armin et al (2007): Social comparison affects reward-related brain activity in the human ventral striatum. Science 23, Vol. 318. (5854), 1305 - 1308. (PDF)
• Falk, Armin/ Kosfeld, Michael: The Hidden Cost of Control. American Economic Review Vol. 96 No. 5 (2006), 1611-1630. (PDF)
• Armin Falk/ Andrea Ichino (2006): Clean Evidence on Peer Effects. Journal of Labor Economics, 24 (1), 39-57. (PDF)
• Armin Falk/ Ernst Fehr (2002): Psychological Foundations of Incentives. European Economic Review 46, 687-724 (PDF)

Handout

Slides from the 2nd part of the lecture (Oliver Kirchkamp)