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Based exclusively on original, often recent, scientific publications. Teresa morais leitao direito pro bono1 fdul office. In law and economics today, both the endowment effect and other. A pragmatic perspective raj chetty harvard university and nber january 2015 abstract the debate about behavioral economics the incorporation of insights from psychology into economics is often framed as a question about the foundational assumptions of economic models. Econ 672b behavioral finance department of economics. Syllabus behavioral law and economics an introduction professor rute saraiva fdul office. What are the effects of those laws on the economic behavior of. Behavioral economics, bs bs this new collaborative field, behavioral economics, has provided an understanding of how peoples decisions deviate from optimal choices and the consequences of such deviations for consumers, managers, firms, and policy.
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