In the academic year 2019-20 I am teaching the following courses at TSE:
Evolution of Economic Behavior
The course runs on Wednesdays at 11h in room MB IV.
The course outline is here. NB there has been a slight modification to the outline as of 8th October (to reflect the new content of lectures 5 and 6).
Here are the slides from the special guest lecture from primatologist Dr. Francesca De Petrillo, IAST Research Fellow, on “A Comparative Approach to Human Cognitive Evolution”, given in week 6.
The slides from Weeks 7 and 8.
Papers on optimal foraging by Charnov, McNamara & Houston and Watanabe et al.
Here is the exam (with outline answers) from last year.
Understanding Real World Organizations
The course runs on Wednesdays at 14h (MB II).
The course outline is here.
In week 10 we are going to have the improvisation session. There will be two topics:
- What are the advantages and disadvantages of legalisation of a harmful good or practice which when illegal attracts significant activity by organised crime?
- How can we decide whether and to what extent the following function as platforms: a) private protection companies employing military veterans? b) YouTube?
Here is the exam (with answer outlines) from last year.
Topics in Applied Econometrics and Development (with Ana Gazmuri)
This course runs on Friday afternoons from 14h to 17h.
The course outline is here.
Slides from Week 2.