This page contains summaries of the courses I teach in the Department of Economics at McGill University with links to the course outlines.

I currently teach three courses in our Economics Department at McGill. One is a course in Introductory Micro Theory for our honours program, one is an Introduction to Behavioural Economics course for 3rd year students, and one is a course in Experimental Economics for upper level undergraduate and graduate students.

ECON 250 Introduction to Micro Theory Honours

In ECON 250 we introduce micro theory for our honours students. This course is more like a graduate level course than an undergraduate level course. Students learn the existence proof of expected utility theory and go on to focus on information and games to prepare themselves to be able to understand, critique, and contribute to economics research as it is presently conducted. Course Outline

ECON 310 Introduction to Behavioural Economics

In ECON 310 we introduce Behavioural Economics, which is a growing body of knowledge that is interested in how people actually behave when making individual decisions or when playing strategic games with other people. We will study this topic by analyzing our own decisions in laboratory experiments. Course Outline

ECON 510 Experimental Econoimcs

In ECON 510 we study experimental economics, which is a growing body of research concerned with how people make decisions in controlled laboratory experiments.A recent Nobel Prize in Economics was shared by an experimental psychologist and an experimental economist for fundamental contributions toward understanding individual choice and market behavior. Economics decision-making experiments are usually conducted with human subjects (typically university undergraduates) who make decisions in a market on a computer network.The subjects are paid in cash according to the results of their decisions and the decisions of the other subjects, and the results are compared with predictions from economic theory. Course Outline

I used to teach the course in advanced micro theory for our undergraduate honours students:

ECON 450 Advanced Micro Theory (Honours)

This year (Winter 2006) in ECON 450D we will focus on Behavioral Economics and Game Theory, which is a growing body of research that is concerned with how people actually make decisions of consequence in economic markets and strategic environments. We will study this topic by analyzing our own decisions in laboratory experiments.Much of the course will cover research we are currently conducting in Montreal. Course Outline