The Summer School on Behavioral Economics and Psychology brings to students of various backgrounds the state-of-art research on behavioral aspects of decision-making and experimental psychology.The program will also provide students with a unique opportunity to learn about the implications of behavioral research for policy making and the creation of public institutions as well as its practical applications helping to cope with flood of information in the modern world and in the realm of organizational management.

Course leader
Petr Koblovsky, Ph.D., LL.M., Marek Vranka, Petr Houdek, Marek Havrda, Ph.D.

Target group
Young academic professionals who are currently students of either undergraduate or graduate degrees in any relevant academic programmes.

Course aim
Recently, more and more studies present a variety of decision-making errors and biases being under the umbrella of the trio of limited will-power, limited self-interest and bounded rationality. Insights obtained from behavioral economics research can be also used to design new institutional settings that will help people avoid negative consequences of their systematic errors in decision making, yet maintain the possibility of freedom of choice for those who wish to diverge from the default. This "libertarian paternalistic" approach provides one of the most interesting and practical frameworks for creating incentive structures not only in public policy sphere, but also in management and marketing.The aim of the program is to provide students with a unique opportunity to gain or deepen their knowledge of decision-making and its errors, and behavioral economics implications for policy making and creation of public institutional settings as well as its practical implications for the realm of organizational management and helping us to cope with flood of information in the current world.In order to better understand scientific methods used in research, the participants will design their own experiments under the supervision of the lecturers, conduct them, and present their results to the other participants, who subject them to critical discussions.The knowledge and analytical skills, which the students shall acquire can be utilized in the areas of policy making, management, marketing and advertising, consulting as well as media.

Credits info
Our programs have full accreditation from the Czech Ministry of Education. If you wish to receive credits for attending a summer school, you need to negotiate the amount of credits with your university. In the past many students have counted our programs towards their degree.

Fee info
EUR 750: Final dealine for applications is April 30, 2015.Tuition includes complete course reading materials, student's handbook, maps, accommodation and two meals per day (breakfast and dinner), fieldtrips, and cultural and special events.

Scholarships
There are currently no scholarships offered by the SCHOLA EMPIRICA.

SCHOLA EMPIRICA
Address: Na z%C3%A1jezdu 4, 101 00 Praha 10 Czech Republic Vyjezdova 510, 190 11 Praha 9 Czech Republic
Postal code: 101 00
City: Prague
Country: Czech Republic
Website: http://www.praguesummerschools.org/
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Phone: +420 739 569 045