ADVANCED CONSUMER POLICY

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe some of the ways in which individuals make decisions and exhibit behavior that systematically deviates from the predictions of traditional economic models of rational actors Audience: Graduate 2. Compare and contrast traditional policy tools and levers with interventions informed by behavioral economics and assess their relative efficacy in addressing a potential policy problem Audience: Graduate 3. Critically evaluate and discuss policy solutions in recent empirical policy-focused consumer research, including being able to assess the extent to which given solutions may or may not extrapolate to other domains and populations Audience: Graduate 4. Identify policy issues and generate potential solutions that apply insights from behavioral economics to policy design, drawing on both existing research and behavioral economic theories Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe some of the ways in which individuals make decisions and exhibit behavior that systematically deviates from the predictions of traditional economic models of rational actors Audience: Graduate 2. Compare and contrast traditional policy tools and levers with interventions informed by behavioral economics and assess their relative efficacy in addressing a potential policy problem Audience: Graduate 3. Critically evaluate and discuss policy solutions in recent empirical policy-focused consumer research, including being able to assess the extent to which given solutions may or may not extrapolate to other domains and populations Audience: Graduate 4. Identify policy issues and generate potential solutions that apply insights from behavioral economics to policy design, drawing on both existing research and behavioral economic theories Audience: Graduate