Lake Como School EBMP 2019 — Economic Behaviours: Models, Measurements, and Policies

The summer school is intended to foster reflection on economic models of rational as well as bounded or irrational decision, focusing on their explanatory power as well as normative/policy implications. The status and interpretation of the parameters and variables of these models will also be a key issue: Are psychologistic interpretations of preferences and beliefs, for example, justified by experimental data? Or have traditional instrumentalist and behaviourist interpretations been unchallenged by the emergence of behavioural and experimental economics?