Empirical findings of the behaviour of small firms in several countries and of large firms in two countries, indicate that risk taking by some businesses differs from that indicated by the Prospect Theory. Enterprises headed by entrepreneurs are more risk-taking/risk-neutral in the area of...

Animal Spirits (2009) is a timely and widely appreciated work focusing on the need to incorporate behavioral factors in macroeconomic analysis that draws on a famous reference of John Maynard Keynes. Nonetheless, it has a number of limitations. Those in several chapters are noted. Most...

These are the notes from the first half of a course in behavioral economics offered in Uruguay in November 2014. This part of the course, entirely verbal, was aimed at outlining the essentials of behavioral economics. The principal assignments were from the second edition of Edward...