Search by tag «Behavioral Economics» 2 results

• Expert in Health Economics Ekaterina Aleksandrova on How to Evaluate Well-Being

  University isn’t just a place for lectures and exams – it’s an environment where students acquire new skills, communicate, initiate new projects, and enjoy their free time. How do we make it comfortable and help every person realize their potential? Health economics researchers try to answer these and many other related questions. We talked about this field and its significance with Ekaterina Aleksandrova, head of the Higher School of Economics’ International Center for Health Economics, Management, and Policy and a research associate of ITMO Univesity’s Institute of International Development and Partnership.  

  05.04.2022

• Behavioral Economics: Why Humans Aren’t Made to Be Rational

  ITMO University’s Open Fintech is a course about how we make purchases, manage finances, and invest money. Last week’s lecture of the course focused on the topic of behavioral economics. Maxim Korotkov, a graduate of ITMO’s Computer Technologies Department, an MBA of the Vlerick Leuven Ghent School of Management, and a practice manager in corporate payments at FIS Global, explained why the laws of logic don’t apply to insurance policies, and why intuition always loses to the most primitive modeling. 

  17.04.2019