Economics Lab : An Intensive Course in Experimental Economics

ISBN-13: 9780415324014 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 248 str.

Daniel Friedman; Dan Friedman

Opis

This user-friendly textbook gives an introduction to the world of experimental economics. The book begins with an exploration of the history of experimental economics before moving on to describing how to set up an economics emperiment and surveying selected applications and methods.

Spis treści

Part 1: Introductions  1. An Intensive Course in Experimental Economics  2. The Trento Summer School  3. Economists Go to the Laboratory: Who, What, When and Why?  Part 2: Laboratory Methods  4. First Principles: Induced Value Theory  5. The Art of Experimental Design  6. Dialogues with the Data  7. Do it: Running a Laboratory Session  8. Finish What You Started: Project Management  Part 3: Applications  9. Markets  10. Auctions  11. Oligopoly  12. Games  13. Learning Direction Theory and Impulse Balance Equilibrium  14. Imitation Equilibrium  15. Choice Anomalies  16. Institutional Engineering  Part 4: Projects  17. An Asset Market Experiment  18. Bifurcation in a Stock Market Experiment  19. Price Instability and Search  20. Animal-Spirits Cycles  21. The Restart Effect  22. Integrative Negotiation  23. Culture from Scratch

O autorze

Daniel Friedman is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA.
Alessandra Cassar is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of San Francisco, USA.