ECN 421E - Experimental Economics

Course Objectives

1-) To learn experimental methods from business, and economics fields to answer research questions.
2-) To learn to test economic theories using laboratory and field experiments.
3-) To understand the statistical methods used in analyzing the outcomes of experiments

Course Description

History of experimentation, experiment design, statistical analysis of experimental findings, experiments on individual decision making questions such as risk aversion and overconfidence, auctions, game theoretical questions, markets, oligopoly, learning direction theory and impulse balance equilibrium, imitation equilibrium, choice anomalies, policy analysis and institutional engineering, voluntary contributions.