Economics Lab：An intensive course in experimental economics

Daniel Friedman and Alessandra Cassar  published 2004

PART I
Introductions 1
An intensive course in experimental economics 3
DANIEL FRIEDMAN
1 The Trento Summer School: adaptive economic dynamics 5
AXEL LEIJONHUFVUD
2 Economists go to the laboratory: who, what, when, and why 12
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PART II
Laboratory methods 23
3 First principles: induced value theory 25
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4 The art of experimental design 32
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5 Dialogues with the data 38
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6 Do it: running a laboratory session 65
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7 Finish what you started: project management 75
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PART III
Applications 81
8 Markets 83
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9 Auctions 92
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10 Oligopoly 105
STEFFEN HUCK
11 Games 115
ROSEMARIE NAGEL
12 Learning direction theory and impulse balance equilibrium 133
REINHARD SELTEN
13 Imitation equilibrium 141
REINHARD SELTEN
14 Choice anomalies 148
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15 Policy analysis and institutional engineering 161
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PART IV
Student projects 171
16 An asset market experiment
JOHN LATSIS, TOBIAS LINDQVIST, EVAN MOORE,
AND KYU SANG LEE 173
17 Bifurcation in a stock market experiment 179
DEBORAH LACITIGNOLA AND ALESSANDRA LA NOTTE
18 Price instability and search 187
MIGUEL CURA-JURI AND SEBASTIAN GALIANI
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19 Animal-spirits cycles 195
JASON HWANG
20 The restart effect
JINKWON LEE AND JOSE LUIS LIMA 202
21 Zone of agreement bias in integrative negotiation 210
FABIO FERIOZZI, LIVIA REINA, AND ALESSANDRO SCARTEZZINI
22 Culture from scratch: evolution of an experiment 220
WILLIAM ROBERT NELSON JR, ELENNA R.DUGUNDJI, JANE LI, AND
MARCO TECILLA
Index 229