Experimental economics
Informacje ogólne
Kod przedmiotu: | 2400-SZD-QPE-EE |
Kod Erasmus / ISCED: | (brak danych) / (brak danych) |
Nazwa przedmiotu: | Experimental economics |
Jednostka: | Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych |
Grupy: |
Przedmioty WNE dla programu QPE w Międzydziedzinowej Szkole Doktorskiej (ZIP) |
Punkty ECTS i inne: |
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Język prowadzenia: | angielski |
Skrócony opis: |
(tylko po angielsku) This course will cover a number of key questions and techniques of experimental economics. |
Pełny opis: |
(tylko po angielsku) During the course of this seminar we will discuss and practice various aspects of using experimental methods in economics, including ● Judging if experiment is a suitable tool to answer research questions at hand ● Designing experiments: o Field vs. lab o Online vs. offline but computerized vs. pen&paper o One-time vs. repeated decision; types of group matching o Treatment: blocking/controlling and randomizing; level of randomization; factorial designs o Econs’ tricks: BDM, strategy method, random lottery incentive system, conditional information lottery… ● Determining the sample: desirable subject pool and sample size (power calculations)… ● Writing experimental instructions ● Programing experiments ● Analysing experimental data ● Writing papers based on experiments The substantive areas to which these will be applied will depend on participants’ interests but may include: ● Biases in judgment and decision making ● Decision making under risk and uncertainty ● Time preference and self-control ● Social/distributional preference ● Strategic games ● Bargaining and negotiations ● Markets ● Gender and discrimination |
Literatura: |
(tylko po angielsku) The Handbook of Experimental Economics, John Kagel and Alvin E. Roth, editors, Princeton University Press, 1995. Colin Camerer, Behavioral Game Theory: Experiments in Strategic Interaction, Princeton University Press, 2003. Bardsley, Nicholas, et al. Experimental economics: Rethinking the rules. Princeton University Press, 2010. … and numerous journal articles. |
Efekty uczenia się: |
(tylko po angielsku) The students will become familiar with the methods of experimental economics (P8S_WG) able to apply them in their own research agenda (P8S_UW) aware of the responsibility towards the participants of experiments, the research community and society at large (P8S_KO, P8S_KR) |
Metody i kryteria oceniania: |
(tylko po angielsku) The students will be required to design an experimental study and hand in a stub of a paper, including abbreviated introduction/motivation and literature review, detailed design & procedures/methods section. They will also be required to conduct a pilot or manipulation check for the experiment. |
Właścicielem praw autorskich jest Uniwersytet DEMO.