Experiments P - Practical Experimental Economics for Graduate Students SS 2011

This course is part of the International Max Planck Research School on Adapting Behavior in a Fundamentally Uncertain World

Schedule:

Lecture (daily): 8.-12. August, 14:00-15:30.

Topics:

1. • Introduction
   • Models, theories, the real world, and the laboratory.
2. • Implementing experiments
3. • Simple interactive experiments with z-Tree
4. • Contract tables with z-Tree
5. • Graphs with z-Tree

Using z-Tree

Tipps on using z-Tree with wine can be found here

Literature

• Daniel Friedman, Shyam Sunder, Experimental Methods: A Primer for Economists, Cambridge Univ Press, 1994
• Documentation for z-Tree
• J. H. Kagel and A. E. Roth, The Handbook of Experimental Economics, Princeton University Press, 1995.