Experimental Economics I: Behavioral Game Theory (實驗經濟學一：行為賽局論)

NTU (Fall 2015)

Time: Monday, 2:20-5:20pm, at Social Sciences 305 (社科305)

Office Hour: 5:20-6pm after class or by Email appointment

Course Syllabus

     About Oral Presentation and Feedback:
               Chinese Recipe to Prepare a 20-minute Presentation: 關於 presentation 的一些想法
               Guidelines to Give Feedback: Oral Presentation Evaluation (NTU 3MT)
               Tips and Videos:
                    Data Visualization: 1812 (originally by Minard); 10 most common presentation mistakes
                    Life After Death by PowerPoint (Chinese caption; 2010 update)
                    Principles of economics, translated  (Transcription)  

Textbooks:

• Textbook:      Colin F. Camerer (2003), Behavioral Game Theory, Princeton University Press. (BGT)

• Presentation: Mullainathan and Shafir (2014), Scarcity, Picador.  (Introduction, blog)

References:

    1. Kagel and Roth (1995, 2012), Handbook of Experimental Economics, Vol.1, and selected Vol.2 chapters, Princeton UP.
    2. Holt (2007), Markets, Games and Strategic Behavior, Pearson. [雙葉代理] (undergraduate textbook)
    3. Crawford, Costa-Gomes and Iriberri (2013), "Structural Models of Nonequilibrium Strategic Thinking," JEL, 51(1), 5-62. (Level-k)
    4. Jackson (2013), "Economic Engineering and the Design of Matching Markets," SJE, 115(3), 619-639. (Market Design)
    5. 坂井豐貴 (2014), 《如何設計市場機制？》，經濟新潮社。 (Market Design)
    6. Krajbich, Oud and Fehr (2014), "Benefits of Neuroeconomic Modeling," AER-P&P, 104(5), 501-506. (Neuroeconomics)
    7. Riley (2012), Essential Microeconomics, Cambridge UP. (EM)

Class Topics:

 1. [ 9 /14] Experimental Economics and Behavioral Game Theory [HW1; old slides] (Ch.1, notes)
               Experiment 1: The Pit Market
               Experiment 2: Ultimatum Game
               Experiment 3: p-Beauty Contest

 2. [ 9 /21] Risk and Time Preferences [HW2; old slides]; Basic Principles of Experimental Design [old slides](A1.2)
               Experiment 4: Decision under Uncertainty and/or Time

 3. [10/ 5 ] Social Preferences [HW3; old slides](Ch.2; new chapter; Reviews for Ultimatum, Dictator and Trust Games)
               Experiment 10: Pull or Push
               Introduction Chapter Presentation (崔立薇、王璐清、謝東霖)

 4. [10/12] Mixed Strategy Equilibrium [HW4; old slides](Ch.3); LUPI [old slides] (Ostling-2011)
               Experiment 5: LUPI game
               Chapter 1 Presentation (童斌、平博文、賈米格)

 5. [10/19] Bargaining [old slides](Ch.4)
               Chapter 2 Presentation (TBA)

 o. [10/26] Midterm Quiz

 6. [11/ 2 ] Dominant Solvable Games [old slides] (Ch.5)
               Chapter 3 Presentation (TBA)

 7. [11/ 9 ] Level-k Thinking [old slides](Crawford-2013)
               Experiment 6: Hide and Seek Game
               Chapter 4 Presentation (陳彥勲)           

 o. [11/16] Midterm Proposal Presentation

 8. [11/23] Learning [old slides](Ch.6; new chapter)
               Chapter 5 Presentation (米歇爾、沈薔)              

 9. [11/30] Coordination and Equilibrium Selection [old slides] (Ch.7)
               Experiment 7: Presidential Nomination Game (15S Results)
               Experiment 8: Minimum Effort Game
               Experiment 9: Price/Quantity Market

10.[12/ 7 ] Signaling and Reputation [old slides](Ch.8) (Wang-2010; Lai-2014)
               Chapter 6 Presentation (黃威綸、藤原將也、吳坤融)
               Chapter 7 Presentation (羅孟斯、施立柏)              

11.[12/14] Neuroeconomics [old slides] (new chapter; Wang chapter)
               Chapter 8 Presentation (葉新、陳語宣、諶意)       

12.[12/21] Field Experiments [old slides] (Harrison-List-2004)
               Chapter 9 Presentation (吳坤融)             

13.[12/28] Market Design (A Taiwanese Example) [old slides] (Jackson-2013)
               Chapter 10 Presentation (趙恩、胡倢瑄)  

14.[ 1 / 4 ] Final Proposal Presentation (Final Proposal Due 1/11)
               Conclusion Chapter Presentation (TBA)