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

NTU (Spring 2018)

Time: Friday, 1:20-4:20pm, at Social Sciences 405 (社科405)

Office Hour: 4:20-5pm 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 Criteria and Checklist
               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)

• Textbook:    McCarty and Meirowitz (2007), Political Game Theory, Cambridge University Press. (MM; Author version)

• Textbook:    Austen-Smith and Banks (2005), Positive Political Theory II, University of Michigan Press. (ABII)

References:

    1. Kagel and Roth (1995, 2016), Handbook of Experimental Economics, Vol.1, and Vol.2, Princeton University Press. (HEE1, 2)
    2. Palfrey (2016), "Experiments in Political Economy," in HEE2. (Survey: Experiments)
    3. Crawford, Costa-Gomes and Iriberri (2013), "Structural Models of Nonequilibrium Strategic Thinking," JEL, 51(1), 5-62. (Level-k)
    4. Riley (2012), Essential Microeconomics, Cambridge University Press. (EM)
    5. Holt (2007), Markets, Games and Strategic Behavior, Pearson. [雙葉代理] (undergraduate textbook)
    6. Mas-Colell, Whinston and Green (1995), Microeconomic Theory, Oxford University Press.  (MWG)

Class Topics: (See videos from NTU OCW)

 1. [3/ 2 ] Risk and Time Preferences [OCW] [HW1]; Basic Principles of Experimental Design (OCW) [old slides](A1.2)
              

 2. [3/ 9 ] Social Preferences (OCW1; OCW2) [HW2] (Ch.2; new chapter; Reviews for Ultimatum, Dictator and Trust Games)
              

 3. [3/16] Mixed Strategy Equilibrium (OCW) [HW3] (Ch.3); LUPI (OCW) (Ostling-2011)

 4. [3/23] Dominant Solvable Games (OCW) [HW5] (Ch.5); Level-k Thinking (OCW) [HW6] (Crawford-2013)
                    p-Beauty Contest Game Classroom Experiment Result
 

 5. [3/30] Bargaining (OCW) [HW4] (Ch.4)
 

 o. [4/ 3 ] Spring Break - Watch OCW of Experimental Economics and Behavioral Game Theory (OCW1; OCW2) [HW0] (BGT, Ch.1, notes)

 6. [4/13] Political Economy 1: Legislative Bargaining (notes) [HW6] (MM, 10.3-10.4)
              

 7. [4/20] Political Economy 2: Information Aggregation (notes) [HW7] (MM, 6.3-6.4)

 o. [4/27] Midterm Quiz (on weekly problem sets) [Past Midterm]
              

 8. [5/ 4 ] Political Economy 3: Voter Participation (notes) (ABII, 7.9)

 9. [5/11] Political Economy 4: Dynamic Political Economy (notes) (BCE-AER14; DF-QJE11)
              

10.[5/18] Student Presentations 1-2 (Feedback)
               Paper Presentation: Wang, Spezio and Camerer (AER 2010) (詹苡晴、姚叡霓)
               Paper Presentation: Lai, Lin and Wang (GEB 2015) (楊廣元、簡暐如)

11.[5/25] Student Presentations 3-5 (Feedback)
               Paper Presentation: Vespa and Wilson (QE 2016) (張可苑、黃薇瑾)
               Paper Presentation: Battaglini, Nunnari and Palfrey (APSR 2012) (Cor.) (郭東倫、Tapiwa、楊國泰)
               Paper Presentation: Agranov and Tergiman (JPubE 2014) (曾靖容、蔡言悌)

12.[6/ 1 ] Student Presentations 6-7 (Feedback)
               Paper Presentation: Minozzi and Woon (GEB 2016) (呂越、蔣采容、洪大為)
               Paper Presentation: Guarnaschelli, McKelvey and Palfrey (APSR 2000) (顏瑜萱、陳庭偉)

13.[6/ 8 ] Student Presentations 8-10 (Feedback)
               Paper Presentation: Battaglini, Lai, Lin and Wang (wp 2017) (楊廣元、簡暐如)
               Paper Presentation: Battaglini, Morton and Palfrey (REStud 2010) (郭東倫、Tapiwa、楊國泰)
               Paper Presentation: Frechette, Kagel and Lehrer (APSR 2003) (呂越、蔣采容、洪大為)

14.[6/15] Student Presentations 11-12 (Feedback)
               Paper Presentation: Levine and Palfrey (APSR 2007) (陳君碩)
               Paper Presentation: Goeree and Yariv (ECMA 2011) (李家緯、呂銘耀)

 o.[6/22] Final Proposal Presentation (Proposal Due 6/29)