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

NTU (Spring 2025)

Time: Monday, 9:10am-12:10pm, at Social Sciences 607 (社科607)

Office Hour: 12:10-1:00pm after class or by Email appointment

Course Syllabus

Textbooks:

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

• HEE2:   Kagel and Roth (2016), Handbook of Experimental Economics, Vol.2, Princeton University Press. (HEE2)

Other Recommended Readings:

    1. Holt (2019), Markets, Games, and Strategic Behavior: An Introduction to Experimental Economics, 2nd Ed., Princeton University Press. (Holt)
    2. Moffatt (2019), Experimetrics Lecture Notes for NTU mini-course. (code and data)
    3. Moffatt (2016), Experimetrics: Econometrics for Experimental Economics, Palgrave. (online resources)
    4. Riley (2012), Essential Microeconomics, Cambridge University Press. (EM)
    5. Mas-Colell, Whinston and Green (1995), Microeconomic Theory, Oxford University Press.  (MWG)
    6. Kagel and Roth (1995), Handbook of Experimental Economics, Vol.1, Princeton University Press. (HEE1)
    7. Capra, Croson, Rigdon and Rosenblat ed. (2020), Handbook of Experimental Game Theory, Edward Elgar Publishing.

    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 (original link)
               Tips and Videos:
                    Data Visualization: 1812 (originally by Minard); 10 most common presentation mistakes
                    Life After Death by PowerPoint with Chinese caption (2010 Update with Chinese)
                    Principles of economics, translated (Transcription)

Class Topics:

 1. [ 9/ 1 ] Experimental Economics and Behavioral Game Theory (OCW1,OCW2) (BGT, Ch.1)
                  BGT, Ch.1: Introduction
                  Holt, Ch.1: Introduction
                  Wang Lecture Notes in Chinese: Introduction

 2. [ 9/ 8 ] Risk and Time Preferences (OCW) under Confucianism (Holt, Ch.3; HEE2, Ch.3; Liu-2014)
                   Basic Principles of Experimental Design (OCW) (BGT, A1.2)

 3. [ 9/15] Social Preferences (OCW1,OCW2) (BGT, Ch.2; HEE2, Ch.4; Lin-2020)
                   Reviews for Ultimatum, Dictator and Trust Games
  

 4. [ 9/22] Mixed-Strategy Equilibrium (OCW) in LUPI Games (OCW) (BGT, Ch.3; QRE chapter)

 o.[9/27-28] Attend 2nd EAEBEW

 o. [ 9/29] Market Design (OCW) (Jackson-2013; HEE2, Ch.5) [at Social Sciences 713 (社科713)] [Note: Class During Teacher's Day Long Weekend!]
                  Student Presentation: [HEE2, Ch.3] Neuroeconomics (劉秀玲、林禎瑭)
                  Student Presentation: [HEE2, Ch.4] Other-Regarding Preferences (黃朝安、蔡秉佑)
                  Student Presentation: [HEE2, Ch.5] Experiments in Market Design (羅勻謙、朱建遠)

 •  [10/ 6 ] Moon Festival (no class): Watch Neuroeconomics on OCW
                 (HEE2, Ch.3; Krajbich-2014; Chen-2019)

 •  [10/13] Midterm Quiz

 •  [10/20] Class moved to Teacher’s Day Long Weekend (no class): Watch Field Experiments on OCW

 5. [10/27] Bargaining (old) (OCW1, OCW2) (BGT, Ch.4; Camerer-2022)
                  Student Presentation: Chen et al. (2022) (林琮恩、Christian)
                  Student Presentation: Battaglini et al. (APSR 2019) (Tomer Sahar and Mehmet Bugra Eraslan)
                  Student Presentation: [HEE2, Ch.6] Experiments in Political Economy (林昱錡，姜芃瑋，張晏儒)
 

 6. [11/3 ] Dominant Solvable Games (old) (OCW) (BGT, Ch.5)
                  Student Presentation: Liu, Meng and Wang (JEBO 2014) (Louane Ladavière, Eva Richard) (Joseph-slides)
                  Student Presentation: Chen, Huang and Wang (GEB 2018) (廖婕妤、馮心如)
                  Student Presentation: [HEE2, Ch.9] Auctions: A Survey of Experimental Research (Shiko Kudo, 王玥欣)

 7.[11/10] Level-k Thinking (old) (OCW) (Crawford-2013; Wang-2010)
                  Student Presentation: Ostling et al. (AEJ-micro 2011) (羅勻謙、朱建遠) (Joseph-slides; OCW)
                  Student Presentation: [HEE2, Ch.7] Experimental Economics Across Subject Populations (Angelina, Ariane, Bertille)

 8.[11/17] Learning (old) (OCW) (BGT, Ch.6; HEE2, Ch.10; Knoepfle-2009; Chen-2020) and Estimating Learning (Experimetrics 18.1-18.8)
                  Student Presentation: Mohlin, Ostling and Wang (GEB 2020) (黃朝安、蔡秉佑)
                  Student Presentation: Knoepfle et al. (JEEA 2009) (林昱錡，姜芃瑋，張晏儒)
                  Student Presentation: [HEE2, Ch.2] Using Experimental Methods to Understand Why and How We Give to Charity (林琮恩、Christian)

 9.[11/24] Coordination (old) (OCW) (BGT, Ch.7)
                  Student Presentation: He, Analytis and Bhatia (MS 2022) (劉秀玲、林禎瑭)
                  Student Presentation: [HEE2, Ch.10] Learning and the Economics of Small Decisions (廖婕妤、馮心如)
                  Student Presentation: [HEE2, Ch.1] Macroeconomics (Tomer Sahar and Mehmet Bugra Eraslan)
 

10.[12/ 1 ] Signaling and Reputation (old) (OCW) (BGT, Ch.8)
                  Student Presentation: Wang, Spezio and Camerer (AER 2011) (Angelina, Ariane, Bertille)
                  Student Presentation: Andersen et al. (AER 2011) (Shiko Kudo, 王玥欣)
                  Student Presentation: [HEE2, Ch.8] Gender (Louane Ladavière, Eva Richard)

 •  [12/ 8 ] Final Proposal Presentation

 •  [12/15] Final Quiz (Final Proposal Due 12/15, 5pm)