Experimental Economics (實驗經濟學)
NTU (Spring 2014)
Time:
Friday,
2:20-5:20pm, at 社科5
Office Hour:
5:20-6pm after class or by Email appointment
Textbooks:
References:
Class Topics:
o. [ 2 /28] National
Holiday
2.
[ 3 / 7 ]
Risk
and Time Preferences
[old slides];
Basic Principles of
Experimental Design
[old
slides](BGT,
A1.2)
Experiment 4: Decision under Uncertainty
and/or Time
Book Chapter Introduction Presentation: 陳由常、郭克剛、張博凱
4. [ 3 /21]
Dominant Solvable Games
[old slides]
(BGT, Ch.5);
Level-k Thinking
[old slides](Crawford
et al., JEL 2013)
Experiment 6: Hide and Seek Game
Book Chapter 2 Presentation:
彭胤融、劉泓序、張耕齊
5. [ 3 /28]
Learning
[old
slides](BGT, Ch.6;
new chapter)
Book Chapter 3 Presentation: 劉品吾、李依依
Student Presentation:
朴寅暎、黃胤凱
Choi, Kariv, Müller and Silverman (2014), “Who is (More) Rational?” American
Economic Review, forthcoming.
o.
[ 4 / 4 ] Spring Break
6. [
4 /11]
Coordination and Equilibrium Selection
[old slides]
(BGT, Ch.7)
Experiment 7: Presidential Nomination Game
Experiment 8: Minimum Effort Game
Experiment 9: Price/Quantity Market
Book Chapter 4 Presentation:
鄭宇略、傅家楨、李偉聖
o. [ 4 /18]
Midterm Week - Proposal Due (No Class)
7. [ 4 /25]
Signaling
and Reputation [old
slides](BGT, Ch.8)
Book Chapter 5 Presentation: 王俞媗、巫宇安、吳柏賢
Student Presentation:
施正祐、陳紅霓
Battaglini, Nunnari and Palfrey (2014), “Dynamic Free Riding with Irreversible
Investments,” American Economic Review, forthcoming.
8.
[ 5 / 2 ] Cheap Talk
Experiments [old
slides](Wang et al, 2010; Lai et al. 2013)
Book Chapter 6 Presentation: 朴寅暎、黃胤凱
Student Presentation:
陳由常、郭克剛、張博凱
Battaglini and Makarov (2014), “Cheap
Talk with Multiple Audiences: an Experimental Analysis,” Games and
Economic Behavior, 83, 147-164.
9.[
5 / 9 ] Social
Preferences
[old
slides](BGT, Ch.2;
new chapter)
Experiment 10: Pull
or Push
Book Chapter 7 Presentation: 陳亦凡、黃彥霖、左如田
Student Presentation:
劉品吾、李依依
Ho and Su (2013), “A
Dynamic Level-k Model in Sequential Games,” Management Science,
59(2):452-469.
11.[ 5 /23]
Bargaining
[old
slides](BGT, Ch.4)
Book Chapter 8 Presentation: 施正祐、陳紅霓
Student Presentation:
王俞媗、巫宇安、吳柏賢
Isoni, Poulsen, Sugden and Tsutsui (2014), “Efficiency, Equality and Labeling:
An Experimental Investigation of Focal Points in Explicit Bargaining,”
American Economic Review, forthcoming.
12.[
5 /30]
Field Experiments
[old
slides] (Harrison
and List, 2004)
Student Presentation:
彭胤融、劉泓序、張耕齊
Allcott and Rogers (2014), “The Short-Run and Long-Run Effects of Behavioral
Interventions: Experimental Evidence from Energy Conservation,” American
Economic Review, forthcoming.
13.[ 6
/ 6 ]
Market Design (A
Taiwanese Example)
Student Presentation:
鄭宇略、傅家楨、李偉聖
Duffy and Puzzello (2014), “Gift Exchange versus Monetary Exchange: Theory and
Evidence,” American Economic Review, forthcoming.
14.[ 6 /13] Prediction Markets
[old
slides](MGS,
Ch.34); Asset
Bubbles
[old
slides](EL, Ch.8)
Experiment 11:
Asset Market Experiment
Student Presentation: 陳亦凡、黃彥霖、左如田
Deck, Lin and Porter (2013), “Affecting
Policy by Manipulating Prediction Markets: Experimental Evidence,”
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 85(1), 48-62.
15.[ 6 /20]
Final Proposal Due
Last
modified on
二月 06, 2015