Experimental Economics II: Theory and Experiments of Political Economy (實驗經濟學二：政治經濟學的理論與實驗)

NTU (Spring 2019)

Time: Friday, 1:20-4:20pm, at Social Sciences 604 (社科604)

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:

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

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

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

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. Holt (2007), Markets, Games and Strategic Behavior, Pearson. [雙葉代理] (undergraduate textbook)
    4. Moffatt (2016), Experimetrics: Econometrics for Experimental Economics, Palgrave.

Class Topics: (See videos from NTU OCW)

 1. [2/22] Risk and Time Preferences and Confucianism [OCW] [HW1] (Liu-2014)
                  Basic Principles of Experimental Design (OCW) (BGT, A1.2)

 o. [3/ 1 ] National Holiday - Watch Videos of BGT Ch.1: OCW1; OCW2
                  Experimental Economics and Behavioral Game Theory [HW3] (BGT, Ch.1, Chinese notes)

 2. [3/ 8 ] Social Preferences (OCW1; OCW2) [HW2]
                (Ch.2; HEE2 chapter; Reviews for Ultimatum, Dictator and Trust Games)
              

 3. [3/15] Bargaining (OCW) [HW4] (Ch.4)
 

 4. [3/22] Political Economy 1: Legislative Bargaining (old) (MM, 10.3-10.4)
 

 5. [3/29] Political Economy 2: Information Aggregation (old) (MM, 6.3-6.4)
              

 o. [4/ 5 ] Spring Break - First Replication Report due (See Jupyter notebook)

 6. [4/12] Experimetrics (Guest Lecture by Peter G. Moffatt)
                This is part of the Mini-Course in Experimetrics (Course material).  Check out the others as well!
 

 7. [4/19] Political Economy 3: Voter Participation (old) [HW5] (ABII, 7.9)

 8. [4/26] Political Economy 4: Ethical Voting

 o. [5/ 3 ] Midterm Quiz (on weekly problem sets) [Past Midterms: 18S, 15F]
              

 9. [5/10] Martket Design; Student Presentations 1
               Paper Presentation: Kim, Choi, Kim and Pop-Eleches (Science 2018) (凌卉芸)
               Paper Presentation: Bartos, Bauer, Chytilova and Matejka (AER 2016) (何翊瑜)

10.[5/17] Student Presentations 2-4 (Feedback)
               Paper Presentation: Gneezy, Kajackaite and Sobel (AER 2018) (王昱翔、何翔恩)
               Paper Presentation: Battaglini (QJE 2016) (羅廣淇)

11.[5/24] Student Presentations 5-7 (Feedback)
               Paper Presentation: Bhattacharya et al. (GEB 2014) (王詩瑾Gloria Ong)
               Paper Presentation: Battaglini, Nunnari and Palfrey (AEJmicro 2016) (孫雍皓、林芮禾)
               Paper Presentation: Ottoni-Wilhelm, Vesterlund and Xie (AER 2017) (王昱翔)

12.[5/31] Student Presentations 8-9 (Feedback)
               Paper Presentation: Dal Bo et al. (QJE 2017) (孫雍皓、林芮禾)
               Paper Presentation: Frechette and Kagel (ET 2012) (何翔恩)
               Paper Presentation: Alonso and Camara (AER 2016) (吳士宏)

 o. [6/ 7 ] Dragon Boat Festival - Second Replication Report due (See Jupyter notebook)

13.[6/14] Final Proposal Presentation (Proposal Due 6/21)