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

NTU (Spring 2020)

Time: Monday, 2:20-5:20pm, at Social Sciences 402 (社科402) and/or online (due to COVID-19 outbreak)

Office Hour: 2:20-5:20pm during class time 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 (original link)
               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 (2019), Markets, Games, and Strategic Behavior: An Introduction to Experimental Economics, 2nd Ed., Princeton University Press. (Holt)
    4. Moffatt (2016), Experimetrics: Econometrics for Experimental Economics, Palgrave.

Class Topics:

 1. [3/ 2 ] Political Economy 1: Legislative Bargaining (old slides) (notes) (MM, 10.3-10.4)
   

 2. [3/ 9 ] Political Economy 2: Information Aggregation (old slides) (notes) (MM, 6.3-6.4)

 3. [3/16] Political Economy 2: Information Aggregation (continued)
              

 4. [3/23] Political Economy 3: Voter Participation (old slides) (notes) (ABII, 7.9)

 5. [3/30] Political Economy 3: Voter Participation (continued)

 6. [4/ 6 ] NTU OCW - Risk and Time Preferences (old slides) under Confucianism (old slides) (Holt, Ch.3; Liu et al., 2014)
                  NTU OCW - Basic Principles of Experimental Design (old slides) (OCW) (BGT, A1.2)

 7. [4/13] NTU OCW - Experimental Economics and Behavioral Game Theory (old slides) (BGT, Ch.1)
                Holt, Ch.1: Introduction
                Wang Lecture Notes in Chinese: Introduction
                BGT, Ch.1: Introduction
              

 8. [4/20] NTU OCW - Social Preferences - Part 1 and Part 2 (old slides) (BGT, Ch.2) 
                HEE2, Ch.4: Other Regarding Preferences
                Reviews for Ultimatum, Dictator and Trust Games
  

 9. [4/27] NTU OCW - Mixed Strategy Equilibrium (old slides) (BGT, Ch.3)
                LUPI (old) (OCW) (Ostling-2011; Mohlin-2020)

10.[5/ 4 ] NTU OCW - Bargaining (old slides) (BGT, Ch.4)

11.[5/11] NTU OCW - Dominant Solvable Games (old slides) (BGT, Ch.5)
                p-Beauty Contest Game Classroom Experiment Result
                  NTU OCW - Level-k Thinking (old slides) (BGT, Ch.5; Crawford-2013)

12.[5/18] NTU OCW - Learning (old slides) (BGT, Ch.6; new chapter)
                      

13.[5/25] Coordination and Equilibrium Selection (NTU OCW) (BGT, Ch.7)
                      

14.[6/ 1 ] Signaling and Reputation (NTU OCW) (BGT, Ch.8)
                      

15.[6/ 8 ] Final Proposal Presentation

15.[6/15] (Optional) NTU OCW - Neuroeconomics (old slides) (new chapter; Wang chapter)
              

16.[6/22] (Optional) NTU OCW - Field Experiment (old slides) (Harrison-List-2004; Glennerster-Takavarasha)
                (Final Proposal Due)

17.[6/29] (Optional) NTU OCW - Market Design at Taiwan (old slides) (Jackson-2013)