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

NTU (Spring 2021)

Time: Friday, 1:20-4:20pm, at Social Sciences 609 (社科609)

Office Hour: 4:20-5:20pm 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 (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.

References:

    1. Kagel and Roth (1995, 2016), Handbook of Experimental Economics, Vol.1, and Vol.2, Princeton University Press. (HEE1, 2)
    2. Holt (2019), Markets, Games, and Strategic Behavior: An Introduction to Experimental Economics, 2nd Ed., Princeton University Press. (Holt)
    3. Moffatt (2016), Experimetrics: Econometrics for Experimental Economics, Palgrave.

Class Topics:

 1. [2/26] Experimental Economics and Behavioral Game Theory (OCW1 and OCW2) (BGT, Ch.1)
                Holt, Ch.1: Introduction
                Wang Lecture Notes in Chinese: Introduction
                BGT, Ch.1: Introduction

 2. [3/ 5 ] Risk and Time Preferences (OCW) (Holt, Ch.3; Liu-2014)
                  Basic Principles of Experimental Design (OCW) (BGT, A1.2)
         

 3. [3/12] Social Preferences (part 1) (OCW1) (BGT, Ch.2; HEE2, Ch.4; Lin-2020)
                Reviews for Ultimatum and Dictator Games
  

 3. [3/19] Social Preferences (part 2) (OCW2) (BGT, Ch.2; HEE2, Ch.4; Lin-2020)
                Reviews for Trust Games
  

 4. [3/26] Mixed-Strategy Equilibrium (OCW) (BGT, Ch.3; QRE chapter)
                 Student Presentation: Risk and Time Preferences under Confucianism (Joseph)

 o. [4/ 2 ] Spring Break (Holiday)

 5. [4/ 9 ] Bargaining (OCW) (BGT, Ch.4; Chen-2021)
                 Student Presentation: Double Auction and Ultimatum Bargaining Classroom Data from MobLab (紀禹丞)

 6. [4/16] Dominant Solvable Games (OCW) (BGT, Ch.5)
                 Student Presentation: LUPI (Tasa Densmore) (Joseph-slides; OCW)
                 Student Presentation: Learning LUPI (張舜文)

 7. [4/23] Level-k Thinking (OCW) (Crawford-2013; Wang-2010)
                 Student Presentation: Analyze Bargaining Process via Machine Learning (胡翔閎)

 8. [4/30] Learning (OCW) (BGT, Ch.6; HEE2, Ch.10; Knoepfle-2009; Chen-2020)
                 Student Presentation: Spatial Beauty Contests (蘇柏睿)

 9. [5/ 7 ] Coordination (OCW) (BGT, Ch.7)
                 Replication Exercise
                 Student Presentation: Pinocchio's Pupil (羅偉駿)
                      

10.[5/14] Signaling and Reputation (OCW) (BGT, Ch.8)
                 Student Presentation: Eyetrack Learning (胡將相)
                      

11.[5/21] Market Design (Online) (OCW) (Jackson-2013; HEE2, Ch.5)

12.[5/28] Student Presentation: Equilibrium Selection in Cheap Talk (Lai-2015; 劉瑞丰)
                  Student Presentation: Cheap Talk (Cai-2006; 翁維謙)
                  Student Presentation: Open vs. Closed Rule (Battaglini-2019; 廖為謙)

13.[6/ 4 ] Auctions (Online) (EL, Ch.9; HEE2, Ch.9)
                  Field Experiments (Online; OCW) (Harrison-List-2004; Glennerster-Takavarasha)

14.[6/11] Neuroeconomics (Online; OCW) (HEE2, Ch.3; Krajbich-2014; Chen-Wang-2019)
                  Experimetrics (Online) (Moffatt-MiniCourse)
  

 o. [6/18] Final Proposal Due

 o. [6/25] Replication Exercise Due