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

NTU (Spring 2023)

Time: Tuesday, 9:10am-12:10pm, at Social Sciences 608 (社科608)

Office Hour: 12:10-1:00pm 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.

• EMT:    Moffatt (2019), Experimetrics Lecture Notes for NTU mini-course. (code package)

References:

    1. Capra, Croson, Rigdon and Rosenblat ed. (2020), Handbook of Experimental Game Theory, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    2. Kagel and Roth (1995, 2016), Handbook of Experimental Economics, Vol.1, and Vol.2, Princeton University Press. (HEE1, 2)
    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. [2/21] Experimetrics (Moffatt-MiniCourse) and Behavioral Game Theory (OCW2) (BGT, Ch.1)
                Holt, Ch.1: Introduction
                Wang Lecture Notes in Chinese: Introduction
                BGT, Ch.1: Introduction

 o. [2/28] Holiday: Watch Experimental Economics and Behavioral Game Theory (OCW1) (BGT, Ch.1) on NTU-OCW

 2. [3/ 7 ] Risk and Time Preferences (OCW) (Holt, Ch.3; Liu-2014)
                  Basic Principles of Experimental Design (OCW) (BGT, A1.2)
         

 3. [3/14] Social Preferences (OCW1, OCW2) (BGT, Ch.2; HEE2, Ch.4; Lin-2020)
                Reviews for Ultimatum, Dictator and Trust Games
                Student Presentation: Risk and Time Preferences under Confucianism (Joseph)
                Student Presentation: Estimating Risk Preferences (陳詠駿)
  

 4. [3/21] Mixed-Strategy Equilibrium (OCW) (BGT, Ch.3; QRE chapter)
                Student Presentation: Double Auction and Ultimatum Game MobLab Data (謝旻衡、施帆倢)
                Student Presentation: Experimetrics Lecture Notes (Section 1.4) (張廷宇)
  

 5. [3/28] Bargaining (OCW) (BGT, Ch.4; Camerer-2022)  
                Student Presentation: LUPI (Samira, Roariker) (Joseph-slides; OCW)
                Student Presentation: Experimetrics Lecture Notes (Section 2.1-2.3) (何雨忻)

 o. [4/ 4 ] Spring Break: Watch Neuroeconomics on NTU-OCW
                 (HEE2, Ch.3; Krajbich-2014; Chen-Wang-2019)

 6. [4/11] Dominant Solvable Games (OCW) (BGT, Ch.5)
                 Level-k Thinking (OCW) (Crawford-2013; Wang-2010)
                 Student Presentation: Analyze Bargaining Process via Machine Learning (康柏賢)
                 Student Presentation: Experimetrics Lecture Notes (Section 3.1) (沈汶鋒)

 7. [4/18] Learning (OCW) (BGT, Ch.6; HEE2, Ch.10; Knoepfle-2009; Chen-2020)
                 Student Presentation: Spatial Beauty Contests (黃子竣、林欣葇)
                 Student Presentation: Experimetrics Lecture Notes (Section 3.2-3.3) (陳詠駿、張學仁)

 8. [4/25] Coordination (OCW) (BGT, Ch.7)
                 Student Presentation: Cursed Sequential Equilibrium (張學仁)
                 Student Presentation: Cheap Talk (賴恩得)
                 Student Presentation: Pinocchio's Pupil (劉彥均)
                 Student Presentation: Experimetrics Lecture Notes (Section 3.4-3.9) (蘇靖勛、胡南圳)
 

 9. [5/ 2 ] Coordination (OCW) (BGT, Ch.7)
                 Student Presentation: Learning LUPI (蘇靖勛、胡南圳)
                 Student Presentation: Eyetracking Learning (沈汶鋒)
                 Student Presentation: Experimetrics Lecture Notes (Section 3.10-3.11) (林欣葇)                      

10.[5/ 9 ] Auctions (EL, Ch.9; HEE2, Ch.9)
                 Student Presentation: Open vs. Closed Rule (何雨忻)
                 Student Presentation: Experimetrics Lecture Notes (Section 4.1-4.2) (劉彥均)
                 Student Presentation: Experimetrics Lecture Notes (Section 4.3) (賴恩得)

11.[5/16] Signaling and Reputation (OCW) (BGT, Ch.8)
                 Student Presentation: Experimetrics Lecture Notes (Section 5.1-5.4) (康柏賢)
                 Student Presentation: Experimetrics (Section 16.1-16.3) (施帆倢)
                      

12.[5/23] Market Design (OCW) (Jackson-2013; HEE2, Ch.5) and Replication Exercise Due
                 Student Presentation: Experimetrics (Section 16.4-16.6) (Samira, Roariker)

13.[5/30] Final Proposal Presentation

14.[6/ 6 ] Revised Proposal Presentation (Proposal Due 6/9, 5pm)