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

NTU (Spring 2025)

Time: Monday, 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

Textbooks:

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

• MS :    

Other Recommended Readings:

    1. Holt (2019), Markets, Games, and Strategic Behavior: An Introduction to Experimental Economics, 2nd Ed., Princeton University Press. (Holt)
    2. Moffatt (2019), Experimetrics Lecture Notes for NTU mini-course. (code and data)
    3. Moffatt (2016), Experimetrics: Econometrics for Experimental Economics, Palgrave. (online resources)
    4. Riley (2012), Essential Microeconomics, Cambridge University Press. (EM)
    5. Mas-Colell, Whinston and Green (1995), Microeconomic Theory, Oxford University Press.  (MWG)
    6. Kagel and Roth (1995, 2016), Handbook of Experimental Economics, Vol.1, and Vol.2, Princeton University Press. (HEE1, 2)
    7. Capra, Croson, Rigdon and Rosenblat ed. (2020), Handbook of Experimental Game Theory, Edward Elgar Publishing.

    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 with Chinese caption (2010 Update with Chinese)
                    Principles of economics, translated (Transcription)

Class Topics:

 1. [ 9/ 1 ] Experimental Economics and Behavioral Game Theory (old) (OCW1,OCW2) (BGT, Ch.1)
                  Holt, Ch.1: Introduction
                  Wang Lecture Notes in Chinese: Introduction
                  BGT, Ch.1: Introduction

 2. [ 9/ 8 ] Risk and Time Preferences (old) (OCW) under Confucianism (old) (Holt, Ch.3; Liu-2014)
                   Basic Principles of Experimental Design (old) (OCW) (BGT, A1.2)

 3. [ 9/15] Social Preferences (old) (OCW1,OCW2) (BGT, Ch.2; HEE2, Ch.4; Lin-2020)
                   Reviews for Ultimatum, Dictator and Trust Games
  

 4. [ 9/22] Mixed-Strategy Equilibrium (old) (OCW) (BGT, Ch.3; QRE chapter)
                  Student Presentation: MS (Ch.0-3)
                  Student Presentation: MS (Ch.4-7)

 5. [ 9/29] Bargaining (old) (OCW) (BGT, Ch.4; Camerer-2022)
                  Student Presentation: MS (Ch.8-12)

 o. [10/ 6 ] Moon Festival (no class)
 

 6. [10/13] Midterm Quiz

 7. [10/20] Dominant Solvable Games (old) (OCW) (BGT, Ch.5)
                   Student Presentation: MS (Ch.13-16)

 8. [10/27] Level-k Thinking (old) (OCW) (Crawford-2013; Wang-2010)
                   Student Presentation: MS (Ch.17-20)

 9. [11/3 ] Midterm Proposal Presentation

10.[11/10] Learning (old) (OCW) (BGT, Ch.6; HEE2, Ch.10; Knoepfle-2009; Chen-2020)
                   Joseph's Presentation: Estimating Learning (Experimetrics 18.1-18.8) in Experimetrics Module
                   Student Presentation: MS (Ch.21-24)

11.[11/17] Coordination (old) (OCW) (BGT, Ch.7)
                   Student Presentation: MS (Ch.25-28)

12.[11/24] Signaling and Reputation (old) (OCW) (BGT, Ch.8)
 

13.[12/ 1 ] Final Quiz

14.[12/ 8 ] Final Proposal Presentation (Final Proposal Due 12/15, 5pm)