The course is conducted in English。

This is an upper division and graduate level course on experimental economics, focusing on behavioral game theory. The purpose is to introduce experimental economics to students so they can start their own research in this field. You are also expected to perform replication and present them.

Specific goals of this course include: 1. Introduction to Experimental Economics: After this class, students are expected to name classic experiments in each field of behavioral game theory and describe how their results affirm or differ from economic theory and field data. 2. Evaluate Current Research: After this class, students are expected to develop the ability to read journal articles in experimental economics and evaluate their quality. Each week students are expected to read assigned journal articles, complete problem sets in preparation for the final quiz. They will also form groups to present one paper in class and replicate its results in a final report. 3. Experimental Design: After this class, students are expected to understand how experiments are run and designed. Students may also write a research proposal to: a. Propose an economic experiment (and write sample instructions) which has: i. Real Incentives (so choices have real consequences), ii. A Good Control Group (to compare with Treatment group), iii. Random Assignment (to the Treatment and Control groups), iv. No deception (to establish reputation so real incentives are believed). b. Argue why should we care about this experiment and why the experiment is designed this way (compared to other possible designs), and, c. Relate your experiment to existing literature (if any) and describe expected results and/or methods to analyze the data with appropriate power analysis.

Intermediate microeconomics or game theory is the pre-requisite of this course, though graduate microeconomic theory and/or undergraduate analysis is a plus.

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1. Camerer (2003), Behavioral Game Theory, Princeton University Press. (BGT) 2. Moffatt (2019), Experimetrics Lecture Notes for NTU mini-course. (EMT) 3. Weizsäcker (2023), Misunderstandings, OpenBook Publishers. (MU)

1. Holt (2019), Markets, Games and Strategic Behavior: An Introduction to Experimental Economics, 2nd ed., Princeton University Press. (Undergraduate; Holt) 2. Moffatt (2016), Experimetrics: Econometrics for Experimental Economics, Palgrave. 3. Riley (2012), Essential Microeconomics, Cambridge University Press. (EM). 4. Mas-Colell, Whinston and Green (1995), Microeconomic Theory, Oxford UP. (MWG) 5. Kagel and Roth, ed. (1995, 2016), Handbook of Experimental Economics, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, Princeton University Press (EE1, EE2). 6. Capra, Croson, Rigdon and Rosenblat, ed. (2020), Handbook of Experimental Game Theory, Edward Elgar Publishing. (EGT)