Nicolas Jacquemet, Olivier L'Haridon

Experimental Economics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Demonstrates how controlled experiments can be a useful tool in providing empirical evidence relevant to economic research.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 476
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 996g
• ISBN-13: 9781107060272
• ISBN-10: 1107060273
• Artikelnr.: 52418686

Autorenporträt

Nicolas Jacquemet is a full professor at University Paris-1 Panthéon Sorbonne and the Paris School of Economics. His research combines experimental methods and econometrics to study discrimination, the effect of personality traits on economic behaviour, the role of social pre-involvement in strategic behaviour and experimental game theory. His research has been published in Econometrica, Management Science, Games and Economic Behavior, the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, the Journal of Health Economics, and the Journal of Economic Psychology.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. What Is It? An Introduction to Experimental Economics: 1. The
emergence of experiments in economics; 2. A laboratory experiment:
overview; Part II. Why? The Need for Experiments in Economics: 3. The need
for controlled experiments in empirical economics; 4. The need for
experimental methods in economic science; Part III. How? Laboratory
Experiments in Practice: 5. Designing an experiment: internal validity
issues; 6. Conducting an experiment; 7. The econometrics of experimental
data; Part IV. What For? What Laboratory Experiments Tell Us: 8. The
external validity of experimental results; 9. More accurate theory and
better public policies: the contributions of experimental economics.