Experimental Economics 2400-M2EE

These classes are experimental economics workshops and are intended for people who want to know the experimental approach in economics and are going to use experimental methods in their research (eg in a master's thesis). This course is also a way to present economic knowledge based on experimental methods. Presented economic issues have also a didactic value and can be used by students as a method of presenting economic knowledge through experience.

Suggested topics for experiments:

1) Testing the rationality paradigm
2) How does the market work? Double Oral Auction of Vernon Smith
3) Monopoly and price discrimination
4) Oligopolistic competition
5) Models of product competition of the Hotelling model
6) Auctions
7) Public Goods
8) External effects and mechanisms limiting the effects of their occurrence

Szacunkowy nakład pracy studenta:
Typ aktywności K (kontaktowe) S (samodzielne)
zajecia kowersatiorim 30 0
przygotowanie projektu zaliczeniowego 25
konsultacje 10 0
przygotowanie do zajęć 0 10
Razem 40 35 = 75

Mandatory reading:
• Kagel J.H., Roth A.E., 1995, Handbook of Experimental Economics, Princeton University Press
• Oda S.H. (red), 2007, Developments on Experimental Economics, New Approaches to Solving Real-world Problems, Springer

Supplementary literature:
• Guala F., 2005, The Methodology of Experimental Economics, Cambridge University Press