Questions tagged [experimental-economics]
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Does it matter if your decision might not matter?
I have read several experimental papers which ask people to make decisions which only matter with a certain probability. For example, individuals might be asked to submit bids in an auction, but told that their bids only 'count' with a certain…
Itzhak Rasooly
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Is sending fake resumes deception?
Economists generally frown on deception. For example, the journal Experimental Economics does not publish papers which use deception. However, I know that famous economics studies have been published where people send fake resumes to employers (to…
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Is it possible to maintain economic equality in a society?
If the governor (or administrator) of a small town decides to keep the town economically equal by taking away the wealth of all residents and then redistributing it equally among the residents. In such a social experiment, will the town continue to…
Riq
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Market-2001 software used in Gode and Sunder (1993)
I am reading Gode and Sunder (1993). They study the allocative efficiency of markets using a double auction mechanism where both humans and zero-intelligence computer programs are present as buyers and sellers.
There they have used the "Market-2001"…
Ishan Kashyap Hazarika
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How to obtain standard surveys / measures to use at end of experiment to "control for altruism" etc?
When running an economics experiment, how and where are experimental graduate students supposed to obtain the surveys (such as standard measures of altruism, risk aversion, social dominance...) that often come at the end of experiments (so that…
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