INTRODUCTION TO GAME THEORY        

Class Experiment

experimental instructioNS  

experimental comments       

experimental RESULTS 2014   

history of experimental results 2003-2014  

Preliminary Readings

*Druckman J.N., D.P. Green, J.H. Kuklinski and A. Lupia (2006) “The growth and development of experimental research in political sciences”, American Political Science Review, 100, 627-635.

*Morton R.B. and K.C. Williams (2010) Experimental Political Science and the Study of Causality. From Nature to the Lab, Cambridge University Press, New York, Chapter 1.

*Friedman, D. and S. Sunder (1994) Experimental methods. A primer for economists, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, chapt. 1-2-3.

Course references

*Camerer, C. F., G. Loewenstein, and D. Prelec (2005) “Neuroeconomics: How Neuroscience Can Inform Economics”, Journal of Economic Literature, XLIII, 9-64.

*Davis, D.D. and C.A. Holt (1993) Experimental Economics, Princeton University Press, Princeton, Chapt. 1-2. 

*Friedman, D. and S. Sunder (1994)  Experimental methods. A primer for economists, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, Chapt. 1-2

*Friedman, D and A. Cassar (2004) Economics Lab. An intensive course in experimental economics, Routledge, London and New York, Chapt. 2-3

*Innocenti, A., A. Rufa and J. Semmoloni (2010) "Overconfident behavior in informational cascades: An eye-tracking study", Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics, 3, 74-82.

*Kahneman, D. (2011)  Thinking, Fast and Slow, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York

*Smith, V. (1994) “Economics in the Laboratory”, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 8, 113-131.

*Morton R.B and K.C. Williams (2010) Experimental Political Science and the Study of Causality. From Nature to the Lab, Cambridge University Press, New York, Chapt. 13.

*Thaler, R. H. and C. R. Sunstein, Nudge. Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, Yale University Press 2008.