ECON 545 Experimental Economics
Experimental economics studies economic and social behavior in a controlled laboratory or field environment. The course covers the methodology of experimental economics and its application to testing and analyzing various economic and social institutions and environments and the incentives they create. The course content includes a comprehensive overview of the existing literature in experimental and behavioral economics. The students will both participate in experiments first-hand in order to gain an in-depth understanding of experiment design and will design their own experiments as part of their research and evaluation projects.