Handbook of Experimental Methodology

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-0-443-31758-3
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Technology

Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

This handbook provides an in-depth review of cutting-edge methodologies in experimental economics. It explores various methods for eliciting preferences and beliefs in both static and dynamic settings, encompassing individual and group behavior across different techniques and diverse sample pools. Additionally, it highlights recent advances in econometrics and replication strategies. The handbook serves as a comprehensive reference for scholars interested in conducting experimental research in the lab, through surveys, or in the field.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Yariv, Leeat

Snowberg, Erik

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie Wirtschaftsgeographie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Erik Snowberg and Leeat Yariv
1. Evaluating experimental designs
Erik Snowberg and Leeat Yariv
2. Preference elicitation: common methods and potential pitfalls
Jonathan Chapman and Geoffrey Fisher
3. Belief elicitation: a user’s guide
Paul J. Healy and Greg Leo
4. Communication in games
Marina Agranov
5. Repeated games
Guillaume R. Fréchette, Emanuel Vespa, and Sevgi Yuksel
6. Lab experiments in developing country contexts
Sara Lowes and Nathan Nunn
7. Designing survey experiments
Gregory Huber and Matthew H. Graham
8. The methods and value of measuring choice processes in economics experiments
Isabelle Brocas, Colin Camerer, Juan D. Carrillo, and Ian Krajbich
9. Experimenting with networks
Arun G. Chandrasekhar and Matthew O. Jackson
10. Recent developments in the econometrics of randomized controlled trials
Federico A. Bugni and Yichong Zhang
11. Running replicable experiments
Lucas C. Coffman and Anna Dreber

Über Autor(innen)

Snowberg, Erik
Erik Snowberg is the Mariner S. Eccles Presidential Professor at the University of Utah, a Research Fellow of the Munich Society for the Promotion of Economic Research (CESifo), and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University-Graduate School of Business and was a professor of Economics and Political Science at Caltech. Before moving to the University of Utah, he was the Canadian Excellence Research Chair and co-founder and Scientific Director of The Centre for Innovative Data in Economics Research at the University of British Columbia. Snowberg's research is primarily about measurement, which he has applied in the study of experimental design, politics, prediction markets, pharmaceuticals, and development economics. Snowberg is currently a co-editor of the Journal of Public Economics, and a member of the editorial board of the American Economic Review.

Yariv, Leeat
Leeat Yariv is the Uwe E. Reinhardt Professor of Economics at Princeton University, a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and the Munich Society for the Promotion of Economic Research (CESifo), and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University and has held positions at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Caltech prior to her move to Princeton, where she is the founder and director of the Princeton Experimental Laboratory for the Social Sciences (PExL). Yariv's research utilizes experiments to study questions in political economy, market design, and social and economic networks. Yariv is currently a co-editor at Econometrica and has served as the lead editor of the American Economic Journal: Microeconomics. She has additionally served on various journal editorial boards, including the American Economic Review, Econometrica, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Economic Literature, and Quantitative Economics. Yariv is a fellow of the Econometric Society, the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, and the Game Theory Society. She is also an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.