Master
Experimental Economics
- Course number: 10145600
- Level: Master
- Semester: Winter
- Language: English
- Credits: 5 ECTS
About the course
Over the past decades, experiments have become an essential tool in modern empirical economics. Researchers, companies, governments, and non-governmental organizations increasingly adopt experimental methods for an evidence‐based approach to management, research, and public policy.
This course offers an in-depth overview of the methods and applications of experimental economics. We will cover the essential aspects and challenges in designing economic experiments, discuss a range of practical applications, and examine how academics, managers and policy-makers can benefit from controlled experiments.
In the course, students will also learn how to design an economic experiment and apply experimental techniques to address a research question or policy problem. Working in small teams, students will design, carry out and evaluate their own laboratory or field experiment. The results of the group projects will then be presented and discussed with the other course participants.
