Experimental Economics: methods

Course Description:

The main goal of this course is to provide a comprehensive overview of the experimental methodology. At the end of the course, student should have acquired the set of basic tools which are necessary to understand the existing experimental literature, and to assess the strengths and weaknesses of an experimental paper.

This course is open to graduate students enrolled in either EDLE or Ph.D in Economics and it targets students that are interested in the experimental literature, either because they plan to run experiments as a part of their research project, or because they would like to be able to read with a critical view the experimental literature available in their area of specialization.

Participation to the course does not require any prior knowledge of the field, but a basic background in statistics and econometrics would help.