Survey of results and methods of laboratory experiments in economics and actual experiments. Experiments dealing with individual decision making will be followed by experiments dealing with interactive decision making. Discussion of experiments on public goods, coordination problems, bargaining, auctions and other issues, and also of experiments which test more basic assumptions on rational behavior. Part of the course devoted to the theoretical background which motivates these experiments. Prerequisite: Econ 4011 and SDS 2200 (formerly Math 2200).
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