WHAT'S TO KNOW ABOUT LABORATORY EXPERIMENTATION IN ECONOMICS?

• Published in: Journal of economic surveys Vol. 25; no. 2; pp. 371 - 379
• Main Author: Feltovich, Nick
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.04.2011; Wiley-Blackwell
• Subjects: Analysis; Economic research; Economic theory; Experimental economics; Experiments; Feldforschung; Field experiments; Incentives; Laboratory experiments; Meta-Analyse; Meta-analysis; Methodology; Participant observation; Research methodology; Studies; Subject pool; Test; Wissenschaftliche Methode

Experimental economics has grown as a discipline from near non‐existence 50 years ago to a full‐fledged field within economics in the present. Much of experimental economics research involves experimental methods as a tool, applied to problems in other fields of economics. However, some of this rese...