Understanding Experimental Economics

Experimental Economics: A Revolution in Understanding Behaviour

2 The Burgundy Reports are synthesis documents written by CIRANO researchers on issues of general interest. Their aim is to encourage discussion and public debate on current issues. CIRANO is a multidisciplinary interuniversity centre of research. Its mission is to accelerate the transfer of knowledge between researchers and organizations. The observations and viewpoints expressed in this publi...

Children's understanding of economics

Economics is often used as a label for that part of the social world concerned with the acquisition, management, and distribution of assets (e.g., buying, borrowing, bargaining, banking), and for the most part this convenient approach is taken here. But it is inevitable, given that the concept of economic behaviour is culturally and historically determined, that the boundary between the economi...

Experimental Methods in Economics *

Experimental Economics: Where Next?

Where should experimental economics go next? This paper uses the literature on inequity aversion as a case study in suggesting that we could profit from tightening up our act. Experimental Economics: Where Next? by Ken Binmore and Avner Shaked1

Essays in Experimental Economics

This paper tests whether people can exercise self-control in limiting consumption of unwanted food and whether they can pre-empt their future lack of self-control by restricting the availability of food. An experiment was conducted with Stanford University undergraduates over a period of 7 weeks in which some participants were given a fixed number of candies by the experimenter and other partic...