Experimental economics and social psychology share an interest in a widening subset of topics, relying on similar lab-based methods to address similar questions about human behavior, yet dialogue between the two fields remains in its infancy. We propose a framework for understanding this disconnect: The different approaches the disciplines take to translating real-world behavior into the labora...

WEHIA 2005, the 10th anniversary of the pre-eminent agent-based computational economics (ACE) conference held at the University of Essex, marks a hide tide of theACEmethodology and of experimental economics. This Special Issue contains seven papers selected for their innovative quality, and for clarity and rigour in their presentation. Till recently, analytical and econometric modelling tools w...

We discuss four key variables of experimental design that tend to be realized quite differently in economics and in areas of psychology relevant to both economists and psychologists, such as judgment and decision making. On theoretical and empirical grounds, we argue that these different realizations, which concern enactment of scripts, repetition of trials, performancebased monetary payments, ...

Computing the average 'effect', the difference in means of the dependent variable between conditions, is by far the most common way of analyzing experimental data. In many settings, however, the proportion of people individually exhibiting the effect in question (or the opposite one) is of interest also. This paper puts forward an assumption-free and computationally efficient algorithm that est...

[1] Learning, words and actions: experimental evidence on coordination-improving information JOB MARKET PAPER (with Nicolas Jacquemet), CES Working Paper 2010.64, conditionally accepted at The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics; Presentations: SIMA seminar at Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne, Paris, 2010; 6th Economic Behavior and Interaction Models Joint Workshop, Paris, 2010; 6th Internati...

Writing a textbook on philosophy of economics presents some hard challenges. Neither philosophy nor economics is sufficiently defined and circumscribed to make an overview easy. The nature of philosophy is currently quite contested. The naturalism movement exemplified by Quine now competes with a very traditional, conceptual-analysis trend that gives limited place to science (and thus by implic...