Experimental Economics : Method and Applications (Hardcover)

Part I. What Is It? An Introduction to Experimental Economics: 1. The emergence of experiments in economics; 2. A laboratory experiment: overview; Part II. Why? The Need for Experiments in Economics: 3. The need for controlled experiments in empirical economics; 4. The need for experimental methods in economic science; Part III. How? Laboratory Experiments in Practice: 5. Designing an experiment: internal validity issues; 6. Conducting an experiment; 7. The econometrics of experimental data; Part IV. What For? What Laboratory Experiments Tell Us: 8. The external validity of experimental results; 9. More accurate theory and better public policies: the contributions of experimental economics.