Target audience: PhD students and faculty from all disciplines

This course provides an introduction to experimental methods in social sciences and in particular in economics. We will discuss different types of experiments, reaching from classical laboratory experiments to class room, online and field experiments. This will be done with a focus on applications to, among others, market behavior, social preferences, public policy, bounded rationality and biases in expectations. A focus will be on design that enables discrimination between different behavioral channels.

Format
3 days, with two 90 min lectures each day (10:00-12:00 and 13:00-15:00 on 1, 8 and 10 February)

Exam
All are welcome to attend the course. Those PhD students who want to obtain 3 ECTS points for the course should submit a worked out experimental design (max 10 pages), for a research question related to social sciences. The paper should be submitted 4 weeks after the course.

About the lecturer
Dirk Engelmann is an widely cited distinguished scholar in Experimental Economics. His research covers various topics, including social preferences, belief biases, auctions, and taxation. It has been published in leading journals such as the American Economic Review, Econometrica, The Economic Journal, Games and Economic Behavior. He is co-editor of the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization and member of the editorial board of the American Economic Review and the Economic Journal.

More about Dirk Engelmann

Registration

Please register no later than 27 January 2017 via webshop

Contact
Alexander Koch, akoch@econ.au.dk

Administrative support
Susanne Christensen, sch@econ.au.dk