Bardsley, Nick, 1970-

Experimental economics : rethinking the rules / Nicholas Bardsley [and others]. - viii, 375 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-368) and index.

Theory testing and the domain of economic theory -- Experimental testing in practice -- Experiments in inductive generalization -- External validity -- Incentives in experiments -- Noise and variability in experimental data.

The authors explore the history of experiments in economics, provide examples of different types of experiments and show that the growing use of experimental methods is transforming economics into an empirical science. They explain that progress is being held back and debate on how to overcome these limitations.

0691124795 9780691124797

2009932364


Experimental economics

HB74.5 / .E97 2010

330.0724