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Course Outlines

Spring 2024 - ECON 828 G100

Experimental Methods in Economics (4)

Class Number: 2594

Delivery Method: In Person

Overview

  • Course Times + Location:

    Jan 8 – Apr 12, 2024: Mon, 2:30–4:20 p.m.
    Burnaby

    Jan 8 – Apr 12, 2024: Thu, 2:30–3:20 p.m.
    Burnaby

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

The course will deal with experimental methodology and design. A number of topics will be covered in the three main areas of experimental economics: markets, games and strategic interaction, and individual decision-making. Students will be expected to design and conduct their own experiments under the supervision of the instructor.

COURSE DETAILS:

This course is a graduate-level introduction to experimental economics. The course will be organized around topics where economics experiments have been particularly fruitful. This will focus our discussions of how to design, conduct, analyze, and interpret economics experiments, and interface between experiments and theory.

Topics:
Experimental Methods
Risk and uncertainty
Bracketing, framing, attention, and random choice
Strategic behaviour
Social decisions
Institutions
Further topics to be determined

Prerequisites:
Graduate status in economics or permission of the instructor.

Grading

  • Written Assignments 80%
  • Presentations and class discussion 20%

REQUIREMENTS:

Access to the internet and academic journals through the SFU Library website.

Materials

REQUIRED READING NOTES:

Your personalized Course Material list, including digital and physical textbooks, are available through the SFU Bookstore website by simply entering your Computing ID at: shop.sfu.ca/course-materials/my-personalized-course-materials.

Graduate Studies Notes:

Important dates and deadlines for graduate students are found here: http://www.sfu.ca/dean-gradstudies/current/important_dates/guidelines.html. The deadline to drop a course with a 100% refund is the end of week 2. The deadline to drop with no notation on your transcript is the end of week 3.

Registrar Notes:

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: YOUR WORK, YOUR SUCCESS

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Each student is responsible for his or her conduct as it affects the university community. Academic dishonesty, in whatever form, is ultimately destructive of the values of the university. Furthermore, it is unfair and discouraging to the majority of students who pursue their studies honestly. Scholarly integrity is required of all members of the university. http://www.sfu.ca/policies/gazette/student/s10-01.html