Guillaume Frichette

Handbook of Experimental Economic Methodology - Handbooks of Economic Methodology Guillaume Frichette

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: PART ONE: IS EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMICS LIVING UP TO ITS PROMISE? 1. Is Experimental Economics Living Up to Its Promise?Alvin E. Roth PART TWO: THE RELATIONSHIP OF ECONOMIC THEORY TO EXPERIMENTS2. The Relationship of Economic Theory to ExperimentsDavid K. Levine and Jie Zheng 3. On the Relationship Between Economic Theory and ExperimentsAndrew Schotter 4. Enhanced Choice ExperimentsAndrew Caplin and Mark Dean 5. Intelligent Design: The Relationship of Economic Theory to Experiments: Treatment driven ExperimentsMuriel Niederle Shorter Papers and Comments: 6. The Interplay between Theory and ExperimentsLeeat Yariv 7. Maxims for ExperimentersMartin Dufwenberg 8. What is an Economic Theory That Can Inform Experiments?Uri Gneezy and Pedro Rey-Biel PART THREE: PSYCHOLOGY AND ECONOMICS: A COMPARISON OF METHODS 9. The 1-800 Critique, Counter-Examples, and the Future of Behavioral EconomicsIdo Erev and Ben Greiner 10. A General Model for Experimental Inquiry in Economics and Social PsychologyJ. Keith Murnighan 11. Psychology and Economics: Areas of Convergence and DifferenceTom R. Tyler and David Amodio Shorter Papers and Comments: 12. The Hammer and the ScrewdriverGary Charness 13. Discussion of "Psychology and Economics: Areas of Convergence and Difference"Theo Offerman PART FOUR: THE LAB AND THE FIELD Reprint What Do Laboratory Experiments Measuring Social Preferences Reveal About the Real World?Steven D. Levitt and John A. List 14. The Promise and Success of Lab-Field Generalizability in Experimental Economics: A Critical Reply to Levitt and ListColin F. Camerer 15. Theory, Experimental Design and Econometrics Are Complementary (And So Are Lab and Field Experiments) Glenn W. Harrison, Morten Lau, and E. Elisabet Rutstrom 16. Laboratory Experiments: The Lab in Relationship to Field Experiments, Field Data and Economic TheoryJohn H. Kagel 17. Laboratory Experiments: Professionals versus StudentsGuillaume R. Frechette Shorter Papers and Comments: 18. The External Validity of Laboratory Experiments: The Misleading Emphasis on Quantitative EffectsJudd Kessler and Lise Vesterlund 19. The Lab and the Field: Empirical and Experimental EconomicsDavid Reiley 20. On the Generalizability of Experimental Results in EconomicsOmar Al-Ubaydli and John A. List"Biographical Note: Guillaume R. Frechette is Associate Professor of Economics at New York University. Andrew Schotter is Professor of Economics at New York University and Director of NYU's Center for Experimental Social Science."Publisher Marketing: The Handbook of Experimental Economic Methodology, edited by Guillaume R. Frechette and Andrew Schotter, aims to confront and debate the issues faced by the growing field of experimental economics. For example, as experimental work attempts to test theory, it raises questions about the proper relationship between theory and experiments. As experimental results are used to inform policy, the utility of these results outside the lab is questioned, and finally, as experimental economics tries to integrate ideas from other disciplines like psychology and neuroscience, the question of their proper place in the discipline of economics becomes less clear. This book contains papers written by some of the most accomplished scholars working at the intersection of experimental, behavioral, and theoretical economics talking about methodology. It is divided into four sections, each of which features a set of papers and a set of comments on those papers. The intention of the volume is to offer a place where ideas about methodology could be discussed and even argued. Some of the papers are contentious---a healthy sign of a dynamic discipline---while others lay out a vision for how the authors think experimental economics should be pursued. This exciting and illuminating collection of papers brings light to a topic at the core of experimental economics. Researchers from a broad range of fields will benefit from the exploration of these important questions."

Contributor Bio:  Schotter, Andrew Andrew Schotter is Professor of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, at New York University and Director of the Center for Experimental Social Science. Professor Schotter received his BS degree from Cornell University and his MA and PhD degrees from New York University. His areas of special interest in teaching are microeconomic theory, game theory, and experimental economics. His areas of special interest in research are applications of game theory to economics, microeconomics, experimental economics, and theories of economic and social institutions. These interests are reflected in the many articles that Professor Schotter has contributed to economics journals and in the books he has written and edited. In addition to MICROECONOMICS: A MODERN APPROACH, he is the author of FREE MARKET ECONOMICS: A CRITICAL APPRAISAL and THE ECONOMIC THEORY OF SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS. Professor Schotter's wide-ranging professional activities also include serving as a member of the editorial board of the AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW AND EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMICS and as an associate editor for GAMES AND ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR; doing consulting work for businesses and financial institutions; giving testimony before the Joint Economic Committee of the U. S. Congress on the cost of the tort system; and serving as a visiting scholar at the University of Paris, the University of Venice, the Institution for Advanced Studies in Vienna, and the Russell Sage Foundation and Tel Aviv University. In 1993 he received the Kenan Enterprise Award for his contributions to the economic theory of free markets. Professor Schotter is married to Anne Howland Schotter, a professor of English Literature at Wagner College in New York. They have two children, Geoffrey and Elizabeth, who have lent their names to the two archetypes of economic agents in the model society their father created to illustrate microeconomic theory in this book.