Diversity of Experimental Methods in Economics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kawagoe, Toshiji (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Takizawa, Hirokazu (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Behavioral economics.; Econometrics.; Economic history.; Statistics .; Behavioral/Experimental Economics.; History of Economic Thought/Methodology.; Statistics for Business, Management, Economics, Finance, Insurance.

This is the first book that examines the diverse range of experimental methods currently being used in the social sciences, gathering contributions by working economists engaged in experimentation, as well as by a political scientist, psychologists and philosophers of the social sciences. Until the...

Table of Contents:

• The performativity of economic experiments
• The use of experiments in economics and psychology: Historical perspective
• Controlled laboratory experiment in economics and induced value theory
• Experimental methods in behavioral game theory
• Statistical causal inference and the concept of causality
• RCT method in development economics
• Natural experiment and randomization in mechanism design
• The significance of simulation method in economics.