Muriel Niederle

Graduate Experimental Economics 279

Fall 2009-20010

"Taking a course in experimental economics is a little like going to dinner at a cannibal's house. Sometimes you will be the diner, sometimes you will be part of the dinner, sometimes both." (Bergstrom and Miller)

Here is the syllabus, which is subject to change depending on how the class progresses. I’ll update it regularly, so you can download the papers that are otherwise hard to get. If you have problems finding any of the other ones (and you have looked at JSTOR) email me.

Lecture 1:

Introduction

Endowment Effect

Lecture 2:

Preferences and Choice

Lecture 3:

More of choices (slides from above)

Incentives

Lecture 4

More of incentives

Minimum Game

Guessing Game

Lecture 5

More of Guessing Game

Nash Bargaining

Homework 1: read Jim Andreoni and Charles Sprenger, “Estimating Time Preferences with Convex Budgets” and prepare a referee report. Send it to me, and cc it to Charles Sprenger, who may be interested in what you have to say.

Lecture 6: Wednesday Oct 7: Guest Lecture: Charles Sprenger (UCSD)

Slides

Jim Andreoni and Charles Sprenger, “Estimating Time Preferences with Convex Budgets”

Jim Andreoni and Charles Sprenger, “Risk Preferences Are Not Time Preferences”

Lecture 7:

More of Nash Bargaining

Self-Serving Bias

Sequential Bargaining Part 1

Lecture 8: Guest Lecture: Guillaume Frechette: Legislative Bargaining

Spatial Voting

Legislative Bargaining

Lecture 9: More of Guillaume Frechette: Legislative Bargaining, and More of Bargaining