This paper reports the results of an experimental wine auction. Participants of the experiment were randomly assigned to three rooms. In each room four wines had to be evaluated, but the level of information to which participants had access differed across rooms. After the evaluations, the wines...

The book proposes an overview of the research conducted to date in the field of wine economics. All of these contributions have in common the use of econometric techniques and mathematical formalization to describe the new challenges of this economic sector.

Social experiments are characterized by their high cost. A tempting alternative to the establishment of a contemporaneous statistical control group is preexempt observat ion of the treatment group. In this paper, the authors analyze the tr ade-off between these two types of "con-trol" as...