After presenting some casual evidence about the difference between economists and the rest of the population, first the survey and experimental evidence which has been presented on this topic during the last 20 years is discussed. But can these results really be transferred to real world...

A modelling strategy that accounts for measurement outside the laboratory, where one cannot base measurements on a single simple law, will have to drop the requirement that the model is a homomorphic mapping of the empirical relational structure. The model used for measurement will be a...

Economic laboratory experiments are often used for testing real-world economic mechanisms, such as multi-item auctions and multi-contract cost sharing. Ensuring that participants understand these increasingly complex tasks is crucial in order to maintain control, the reproducibility, and the...

In this chapter, we discuss the “lab-in-the-field” methodology, which combines elements of both lab and field experiments in using standardized, validated paradigms from the lab in targeting relevant populations in naturalistic settings. We begin by examining how the methodology has been...

Contemporary works, such as Lusk & Hudson's (2004), find that the greater knowledge regarding the possible results of the ultimatum game lead to results closer to the subgame perfect equilibrium. In this paper we seek to further this line of research beyond the fact of making the individuals...

This paper presents the results of a series of experiments in a simulated double-auction stock market driven by orders. It is shown that two small groups of traders should adopt a similar behavior when subjected to identical stimuli in the laboratory. To achieve this homogenous behavior, it is...

Opinion is divided on whether it is better to have a single world money or variable exchange rates.Pope, Selten and von Hagen (2003) propose that fresh light would be shed via an analysis that allows forseven complexity impacts on the exchange rate that are underplayed (where not entirely...

Many experimental studies report that economics students tend to act more selfishly than students of other disciplines, a finding that received widespread public and professional attention. Two main explanations that the existing literature offers for the differences found in the behavior...

For decisions in the wild, time is of the essence. Available decision time is often cut short through natural or artificial constraints, or is impinged upon by the opportunity cost of time. Experimental economists have only recently begun to conduct experiments with time constraints and to...

This paper proposes a way to empirically measure the impact of capabilities and functionings on the individual perception of urban quality of life. Specifically, we investigate the role played by amenities (including social interactions) and disamenities for a sample of 508 resident population...