Academic Catalog

ECON617 EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMIS

Course Code: 3110617
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 8.0
Department: Economics
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Graduate
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Offered Semester: Fall Semesters.
Prerequisite: Set 1: 3110101
Set 2: 3110201
Set 3: 3110203
One of the sets above should be completed before taking ECON617 EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMIS .

Course Content

This course is a graduate level Experimental Economics course. After introducing a few basic concepts related to experimental methods, and we will dig into important applied microeconomics fields, like, compensation schemes, (dis)honesty in economic interactions, bargaining experiments, shraing/fairness experiments, experiments on agriculture, field experiments, etc. (With Week 6 we will start a specific area in applied microeconomics. This year, it is about dishonesty).