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Preface | p. vii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Experiments in Economics | p. 1 |
Does Economics Need Experiments? | p. 4 |
The Practice of Experimental Economics | p. 11 |
The Illustrations and the Structure of the Book | p. 23 |
Methods, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science | p. 36 |
Theory Testing and the Domain of Economic Theory | p. 46 |
Domain Restrictions: Economic Theory and the Laboratory | p. 46 |
Generality and External Validity | p. 49 |
The Blame-the-Theory Argument | p. 54 |
The Concept of Domain | p. 56 |
The Laboratory and the Three Senses of Domain | p. 64 |
Application to Experimental Tests of Choice Theory | p. 71 |
Application to Experimental Tests of Equilibrium Predictions | p. 85 |
Conclusions | p. 92 |
Experimental Testing in Practice | p. 95 |
Preliminaries | p. 95 |
Experimental Testing and the Duhem-Quine Thesis | p. 95 |
On the Significance of the DQT for Testing | p. 106 |
On Testing Game Theory | p. 114 |
Hard Cores, Progress, and Experiments | p. 128 |
Conclusion | p. 138 |
Experiments and Inductive Generalization | p. 141 |
Preliminaries | p. 141 |
Deduction versus Induction | p. 142 |
How Inductive Investigation Works | p. 145 |
Experiments as Tests | p. 150 |
Exhibits | p. 156 |
Why Be Interested in Exhibits? | p. 160 |
Do Exhibits Need to Be Explained? | p. 166 |
Multiple Causation | p. 169 |
Explaining Exhibits Inductively | p. 172 |
Investigating Exhibits without Trying to Explain Them | p. 184 |
Experiments as Models | p. 189 |
Conclusion | p. 194 |
External Validity | p. 196 |
Introduction | p. 196 |
Are Economics Experiments Models? | p. 197 |
Tests of Applied Economics Theories | p. 204 |
Types of Artificiality Criticism | p. 214 |
Alteration Contrasted with Omission and Contamination | p. 228 |
Evaluating Alteration Criticisms | p. 233 |
Field Experiments | p. 237 |
Conclusions | p. 242 |
Incentives in Experiments | p. 244 |
Preliminaries | p. 244 |
Incentives, Design, and Control | p. 246 |
Incentives in Experimental Economics: Convention in Action | p. 248 |
Three Perspectives on the Effect of Incentives on Behavior | p. 250 |
Incentive Mechanisms | p. 264 |
Conclusion | p. 284 |
Noise and Variability in Experimental Data | p. 286 |
"Noise" in Economics and in Experimental Economics | p. 286 |
"Noise" in Individual Decision Experiments | p. 289 |
"Noise" in Experimental Games | p. 306 |
Exploring Different Stochastic Specifications | p. 322 |
Concluding Remarks | p. 329 |
Conclusion | p. 331 |
How Successful Has Experimental Economics Been in Developing a Sound Methodology? | p. 332 |
How Successful Has Experimental Economics Been in Increasing Understanding of Economic Behavior? | p. 338 |
Has Experimental Economics Had a Positive Impact on Wider Economics? | p. 342 |
References | p. 347 |
Index | p. 369 |
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