A Research Agenda for Experimental Economics

Buch | Hardcover

264 Seiten

2021
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78990-984-5 (ISBN)

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Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.

Written by well-established researchers in behavioural economics, this Research Agenda illustrates the application of incentivised decision-making experiments, highlighting how this can add a new and novel dimension to social science research. Informative and timely, it explores how experiments are being used by pioneers in a diverse range of fields when research questions may not be amenable to field studies, vignettes or surveys.

Offering fruitful cross-disciplinary discussions, the chapters look at incentivised decision-making experiments in the study of: social norms, law and economics, environmental regulations, entrepreneurship, healthy behaviour, gender and leadership, political ideology, and neuroeconomics. Chapters provide an opportunity for experienced experimental economists to develop more innovative applications of their tools and scope for less experienced scholars to learn how to incorporate experiments in their research questions.

Researchers in economics, political science, sociology, as well as business and management will find this to be a beneficial read. Policy makers looking to understand how experimental tools and behavioural nudges are used to improve policy will also appreciate the key theoretical and practical applications of the topics offered in this Research Agenda.

Edited by Ananish Chaudhuri, Professor of Experimental Economics, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Contents:

1 Introduction to A Research Agenda for
Experimental Economics 1
Ananish Chaudhuri

PART I
2 An informational framework for studying social norms 19
James Tremewan and Alexander Vostroknutov
3 Experiments in law and economics 43
Alice Guerra
4 Complying with environmental regulations:
experimental evidence 69
Timothy N. Cason, Lana Friesen and Lata Gangadharan
5 Behavioural characteristics, stability of
preferences and entrepreneurial success 93
Pushkar Maitra and Ananta Neelim
6 Experimental evidence on behavioural nudges in health 119
John Gibson

PART II
7 The gender leadership gap: insights from experiments 137
Catherine Eckel, Lata Gangadharan, Philip J.
Grossman, and Nina Xue
8 Experiments in political psychology 163
Kyle Fischer, Quentin D. Atkinson, and Ananish Chaudhuri
9 Neuroeconomics 191
Sarah Cowie, Ian Kirk, and Olav Krigolson
10 Sleep and decision-making 213
David L. Dickinson

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Erscheinungsdatum	02.07.2021
Reihe/Serie	Elgar Research Agendas
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Mikroökonomie
ISBN-10	1-78990-984-8 / 1789909848
ISBN-13	978-1-78990-984-5 / 9781789909845
Zustand	Neuware