Workshop on Teaching Economics
with Computerized Experiments
Held in conjunction with the
71st Midwest Economics Association Annual Meeting
at the Minneapolis Hilton
Room Conrad D
Thursday, March 22, 2007, 8:15 AM-5:00 PM
(MEA sessions begin on March 23)
Time | |
8:15 – 9:00 | Continental breakfast |
9:00 – 9:30 | Introduction to Experimental Economics, its role in teaching, and EconPort |
9:30 – 10:30 | Homegrown Demand and Supply experiments |
10:30 – 10:45 | Break |
10:45 – 12:00 | Competitive market experiments |
12:00 – 1:00 | Lunch |
1:00 – 2:00 | A taxation experiment, and discussion of other market experiment variations (price controls, alternative trading institutions, market power). |
2:00 – 2:45 | Public goods experiments |
2:45 – 3:00 | Break |
3:00 – 3:45 | Game theory experiments |
3:45 – 4:45 | Practice setting up computerized experiments |
4:45 – 5:00 | Conclusion |