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Economics in the Laboratory

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Smith, Vernon L

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The questions addressed in this paper include: What is a laboratory experiment? What are the reasons why economists conduct such experiments? What have we learned? Among the many findings of experiments are included: institutions (the rules of exchange) matter; optimization in markets is not achieved by conscious calculation; less information is sometimes better; common information is not sufficient to yield common 'knowledge' or expectations; underrevelation is compatible with efficiency; and fairness is a matter of tastes or expectations. Also discussed is the methodological role of experiments in contributing to our knowledge of how things work. Copyright 1994 by American Economic Association.

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Volume (Year): 8 (1994)
Issue (Month): 1 (Winter)
Pages: 113-31
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