Experimental Economics Center, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies

ExCEN, the EXperimental Economics CENter, was founded in 2006 to support research, teaching, and policy applications involving controlled experiments with human decision makers. Professor James C. Cox is the founding director of the Center.

The Center's central objective is to promote the development and application of economics and related academic disciplines as empirical social science. Ongoing research in the Center involves development of economic theory supported by data.

Teaching and research support facilities developed and maintained by the Center include the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies experimental economics laboratory and EconPort, an economics digital library recently featured in the Netwatch section of Science. External funding is provided by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. Core support comes from the Georgia Research Alliance and the state government.

ExCEN will host the conference on Experiments for Export? Behavioral Experiments in Latin America co-sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Latin American Studies Association, April 19 – 23, 2012.

ExCEN and CEAR are organizing FUR XV: International Conference on Foundations and Applications of Utility, Risk and Decision Theory to be held at Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia USA, June 30 - July 3, 2012

ExCEN director, James C. Cox gave a Plenary Lecture
at the
2011 North American Meeting of the Economic Science Association.

ExCEN director, James C. Cox is Past-President of the Southern Economic Association. The 82nd Annual Meeting of SEA will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Experimental Economics Seminars
Academic Year 2011 - 2012

September 21	Uzi Segal Boston College "On the Likelihood of Cyclic Comparisons"
October 28	David J. Cooper Florida State University "The Gift of Advice: Communication in a Bilateral Gift Exchange Game"
November 15	Zhen Lei Southwestern University of Finance and Economics "Can Official Rank Standard Affect Individuals’ Behavior in China? – A Framing Effect Investigation"
April 19	Marco Castillo George Mason University "Gender Differences in Bargaining Outcomes: A Field Experiment on Discrimination"

Experimental Economics Seminars
Academic Year 2010 - 2011

October 22	John Duffy University of Pittsburgh "Equilibrium Selection in Static and Dynamic Entry Games"
October 29	Peter P. Wakker Erasmus University "The Impact of Experiments on the Economic Thinking about Risk Aversion and Preferences"
February 18	Myrna Wooders Vanderbilt University "Share Equilibrium in Local Public Good Economies"
April 1	Arno Riedl Maastrict University "Efficient coordination in weakest-link games"

Experimental Economics Seminars
Academic Year 2009 - 2010

September 28	Angelino C. G. Viceisza International Food Policy Research Institute "An experiment on the impact of weather shocks and insurance on risky investment"
October 3	Elisabet Rutström University of Central Florida "Can virtual reality make experiments more policy relevant?"
October 9	Daniel Houser George Mason University "Competition for Trophies Triggers Male Generosity"
November 9	Tibor Neugebauer University of Luxembourg "Moral Impossibility in the Petersburg Paradox: A Literature Survey and Experimental Evidence"
January 12	Jason Shachat Xiamen University "Procuring Commodities: Request for Quote or Reverse Auctions?"
February 12	Bart J. Wilson Chapman University "An Experimental Economic History of Whalers’ Rules of Capture"
March 19	Justin Esarey Emory University "A Formal Test of Substantive Significance"

ExCEN Distinguished Lecture Series
Academic Year 2008 - 2009

December 5, 2008

Charles R. Plott
California Institute of Technology
"Electronic Bushbroker Exchange: Designing a Combinatorial Double Auction for Native Vegetation Offsets"

Experimental Economics Seminars
Academic Year 2008 - 2009

September 5	James C. Cox Georgia State University "Is There a Plausible Theory for Decision Under Risk"
November 7	Daniel Friedman University of California at Santa Cruz "Humans, Robots and Market Crashes: A Laboratory Study"
January 9	John Wooders University of Arizona "Does Experience Teach? Professionals and Minimax Play in the Lab"
February 2	Erin L. Krupka IZA - Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn, Germany "Identifying Social Norms Using Coordination Games:Why Does Dictator Game Sharing Vary?"
February 4	Douglas Norton Florida State University "Endogenous Production Technology in a Public Goods Enterprise"
February 11	Ulrich Schmidt University of Kiel "Errors, Splitting Effect, and Violations of Independence"
February 18	David M. Bruner Appalachian State University "Be My Guinea Pig: Information Spillovers in a One-Armed Bandit Game"
March 20	Yan Chen University of Michigan "Social Comparisons and Contributions to Online Communities: A Field Experiment on MovieLens"
April 30	Jan Tuinstra University of Amsterdam "The Overcharge as a Measure for Antitrust Damages"

ExCEN Distinguished Lecture Series
Academic Year 2007 - 2008

October 17,
2007

Peter P. Wakker
Erasmus University and Maastricht University
"Improving Rational Insurance Decisions by Providing Clients with Risk Information"

Experimental Economics Seminars
Academic Year 2007 - 2008

September 7	Kurt E. Schnier University of Rhode Island "Common Property, Information and Cooperation: Commercial Fishing in the Bering Sea"
September 14	Monica Capra Emory University "Neurobiological Probability Weighting over Losses"
March 21	Tim Salmon Florida State University "Market Power and Risk Sharing Contracts"
April 7	Bodo Vogt University of Magdeberg "Indirect Partner Interaction in Peer-to-Peer Networks: Stimulating Cooperation by Means of Structure"
April 10	Catherine Eckel University of Texas at Dallas "Encouraging Giving: Subsidies in the Field"
April 18	Jean-Louis Rulliere Université Lumière Lyon 2 "Monitoring Optimistic Agents"