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Concept and Inference Based on Experiments in Economics

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Selected Issues in Experimental Economics

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The chapter concerns the concept of experimentation in economics. The perspective of economic methodology is taken as a starting point for the experiment design. Then types of experiments are discussed along with their advantages and disadvantages. The role of the concept of causality in experimentation in economics is pointed out. A natural experiment is of our main interest. Hence, the methods of inference within natural experiments are briefly discussed. Some examples illustrate the methodological background.

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  1. Department of Economics, Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Gagarina 13a, 87-100, Toruń, Poland

    Jerzy Boehlke

  2. Department of Econometrics and Statistics, Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Gagarina 13a, 87-100, Toruń, Poland

    Magdalena Osińska

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  1. Institute of IT in Management, University of Szczecin, Mierzyn, Poland

    Kesra Nermend

  2. Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland

    Małgorzata Łatuszyńska

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Boehlke, J., Osińska, M. (2016). Concept and Inference Based on Experiments in Economics. In: Nermend, K., Łatuszyńska, M. (eds) Selected Issues in Experimental Economics. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28419-4_4

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