A Laboratory Experimental Investigation of Institutional Influences on Political Economic Processes

该项目继续开发和应用 实验室的实验方法在广泛的政治领域 经济和管理行为的原则， 相互依赖和不断变化的系统开始于早期的NSF 补助金。 将加强对 复杂系统的相互依赖和动态行为，以及 新的体制安排， 利用信息和减少不确定性。 这 项目将发挥领导作用，采用实验方法 作为当前制度变革类型的试验台， 作为对联合国所提出的挑战的回应， 全球环境变化。 该项目也将做出贡献 我们对决策方式的理解 具有不可逆性和潜在灾难性的不确定性 对子孙后代的影响。 研究项目可以分为五类：1） 主要侧重于各组织活动的相互依存性， （2）以信息为核心的经济活动; 3）那些更狭隘地关注 市场中发生的均衡; 4）那些涉及 新机构的"试验性";以及5）实验技术 发展 实验技术发展研究 尤其令人兴奋，因为它将使一个复杂的 实验系统能够支持非常广泛的 实验免费提供给广大的研究人员。 根据上一笔赠款，制作了一本手册和磁盘， 为计算机化的实验室市场系统传播。 的 软件包包括创建和执行实验的程序， 用于查看和处理数据的程序，以及用于 训练科目。 技术开发工作现在将 转向具有政治因素的进程。 因为政治是 经常是关于机构和过程的选择， 新的软件应该能够促进实验， 哪一种制度的演变可以发生。

This project continues the development and application of laboratory experimental methods in the broad field of political economy and on the principles that govern the behavior of interdependent and changing systems begun under earlier NSF grants. There will be an intensified focus on the interdependence and dynamic behavior of complicated systems, and on new institutional arrangements that facilitate the efficient use of information and the reduction of uncertainty. This project will play a leadership role in using experimental methods as testbeds for the types of institutional changes currently under consideration as a response to the challenges posed by global environmental change. This project will also contribute to our understanding of the way decisions are made under uncertainty with irreversibilities and potentially catastrophic consequences for future generations. Research projects can be grouped into five categories: 1) those that focus primarily on the interdependence of activities of economic processes; 2) those in which information plays a central role; 3) those that focus more narrowly on the properties of equilibria that occur in markets; 4) those that involve the "testbedding" of new institutions; and 5) experimental technology development. The research on experimental technology development is especially exciting because it will make a sophisticated experimental system capable of supporting a very wide range of experiments freely available for a broad audience of researchers. Under the previous grant a manual and diskette were produced and disseminated for a computerized laboratory market system. The package included programs for creating and executing experiments, programs for viewing and processing data, and programs for training subjects. The technology development effort will now turn to processes with political elements. Since politics is frequently about the choices of institutions and processes, any new software should be capable of facilitating experiments in which institutional evolution can take place.