Instrumentation: Experimental Economics Laboratory

这个项目装备了新的经济科学实验室（ESL）。实验室由40个学科决策站组成，在本项目下，将配备32台386型个人计算机和8台NeXT UNIX工作站以及支持单元和设备。在过去的十年中，ESL一直在为网络和其他技术复杂的协调市场设计新的“智能”计算机辅助拍卖的软件程序的开发中发挥着重要作用。这些应用包括天然气管道网络、电力网络、机场插槽的组合资源包装、木材权、调度问题、无线电/电视频谱许可等等。下一代基于计算机的实验性市场设计将需要每个站点的人类决策者得到专家系统的数据分析、优化和战略分析的支持。ESL已经开始使用借来的两个工作站进行这方面的开发和勘探规划和规划。计算机化实验项目包括：私人和共同价值拍卖；寡头垄断 竞争;排放许可证市场；金融市场设计；个人决策与市场；讨价还价;适应行为的神经模型；公共物品;市场营销和实验室实验。

This project equips the new Economic Science Laboratory (ESL). The laboratory consists of 40 subject decision stations, which under this project, would be equipped with 32 model 386 personal computers and 8 NeXT UNIX work stations plus support units and equipment. In the last decade ESL has been instrumental in the development of software programs for the design of new "Smart" computer assisted auctions for network and other technologically complex coordination markets. The applications include natural gas pipeline networks, electric power networks, and combinatorial resource packaging for airport slots, timber rights, scheduling problems, radio/TV spectra licenses, and many more. The next generation of computer based experimental market designs will require human decision makers at each station to be supported by expert systems for data analysis, optimization, and strategic analysis. Development and exploration planning and programming in this direction has already begun at ESL using two workstations acquired on loans. Computerized experimental projects include: private and common value auctions; oligopoly competition; markets for emission permits; financial market designs; individual decision making and markets; bargaining; neural models of adaptive behavior; public goods; marketing and laboratory experimentation.