Experimental Economics Laboratory Instrumentation

在国家科学基金会的支持下，Jason Shachat博士和Vincent Crawford博士将在圣地亚哥的加州大学建立一个实验经济学实验室。在系统的核心，16个Pentium 233 MHZ工作站（配有128 MB RAM）将被连接并放置在一个房间内，其配置确保每名受试者的物理隔离。该实验室将实现两个目标：1。为教职员及学生提供进行实验经济学研究所需的设施; 2.允许将实验经济学技术纳入本科生和研究生的课堂教学。 近年来，经济学家采用实验方法来深入了解人类的决策行为。受试者参与精心设计的决策练习，并根据结果的质量获得金钱或其他奖励。这些实验往往侧重于研究真实的世界贸易机构的业绩以及不同激励方案对个人行为的影响。一个主要的研究方向是涉及多重均衡、全球不稳定均衡和严重财富效应的交换经济体的机构绩效，这是Shachat博士目前工作的重点。克劳福德博士将进行一系列实验，旨在研究战略环境中认知和行为之间的关系。这项研究将解决有关战略行为的问题，以及它在多大程度上反映了球员的分析，他们的环境作为一个游戏，考虑到结构和其他球员的激励。 位于圣地亚哥的加州大学目前缺乏一个实验经济学实验室，新设施将被广泛使用。除了研究之外，它还将作为本科生和研究生课程的教学设备。实验室练习，直接涉及学生在经济实验提供了经济原理的实际演示，并激发对该主题的兴趣。因此，实验室的基础设施影响将是巨大的。

With National Science Foundation support, Drs. Jason Shachat and Vincent Crawford will establish an experimental economics laboratory at the University of California, San Diego. At the core of the system 16 Pentium 233 MHZ workstations with 128 MB RAM will be linked and placed in a single room, configured to ensure sufficient physical isolation of each subject. The laboratory will achieve two objectives: 1. provide the necessary facilities for faculty and students to conduct research in experimental economics; 2. allow the incorporation of experimental economics techniques into undergraduate and graduate classroom instruction. In recent years, economists have adopted experimental approaches to gain insight into human decision making behavior. Subjects participate in carefully designed decision making exercises and receive monetary or other rewards in proportion to the quality of the resulting outcomes. The experiments tend to focus on studying the performance of real world trading institutions and the effects of different incentive schemes on individual behavior. One major line of research to be pursued involves institutional performance in exchange economies with multiple equilibria, globally instable equilibrium and severe wealth effects and this is a current focus of Dr. Shachat's work. Dr. Crawford will conduct a series of experiments designed to examine the relationship between cognition and behavior in strategic environments. This research will address questions about strategic behavior and the extent to which it reflects players' analyses of their environment as a game, taking the structure and other players' incentives into account. The University of California at San Diego currently lacks an experimental economics laboratory and the new facility will be widely used. In addition to research, it will serve as a teaching device for both undergraduate and graduate classes. Laboratory exercises which directly involve students in economic experiments provide practical demonstrations of economic principles and stimulate interest in the subject. Thus the infrastructural impact of the laboratory will be significant.