Experimental Economics: methods and applications

English

teaching
experiments
behavior
Author

P. Crosetto

Published

January 1, 2023

Grenoble Turin Milan

The course

A full course on experimental economics with an eye to its applications to behavioural public policy. Starting from the epistemology of experiments, the course covers a series of applied topics where economic experiments allow researchers to test theories, measure traits and preferences, elicit value and beliefs, identify biases, and test behavioral policies in the lab or in the field. Applications cover risk and belief elicitation, context effects and choice processes, energy and environmental interventions, and food labeling.

This course changed along the years and can be adapted to the level of the students – Masters or PhD – and in the topics that are dealt with – more theoretical and foundational or more applied, to energy, environment, nutritional policies…

Milan

Here I share the latest iteration, delivered to colleagues in Milan in November 2025, with a focus in nutritional labels.

Session 1: Why experiments? – slides

Session 2: Value elicitation – slides

Session 3: Consumer behaviour – slides

Session 4: Nutritional labels – slides

Turin

In Turin, to master students, I also focus on hands-on sessions where we run experiments and analyze data. Here are the slides for the hands-on sessions

Hands-on session 1: value elicitation via BDM – slides

Hands-on session 2: risk elicitation – slides

Hands-on session 3: attraction effect – slides

Grenoble

In Grenoble, I also focused on market games, social dilemmas, and environmental economics applications

Markets - slides

Social Dilemmas – slides

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