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"Applying experimental methods has become one of the most powerful and versatile ways to obtain economic insights, and experimental economics has especially supported the development of behavioral economics. The Art of Experimental Economics identifies and reviews twenty of the most important papers to have been published in experimental economics in order to highlight the power and methods of this area, and provides many examples of findings in behavioral economics that have extended knowledge in the economics discipline as a whole. Chosen through a combination of citations, recommendations by scholars in the field and voting by members of leading societies, the twenty papers under review - some by Nobel prize-winning economists - run the full gamut of experimental economics from theoretical expositions to applications demonstrating experimental economics in action. Also written by a leading experimental economist, each chapter provides a brief summary of the paper, makes the case for why that paper is one of the top twenty in the field, discusses the use made of the experimental method, and considers related work to provide context for each paper. These reviews quickly expose readers to the breadth of application possibilities and the methodological issues, leaving them with a firm understanding of the legacy of the papers' contributions. This text provides a survey of some of the very best research in experimental and behavioral economics and is a valuable resource for scholars and economics instructors, students seeking to develop capability in applying experimental methods, and economics researchers who wish to further explore the experimental approach. Gary Charness is Professor of Economics and the Director of the Experimental and Behavioral Economics Laboratory at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. Mark Pingle is Professor of Economics at the University of Nevada, Reno, USA."

Introduction; R. Mark Isaac and Carl Kitchens Chapter 1. Land-Assembly Experiments: A Survey; Javier Portillo Chapter 2. Laboratory Experiments of Land Assembly without Eminent Domain; Mark DeSantis, Matthew McCarter, and Abel Winn Chapter 3. Multi-offer Litigation: An Empirical Analysis of Alternative Mechanisms; Alexandros Sivvopoulos and Mark Van Boening Chapter 4. Not as I Do: Hypocrisy Aversion and Optimal Punishment of Common Offenses; Greg DeAngelo, Michael Makowsky, and Bryan McCannon Chapter 5. The Robustness of Lemons in Experimental Markets; Blake Dunkle, R. Mark Isaac, and Philip Solimine.

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