[For details, see: http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~josephw/experimental_19S.htm]

This is an upper division and graduate level course on experimental economics and political economy. In this course, we will start with a brief introduction of experimental economics, and then take a formal look at various environments where a group of individuals (committee, society, congress, etc.) makes a decision through some institutional mechanism (consensus, elections, jury deliberations, legislative bargaining etc.). These environments often coincide with real-world political institutions which we will study with the tools of (non-cooperative) game theory and experimental economics. We will try to critically understand varied aspects of political institutions through the lens of formal models in political economy.