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Banking on Experiments?

Number: 534
Year: 2014
Author(s): Martin Dufwenberg
How can laboratory experiments help us understand banking crises, including the usefulness of various policy responses? After giving a concise introduction to the field of experimental economics more generally, I attempt to provide answers. I discuss methodological issues and survey relevant work that has been done.

Keywords: banking crises, lab experiments
JEL codes: C92, G21