Designing economic experiments for evaluation purposes

The growing popularity of experimentation in economics has widened the scope for economic experiments. In this paper we question the relevance of experimental methods for economic impact assessment. The major issue of impact evaluation is answering a counterfactual question. We show that the economi...

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Main Author: Marc Willinger
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Published: Universidade Estadual de Campinas 2012-07-01
Series:Revista Brasileira de Inovação
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Online Access:http://www.ige.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/rbi/article/view/537