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Thank you. All right, as I said and there are two final things that I want to ask you guys. The first one is about disagreements. I think we have been a very jolly bunch and, I’m happy to say, nobody quarreling with one another much. But it seems to me there are some notable disagreements associated with experimental economics happening over the years and I can identify at least two different sorts of disagreements. Disagreements between experimental economists are fairly vocal, for example the debate about misbehavior in first price auctions would come to mind.
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Kagel was the president of the ESA from 2005 to 2007.
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Georg von Bekesy (1960): “Another way of dealing with [experimental research] errors is to have friends who are willing to spend the time necessary to carry out a critical examination of the experimental design beforehand and the results after the experiments have been completed. An even better way is to have an enemy. An enemy is willing to devote a vast amount of time and brain power to ferreting out errors both large and small, and this without any compensation. The trouble is that really capable enemies are scarce; most of them are only ordinary. Another trouble with enemies is that they sometimes develop into friends and lose a good deal of their zeal. It was in this way that the writer lost his three best enemies.” Békésy, Georg von. 1960. Experiments in Hearing. New York: McGraw-Hill. Von Bekesy (1899–1972) In 1961, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on the mammalian hearing organ.
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Reference to a board game Dungeons and Dragons, where the dungeon master owns a collection of dices. Rolling a dice can be used to play a mixed strategy in experimental games.
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Svorenčík, A., Maas, H. (2016). History and Future. In: Svorenčík, A., Maas, H. (eds) The Making of Experimental Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20952-4_7
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