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Recent years have seen an enormous
increase and interest in research utilizing experimental methods in the
field to address both positive and normative issues in economics and
management. The special issue on Using Field Experiments in Economics
and Management aims to collect high quality and innovative work
utilizing these methods that addresses questions in economics, management
and related areas.
Papers utilizing experimental methods from the field
from economics, management and related areas such as accounting, finance
and the psychology of decision-making are welcome, including but not
limited to:
Natural field
experiments in which subjects are observed in their naturally occurring
environments.
Framed
field experiments that are identical to laboratory experiments but with
field context in either the commodity, task or information set that
subjects use.
Papers reporting
findings from laboratory experiments utilizing non-standard subject
pools.
Only papers utilizing experimental methods in the
field will be considered. The papers will be evaluated on the
applicability to broad topics of relevance in economics, management, and
related fields, the quality of the work, and the significance of the research.
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