An online recruitment system for economic experiments-英文文献.pdf

MPRA An Online Recruitment System for Economic Experiments Ben Greiner University of Cologne Department of Economics Abstract In this paper we introduce the Online Recruitment System for Economic Experiments (ORSEE). With this software experimenters have a free, convenient and very powerful tool to organize their experiments and sessions in a standardized way. Additionally, ORSEE provides subject pool statistics, a laboratory calendar, and tools for scientific exchange. A test system has been installed in order to visually support the reader while reading the paper.1 1See for a test system, downloads, and a complete manual. 1 1 Introduction Laboratory experimentation has been a growing field in economics for the last decades.2 But the more experiments have been conducted in economics, the more the issue of an appropriate methodology and organization has been raised. At the moment, there are the following items which are commonly agreed to be symptomatic for economic experiments (compared to human subject experiments in psychology and other social sciences): – Subjects are payed for their participation. – Payment should reflect subjects’ performance in the experiment, i.e. the strategy space should translate to the payoff space.3 – Subjects should be volunteers motivated by the experimenters’ payment. – Subjects should not be deceived. However, there is a wide variety in the procedures of maintaining a sub- ject pool and organizing experiments. In this paper we intro duce the Online Recruitment System for Economic Experiments (ORSEE), which aims – to simplify the organization of economic laboratory experiments, – to standardize the procedures of experiment organization, – to depersonalize the experimenter-sub