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Laboratoire d'Economie Expérimentale de Strasbourg
Experiments in economics are used to study individual and/or collective behavior in a simplified and controlled economic environment. It can also help decision-making by evaluating the impact of different policy instruments (for example, public policies or a new industrial strategy) or bring about new facts and knowledge when theory is incomplete or non-existent. To carry out its experiments, the LEES has a computer room dedicated to experimentation which is composed of 3 servers and about thirty computer stations equipped with partition walls. The LEES also has a mobile laboratory composed of 50 iPads, a laptop acting as a web server and a mobile wifi point to carry out experiments outside of the laboratory with specific categories of the population (farmers, entrepreneurs, traders, start-up creators, young children, tribes in the mountainous regions of North Vietnam, etc.). It also has an accounting line for its activity as well as a control room for the payment of the subjects. This payment can now also proceed fully online for the experiments carried out over the Internet. Since 2012, the LEES has had an innovative web platform (www.econplay.fr) for teaching and research purposes, which now lies at the heart of its pedagogy system. Econplay currently has about fifty games intended for research and about ten games are added to the platform each year. EconPlay is also a multi-lingual pedagogical platform and its access is totally free for teachers and students willing to ground the acquisition of new knowledge in actual experiments (as opposed to, e.g., pure theory).
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