Experimental Economics


Experimental Economics publishes six issues a year. The journal’s website is at https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/experimental-economics  

The journal is fully open access beginning in 2025 and does not require a subscription.  

Paid membership in the ESA entitles you to receive the archive of all issues published in 2024 or earlier. 

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Editors' Prize for Best Paper

Since 2009, the ESA has awarded the Editors’ Prize for the best paper published in Experimental Economics each year.  The winner for a calendar year is announced at the World Meetings two years subsequently, so the award for 2024 will be announced at the 2026 World Meetings.


2023 

Xiaoxue Sherry Gao, Glenn Harrison and Rusty Tchernis, (2023). “Behavioral welfare economics and risk preferences: A Bayesian approach,” Experimental Economics 26(2), 273–303. DOI: 10.1007/s10683-022-09751-0 

2022
Jindrich Matousek, Tomas Havranek and Zuzana Irsova. "Individual discount rates: a meta-analysis of experimental evidence" Experimental Economics 25, 318–358 (2022). DOI: 10.1007/s10683-021-09716-9

2021
Kai Barron. (2021). Belief updating: does the ‘good-news, bad-news’ asymmetry extend to purely financial domains? Experimental Economics, 24(1), 31-58. DOI: 10.1007/s10683-020-09653-z

2020
Hanna Fromell, Daniele Nosenzo, and Trudy Owens. (2020) "Altruism, fast and slow? Evidence from a meta-analysis and a new experiment." Experimental Economics. 23(4), 979-1001. DOI: 10.1007/s10683-020-09645-z

2019
Alexander Coutts. (2019) “Good news and bad news are still news: experimental evidence on belief updating.” Experimental Economics. 22(2), 369-395.  DOI: 10.1007/s10683-018-9572-5

2018
Antonio A. Arechar, Simon Gächter and Lucas Molleman (2018) “Conducting interactive experiments online.” Experimental Economics. 21(1), 99-131. DOI: 10.1007/s10683-017-9527-2

2017
Guillaume Fréchette and Sevgi Yuksel. (2017) "Infinitely repeated games in the laboratory: four perspectives on discounting and random termination." Experimental Economics. 20(2), 279-308. DOI: 10.1007/s10683-016-9494-z

2016
Paolo Crosetto and Antonio Filippin. "A theoretical and experimental appraisal of four risk elicitation methods." *Experimental Economics* 19(3), 613-641 (2016). DOI: 10.1007/s10683-015-9449-7

2015
James C. Cox, Vjollca Sadiraj, and Ulrich Schmidt. "Paradoxes and Mechanisms for Choice Under Risk." Experimental Economics. 18(2), 215-250 (2015). DOI: 10.1007/s10683-014-9398-8

2014
Mikhail Drugov, John Hamman, and Danila Serra. (2014) “Intermediaries in corruption: an experiment. Experimental Economics. 17(1), 78-99. DOI: 10.1007/s10683-013-9358-8
Anna Dreber, Emma von Essen, and Eva Ranehill. (2014) “Gender and competition in adolescence: task matters.” Experimental Economics. 17(1), 154-172. DOI: 10.1007/s10683-013-9361-0

2013
Jon Anderson, Stephen V. Burks, Jeffrey Carpenter, Lorenz Götte, Karsten Maurer, Daniele Nosenzo , Ruth Potter, Kim Rocha, and Aldo Rustichini, (2013) "Self-selection and variations in the laboratory measurement of other-regarding preferences across subject pools: evidence from one college student and two adult samples." Experimental Economics. 16(2), 170-189. DOI: 10.1007/s10683-012-9327-7

2012
Thomas Buser and Noemi Peter. "Multitasking." Experimental Economics. 15(4), 641-655 (2012). DOI: 10.1007/s10683-012-9318-8

2011
John J. Horton, David G. Rand, and Richard J. Zeckhauser. (2011) "The online laboratory: conducting experiments in a real labor market." Experimental Economics. 14(3), 399-425. DOI: 10.1007/s10683-011-9273-9

2010
Daniel John Zizzo. "Experimenter Demand Effects in Economic Experiments." (2010) Experimental Economics. 13(1), 75-98. DOI: 10.1007/s10683-009-9230-z

2009
Glenn Harrison and Lisa Rutström. (2009) "Expected Utility Theory and Prospect Theory: One Wedding and a Decent Funeral." Experimental Economics. 12(2), 133-158 (2009). DOI: 10.1007/s10683-008-9203-7