The Laboratory of Behavioural and Experimental Economics has been launched at the Poznan University of Life Sciences. The unit enables the experimental verification of economic theories and the study of market and consumer behaviour under controlled conditions.
The laboratory is equipped with state-of-the-art equipment for neuroeconomics research (EEG and eye-tracker), equipment for testing players’ behaviour using game theory (a set of synchronised computers with software for analysing participants’ decision-making in a specific decision-making situation presented in the form of an economic game with “real payoffs”) and a focus room designed for obtaining qualitative data in the form of group interviews.
The results of the experiments conducted there are used to test as well as better understand economic theories and can guide the introduction or reform of policy instruments, reports the university.
