Experiments have become a valuable tool in Economics and Information Systems research. Nearly all fields of the economic discipline use experiments to verify theoretical predictions and to identify cause-effect relationships. Besides being used for empricial validation, this method is applied in political and strategic consulting. The lecture gives an introduction to experimental methods in Economics and in the Information Systems research domain, and shows differences to experiments in natural sciences. Scientific studies are used to show exemplary applications.

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