Research laboratory : Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences : University of Hamburg

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Welcome to the WISO Faculty's Research Lab!

The WISO Research Lab offers comprehensive services for planning, designing, and implementing experiments and surveys as well as for basic research in the social sciences and economics. Our central task is to provide professional research resources that meet the highest scientific standards.

Our services:

30 cabins for economic experiments as well as a large pool of student participants
35 VoIP-CATI spaces (incl. predictive dialers) for teaching purposes and projects financed from faculty budgets
40 WLAN-enabled 2-in-1 notebooks for field experiments and CAPI surveys

Aktuelles

24 January 2022|WiSo-FL-en

Changes in the operation of the research laboratory

Based on the budget data for 2019, Department 7 updated the full cost calculation for the WISO Research Laboratory in 2020. In particular, the classification of the laboratory as a commercially operationg business ("Betrieb gewerblicher...

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6 May 2021|WiSo-FL-en

Cooperation with BUE in Cairo launched for synchronous experiment implementation

The "Experimental and Behavioural Economics Laboratory" (EBEL) at the British University of Egypt (BUE) in Cairo, Egypt, started operations with a kick-off event on 25 February 2021.

Since the set-up of the laboratory in Cairo is based on the standards of the WiSo research laboratory at the UHH, simultaneous experimental...

6 June 2019|WiSo-FL-en

Mailing List Set Up for Digital Methods Unit

The WiSo research laboratory has recently started offering a mailing list for those interested in our "Digital Methods" service. Here you will find the link for registration and further information.

Archive of current news

Experimental Lab

The WISO Experimental Lab provides researchers with a wide range of services—from software consulting and organizing experiment sessions to providing payouts and assistants. We look forward to supporting you prepare your experiment: please contact us!

By participating in social scientific and economic experiments, the Experimental Lab offers students hands-on insights into everyday research. Further information on participating in experiments.

hroot

hroot is the WISO Research Lab's organizational tool for economic experiments. Students can register with their email address in hroot and we will contact them to invite them to take part in paid experiments. Participation in these experiments is, of course, voluntary.
In hroot researchers can check availability of the Research Lab and monitor attendance of their experiment sessions.

hroot registration for students

Survey Lab

Would you like to conduct telephone interviews, online surveys, or paper-based surveys? At the WISO Survey Lab we are happy to advise and support you when you program CATI, CAPI, CAWI, and PAPI surveys and, if required, provide you with our team of student interviewers.

Did you get a call from the WISO Research Lab and want to know why? Or you just want to find out more about the Research Lab in general? Here you will find further information about our research and what we do: