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WiSo-Experimentallabor

Welcome to the WISO Experimental Lab

The WISO Experimental Lab provides comprehensive services for social science and economic experiments, in particular, software consulting and tests; organization of experiment sessions; provision of material for experiments; assistance with accounting formalities; and recruitment and provision of assistants for experiments.  By taking part in social science and economic experiments, students gain insight into the fields of research in which teaching staff are working.

The WISO Experimental Lab provides students with software packages z-Tree and oTree for their experiments. We would be happy to help you prepare your experiment. Contact us!(forschungslabor.wiso"AT"uni-hamburg.de)

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Booking an experiment

Do you want to perform an economic experiment in the WISO Experimental Lab? Find out more about what we offer here and contact us!

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Information for participants

Do you have any questions about participating in experiments, data protection, or experiment procedure? For more information as well as a layout plant of the WISO Research Lab, read the

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hroot for Researchers

hroot is a web application which was developed in Hamburg to manage experiment participants. Find out about hroot's functions and send us a license application, if you want to use hroot for your Research.

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hroot

Would you like to participate in economic experiments in the WISO Research Lab? If so, please register in hroot, the Hamburg registration and organization online tool.

All experiments are remunerated at an average of approx. €12 per hour.

Experimentallabor

The Experimental Lab

Contact

WISO Research Lab
Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences
Von-Melle-Park 5 (Stairway C), Room 2155
20146 Hamburg

Our services

  • programming and consulting on economic experiments in z-tree and o-tree
  • software tests, test subject pool, and recruiting in hroot
  • experiment management and lab support
  • data protection, collection, and archiving
  • costs, esp. processing of payout
  • portable economic in-the-field lab with 40 test subject places and 1 server place
  • centrally integrated heart rate measurements for up to 40 test subjects simultaneously