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z-Tree: Zurich toolbox for ready-made economic experiments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

Urs Fischbacher
Urs Fischbacher*
Affiliation:
Institute for Empirical Research in Economics, Blümlisalpstrasse 10, CH-8006 Zurich
*
e-mail: fiba@iew.unizh.ch
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Abstract

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z-Tree (Zurich Toolbox for Ready-made Economic Experiments) is a software for developing and conducting economic experiments. The software is stable and allows programming almost any kind of experiments in a short time. In this article, I present the guiding principles behind the software design, its features, and its limitations.

Keywords

ExperimentExperimental software

JEL classification

C92: Laboratory, Group Behavior

Information

Type
Research Article
Information
Experimental Economics , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , June 2007, pp. 171 - 178
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This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0), which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
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Copyright © 2007 Economic Science Association

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