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Edward Chamberlin's Foundational Market Experiments
To test whether prices in a market naturally adjust to balance supply and demand, economists conduct controlled laboratory experiments. The first of these was performed by Edward Chamberlin at Harvard in 1948. In his annually repeated experiment, he assigned students roles as either 'buyers' or 'sellers' and provided each with a private valuation card indicating their willingness to pay or reservation price. Participants were then allowed to bargain freely, with all resulting trades being recorded. Vernon Smith, who participated as a student in 1952, was inspired by this work to conduct his own influential experiments, for which he later won a Nobel Prize.
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