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This paper explores how model-based reasoning might be characterized in terms of making experiments. I outline the characteristic steps of such model experiments or “experiments on models”, and apply the notions to a diagrammatic model in everyday use in economics. I compare these model experiments with two other kinds of experiments (using examples from the same economic domain): laboratory experiments and a hybrid form. This hybrid form involves simulations or “experiments with models”. The paper concludes with a comparison of the role that models play in each case.
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Morgan, M.S. (2002). Model Experiments and Models in Experiments. In: Magnani, L., Nersessian, N.J. (eds) Model-Based Reasoning. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0605-8_3
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