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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.

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Fischbacher, U. z-Tree: Zurich toolbox for ready-made economic experiments.Exp Econ 10, 171–178 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10683-006-9159-4

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• Received: 10 May 2006
• Revised: 30 November 2006
• Accepted: 11 December 2006
• Published: 07 February 2007
• Issue Date: June 2007
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10683-006-9159-4

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