The formation of the centre enables the interested academicians to come together in a coordinated fashion and pool their skills to give a thrust to skill formation and research in the area of experiments in social sciences, especially economics.

The centre will concentrate on the following activities:
• Identify problems in economics and other social sciences where experimental methods can be used and conduct research in these areas
• Publish working papers and monographs for the dissemination of research information
• Conduct training workshops for young faculty members and researchers to acquaint them in the methods and techniques of experimental economics
• Host visiting researchers from other institutions in India and abroad and build collaborative research programmes across institutions
• Conduct policy studies on subjects of current interest and controversy and share the findings with policy makers, para-statals and governments.