A Systems View Across Time and Space
Table 1 Overview on reviewed experiments
Field of research | Short title | Type of task | Subjects’ task in the experiment |
|---|---|---|---|
Intellectual property rights | Buchanan and Wilson 2014 | Real effort search task | Producing and trading rivalrous and non-rivalrous goods composed of colors |
Meloso et al. 2009 | Real effort search task | Solving the knapsack problem and trading the potential components | |
Buccafusco and Sprigman 2010 | Creative task | Creating and trading poems | |
Crosetto 2010 | Creative task | Creating and extending words and deciding whether to use IP protection | |
Brüggemann et al. 2015 | Creative task | Creating and extending words, setting license fees | |
Financial instruments | Brüggemann and Meub 2015 | Creative task | Creating and extending words, setting license fees |
Brüggemann 2015 | Creative task | Creating and extending words, setting license fees | |
Payment schemes | Eckartz et al. 2012 | Real effort search task | Combining as many words as possible from 12 given letters |
Ederer and Manso 2012 | Real effort search task | Managing a virtual lemonade stand | |
Erat and Gneezy 2015 | Creative task | Solving rebus puzzles | |
Bradler 2015 | Creative task | Imagining unusual uses for items | |
R&D competition | Isaac and Reynolds 1988 | Investment task | Taking investment choices under competition |
Isaac and Reynolds 1992 | Investment task | Taking investment choices including the game bingo | |
Sbriglia and Hey 1994 | Search task | Finding a letter combination by buying different letter trails under competition | |
Zizzo 2002 | Investment task | Competing for a prize over several periods | |
Silipo 2005 | Investment task | Accumulating “knowledge units” under risk and competition | |
Cantner et al. 2009 | Search task | Searching for product specifications of a car including investment and competition | |
Aghion et al. 2014 | Investment task | Competing for finding an innovation including investment and risk |