This study attempts to experimentally capture the effects of reforming intellectual property (IP) and measure whether abolishing IP after a vote can reduce the creativity of the most talented innovators. Subjects start in a baseline setting with IP, and then move to a second unannounced phase in...

This paper exploits a large dataset of replications of the Holt and Laury (2002) risk elicitation task to study a possible outcome reporting bias using gender differences in risk attitudes. There is a strong consensus view in the experimental literature according to which women are more prudent...

We study conditional cooperation based on a sequential two-person linear public good game in which a trusting first contributor can be exploited by a second contributor. After playing this game the first contributor is allowed to punish the second contributor. The consequences of sanctioning...