Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers Creation-Date: 2006-09-27 Number: 06-081/1 Author-Name: Michelle Sovinsky Goeree Author-Email: Michelle.Goeree@ClaremontMcKenna.edu Author-Workplace-Name: Claremont McKenna College Author-Name: Jeroen Hinloopen Author-Email: j.hinloopen@uva.nl Author-Workplace-Name: Universiteit van Amsterdam Title: Cooperation in the Classroom: Experimenting with R&D Cooperatives Abstract: This discussion paper resulted in the article Journal of Economic Education (2008), 39(4), 357-373.

This paper describes a classroom experiment that illustrates the research and development investment incentives facing firms when technological spillovers are present. The game involves two stages in which student sellers first make investment decisions then production decisions. The classroom game can be used to motivate discussions of research joint ventures, the free-rider problem, collusion, and antitrust policy regarding research and development. Classification-JEL: C91; L13; L41 Keywords: classroom games; research and development; research joint ventures; technological spillovers File-Url: https://papers.tinbergen.nl/06081.pdf File-Format: application/pdf File-Size: 247473 bytes Handle: RePEc:tin:wpaper:20060081