Abstract
Economic experiments are a source of valuable data about economic decision making. Although a lot of experiments exist, there are few experiments done where the subjects face complex decision tasks.
Inventory management problems in supply chain management represent such complex decision tasks because of their time delay and nonlinearities.
The published experiments on inventory management in supply chains are reviewed and some of the design problems of these experiments are discussed. The paper especially focuses on incentives, presentation effects and concreteness of the experiment.
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Kunze, J. (2006). Design Problems of Complex Economic Experiments. In: Spiliopoulou, M., Kruse, R., Borgelt, C., Nürnberger, A., Gaul, W. (eds) From Data and Information Analysis to Knowledge Engineering. Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-31314-1_60
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