Field Experiment on Incentive of Compilation and Behavioral Evaluation in Peer Review System

We set up a Web Bulletin Board System 1 (BBS) in the U.S. in 2008 and in Japan in 2007 and experimented whether an incentive ∗Takuya Nakaizumi, Associate Professor, Kanto Gakuin University, and Visiting Scholar, UC San Diego International Relations and Pacific Studies, [email protected], Mitsuharu Watanabe, Professor, Kanto Gakuin University, [email protected] : 150-1 Mutsurahigashi, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama-city, 236-8501, Japan, Preliminary version, We are grateful to Masahiro-Okuno Fujiwara, Hideshi Itoh, Tatsuo Tanaka, Dan Sasaki, Masuyuki Nishijima for helpful comments and Lubor Jelinek for English proof reading. All mistakes are belonging to Authors. The support of the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in Japan and The Japan Securities Scholarship Foundation are also gratefully acknowledged. 1A Bulletin Board System, or BBS, is a computer system running software that allows users to connect and log in to the system using a terminal program. Once logged in, a user can perform functions such as uploading and downloading software and data, reading