In important conflicts such as wars and labor-management disputes, people typically rely on the judgment of experts to predict the decisions that will be made. We compared the accuracy of 106 forecasts by experts and 169 forecasts by novices about eight real conflicts. The forecasts of experts...

This paper examines the financial decisions made by companies, the strategies that organizations follow, the alignment between these two variables, and the relationship of financial decisions to the level of competitiveness. Two hundred two businesses' testimonies in the region of Celaya were...

Managers sometimes sacrifice profits only to improve their relative competitive standing, a behaviour that is known as “competitive irrationality.” Previous research has generated a wealth of insight into the general foundations of this often dysfunctional type of managerial decision making....

The rise in education of women relative to men is an emerging worldwide phenomenon in recent decades. This paper investigates the impact of the birth control policies on teenage girls' education attainment. The estimates suggest that the policies explain 30 percent of the education increase for...