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decision. We report results from lab experiments focused on such information-collection processes. We consider decisions … decision accuracies over time. Furthermore, groups using majority rule yield especially hasty and inaccurate decisions …
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We develop a dynamic model of board decision-making. We show that a board could retain a policy all directors agree is …
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Committees improve decisions by pooling independent information of members, but promote manipulation, obfuscation, and exaggeration of private evidence when members have conflicting preferences. We study how self-interest mediates these conflicting forces. When members' preferences differ, no...
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decision-makers in a hierarchical organization. We examine the role played by the architecture of a multi-tier authority and … bargaining sequence proceeds as a chain through decision-making agents, regardless of the hierarchy of the organization. We prove … the existence of a compromised equilibrium, where the decision of the authority is compromised, and establish sufficient …
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Collective decision making requires preference aggregation even if no ideal aggregation method exists (Arrow, 1950). We …
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We consider dynamic processes of coalition formation in which a principal bargains sequentially with a group of agents. This problem is at the core of a variety of applications in economics and politics, including a lobbyist seeking to pass a bill, an entrepreneur setting up a start-up, or a...
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I develop a model of (individually rational) collective reality denial in groups, organizations and markets. Whether participants' tendencies toward wishful thinking reinforce or dampen each other is shown to hinge on a simple and novel mechanism. When an agent can expect to benefit from other's...
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A central feature of dynamic collective decision-making is that the rules that govern the procedures for future … decision-making and the distribution of political power across players are determined by current decisions. For example … dynamic collective decision-making: (1) a social arrangement is made stable by the instability of alternative arrangements …
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In an earlier paper (Blinder and Morgan, 2005), we created an experimental apparatus in which Princeton University students acted as ersatz central bankers, making monetary policy decisions both as individuals and in groups. In this study, we manipulate the size and leadership structure of...
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not to be true there is no significant difference in average decision lags. Furthermore, and also surprisingly, there is … no significant difference in the decision lag when groups decisions are made by majority rule versus when they are made …
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