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Expert advice is often biased in ways that benefit the advisor. We demonstrate how self-deception helps advisors be … privately evaluating the investments. Consistent with self-deception, learning about the incentive before evaluating the options … affects advisors' beliefs and preferences over the investments. Biased advice persists with minimal justifications but is …
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We study the interaction between algorithmic advice and human decisions using high-resolution hotel-room pricing data … interest with the algorithmic advisor. A model of advice with costly price adjustments shows that, in equilibrium, algorithmic …
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Many decisions in politics and business are made by teams rather than by single individuals. In contrast, economic models typically assume an individual rational decision maker. A rapidly growing body of (experimental) literature investigates team decisions in different settings. We study team...
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This study measures the differences in ambiguity attitudes of groups and individuals in the gain and loss domain. We elicit the ambiguity attitudes and ambiguity-generated insensitivity for natural temperature events. We do not find significant differences between individuals and groups in our...
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Many decisions are interactive; the outcome of one party depends not only on its decisions or on acts of nature but also on the decisions of others. In the present article, we review the literature on decision making made by groups of the past 25 years. Researchers have compared the strategic...
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We consider a model where agents differ in their ‘types' which determines their voluntary contribution towards a public good. We analyze what the equilibrium composition of groups are under centralized and centralized choice. We show that there exists a top-down sorting equilibrium i.e. an...
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Many important intertemporal decisions, such as investments of firms or households, are made by groups rather than individuals. Little is known what happens to such collective decisions when group members have different incentives for waiting, because the economics literature on group decision...
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This paper studies experimentally when and how ideological motives shape group decision-making outcomes. Groups repeatedly decide between a monetarily preferred outcome that generates a high payoff but also an ideologically undesirable externality, or an ideologically preferred outcome that...
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Many decisions are interactive; the outcome of one party depends not only on its decisions or on acts of nature but also on the decisions of others. In the present article, we review the literature on decision making made by groups of the past 25 years. Researchers have compared the strategic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013111990
same rules. This paper makes the case for embedded supervision, ie a regulatory framework that provides for compliance in … requirements that would promote low-cost supervision and a level playing field for small and large firms. …
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