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Ideological motives and group decision-making
Engl, Florian - 2020
This paper studies experimentally when and how ideological motives shape outcomes in group decision-making scenarios …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012383716
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Minority positions in the German council of economic experts : a political economic analysis
Potrafke, Niklas - 2013
political appointment influences voting behavior. -- decision making in committees ; minority voting ; policy preferences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009732996
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Collective intertemporal decisions and heterogeneity in groups
Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2019
, because the economics literature on group decision making has, so far, assumed homogeneity within groups. In a lab experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012029172
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Voting in hiring committees : which "almost" rule is optimal?
Baharad, Eyal; Danziger, Leif - 2018
We determine the scoring rule that is most likely to select a high-ability candidate. A major result is that neither the widely used plurality rule nor the inverse-plurality rule are ever optimal, and that the Borda rule is hardly ever optimal. Furthermore, we show that only the almostplurality,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011789019
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Supply chain reliability and international economic growth : impacts of disruptions like COVID-19
Goel, Rajeev K.; Saunoris, James W.; Goel, Srishti S. - 2020
importance, formal research on the contribution of supply chain logistics, including the relative impacts across different … logistics dimensions, is less. The importance of supply chains has been recently been brought to the forefront in the wake of … examine the relative effects of the different aspects of supply chain logistics on economic growth. Placing the empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012219347
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Optimal conservatism and collective monetary policymaking under uncertainty
Hefeker, Carsten; Zimmer, Blandine - 2014
We study how the optimal degree of conservatism relates to decision-making procedures in a Monetary Policy Committee … varies according to the number of MPC members, the MPC's composition as well as its decision rule. Moreover, we find that … extra central bank conservatism is required when there is ambiguity about the MPC's true decision rule. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010391838
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Container trade and the U.S. recovery
Kilian, Lutz; Nomikos, Nikos K.; Zhou, Xiaoqing - 2021
Since the 1970s, exports and imports of manufactured goods have been the engine of international trade and much of that trade relies on container shipping. This paper introduces a new monthly index of the volume of container trade to and from North America. Incorporating this index into a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550202
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Give me your best shot! : diffusion of complete versus booster Covid-19 vaccines across US counties
Goel, Rajeev K.; Nelson, Michael A. - 2023
This paper compares drivers of full COVID-19 vaccinations and booster doses across U.S. counties. Booster doses are contingent upon someone receiving the primary doses, and the risk attitudes and propensities to get vaccinated may be different across individuals, along with the supply chain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014313479
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How do migrants choose their destination country? : an analysis of institutional determinants
Geis, Wido; Übelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - 2008
For a long time, migration has been subject to intensive economic research. Nevertheless, empirical evidence regarding the determinants of migration still appears to be incomplete. In this paper, we analyze the effects of socio-economic and institutional determinants, especially labor-market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003805994
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Flipping a coin : theory and evidence
Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea; Weizsäcker, Georg - 2014
We investigate the possibility that a decision-maker prefers to avoid making a decision and instead delegates it to an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010340311