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This paper studies experimentally when and how ideological motives shape outcomes in group decision-making scenarios …
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political appointment influences voting behavior. -- decision making in committees ; minority voting ; policy preferences …
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, because the economics literature on group decision making has, so far, assumed homogeneity within groups. In a lab experiment …
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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,...
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team projects. …
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Human decision-making differs due to variation in both incentives and available information. This generates substantial … challenges for the evaluation of whether and how machine learning predictions can improve decision outcomes. We propose a … decision maker payoff functions and predictive skill. We apply our framework to the major health policy problem of improving …
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Extending the die rolling experiment of Fischbacher and Föllmi-Heusi (2013), we compare gender effects with respect to unethical behavior by individuals and by two-person groups. In contrast to individual decisions, gender matters strongly under group decisions. We find more lying in male...
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, regardless of the team decision rule. Overall, teams yield higher payoffs than individuals. … models typically assume an individual rational decision maker. A rapidly growing body of (experimental) literature … investigates team decisions in different settings. We study team decisions in a public goods contribution game with a costly …
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. When coordinating their compliance decision teams predominately discuss the risk of getting caught in an audit, and team … decision-making is characterized by behavioral spillovers between team members. Holding each team member fully liable is a …In today's business environment, team work is omnipresent. But might teams be more prone toward non-compliance with …
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We introduce "group cohesion" to study the economic relevance of social relationships in team production. We …
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