Our study compares individual and team bidding in standard auction formats: first-price, second-price and ascending …-price (English) auctions with independent private values. In a laboratory experiment, we find that individuals overbid more than …

conflict makes national diversity more salient among existing and potential team members. I exploit this natural experiment to …, the world’s largest hosting platform for software projects, I estimate the causal impacts of a political conflict that … burst out between Russia and Ukraine in 2014. I find that the conflict strongly reduced online cooperation between Russian …

Existing theoretical and experimental studies have established that unanimity is a poor decision rule for promoting … responsibility for the committee's decision is equally distributed across all agents. We test our predictions in a controlled … laboratory experiment. As predicted, if unanimity is required, subjects are more truthful, respond more to others' messages, and …

decision-making process of hiring committees within a large private company. In the hiring process, committee members first … decision. We find that committees' final hiring decisions are systematically less aligned with the initial recommendations of …

We test the effects of dual processing differences in both individual traits and decision states on risk taking. In an … experiment with a large representative sample (N = 1,832), we vary whether risky choices are induced to be based on either … emotion or reason, while simultaneously measuring individual decision-making traits. Our results show that decision …

We present a simple model to illustrate how birthplace diversity may affect team performance. The model assumes that … different instrumental variable approaches to identify the effect of birthplace diversity on team performance. Our findings … suggest that an intermediate level of birthplace diversity maximizes team performance. …

-gender teams perform better. We investigate the two explanations in a lab experiment with students and in an online experiment with … others reveal that subjects expect the effect of the gender stereotypes of tasks but underestimate others' bets on diversity. …

objective facts. A political decision involving both idiosyncratic preferences and scientific knowledge is considered. Voters …