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The essential ranking of decision rules in small panels of experts

Karotkin, Drora; Nitsan, Shemuʾel; Paroush, Jacob - 1988

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Why do people pay for useless advice?

Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Riyanto, Yohanes Eko - 2012

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Over-caution of large committees of experts

Midjord, Rune; Rodríguez Barraquer, Tomás; Valasek, Justin - 2013

We provide an explanation for why committees may behave over-cautiously. A committee of experts makes a decision on a … evidence and the best practices of the experts' common discipline, which is only indirectly related to the true state of the … dieser Innovation durch jeden Experten erfolgt auf der Grundlage dessen, was in der gemeinsamen Disziplin als allgemein …

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Credence goods, costly diagnosis, and subjective evaluation

Bester, Helmut; Dahm, Matthias - 2014

We study contracting between a consumer and an expert. The expert can invest in diagnosis to obtain a noisy signal about whether a low-cost service is sufficient or whether a high-cost treatment is required to solve the consumerś problem. This involves moral hazard because diagnosis effort and...

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First impressions matter : signalling as a source of policy dynamics

Hansen, Stephen; McMahon, Michael - 2011

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Can a bonus overcome moral hazard? : an experiment on voluntary payments, competition, and reputation in markets for expert services

Angelova, Vera; Regner, Tobias - 2017

Interactions between players with private information and opposed interests are often prone to bad advice and inefficient outcomes, e.g. markets for financial or health care services. In a deception game we investigate experimentally which factors could improve advice quality. Besides advisor...

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Algorithmic advice as a credence good

Biermann, Jan; Horton, John J.; Walter, Johannes - 2022

Actors in various settings have been increasingly relying on algorithmic tools to support their decision-making. Much of the public debate concerning algorithms - especially the associated regulation of new technologies - rests on the assumption that humans can assess the quality of algorithms....

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In vi(vi)no veritas? : expertise, review accuracy and reputation inflation

Janßen, Rebecca; Ribar, Matthew K. - 2024

Review systems including quantitative measures as well as text-based expression of experiences are omnipresent in today’s digital platform economy. This paper studies the existence of reputation inflation, i.e. unjustified increases in ratings, with a special focus of heterogeneity between...

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Firm responses to high-speed internet

Steimer, Henrike - 2020

Does access to the broadband internet stimulate firm growth? In this paper, I analyze within-firm growth of established firms caused by the access to faster internet using geocoded social-security data. I identify firm responses to the access to the first generation of broadband internet and...

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New approaches to measuring management and firm organization

Bloom, Nicholas; Van Reenen, John - 2010

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