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We study the choice of a principal to either delegate a decision to a group of careerist experts, or to consult them … individually and keep the decision-making power. Our model predicts a trade-off between information acquisition and information …
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Many important intertemporal decisions are made by groups rather than individuals. What happens to collective decisions when there is internal conflict about the tradeoff between present and future has not been thoroughly investigated so far. We study experimentally the causal effect of group...
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of efficient coordination has focused on individual decision-making so far. In reality, however, teams often have to … ; individual decision-making ; team decision-making ; experience-weighted attraction learning ; experiment …
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"Among economists, there is increased recognition of the role individuals' identities play in decision-making. In this …
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We study cooperation within and between groups in the laboratory, comparing treatments in which two groups have previously been (i) in conflict with one another, (ii) in conflict with a different group, or (iii) not previously exposed to conflict. We model conflict using an inter-group Tullock...
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difficult version. Implications are drawn on when to employ groups rather than individuals in decision making. …
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We study the impact of team decision making on market behavior and its consequences for subsequent individual … specific, performance feedback. Some teams even perform better than the best individuals. The experience of team decision …
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. Besides making choices, decision makers have to state their first- and second-order beliefs. We find that teams play the Nash … only 40% for individuals. -- Strategic sophistication ; beliefs ; experiment ; team decision making ; individual decision …
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In this paper, we examine the determinants of decision-making power by children and young adolescents. Moving beyond … of parental control of child behavior and child resistance. Using child reports of decision-making and psychological and … cognitive measures from the NLSY79 Child Supplement, we examine the determinants of shared and sole decision-making in seven …
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We examine the strategic sophistication of adolescents, aged 10 to 17 years, in experimental normal-form games. Besides making choices, subjects have to state their first- and second-order beliefs. We find that choices are more often a best reply to beliefs if any player has a dominant strategy...
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