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Using a real-effort experiment, we study whether group identity affects unethical behavior in a contest game. We vary …
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We present an experiment on strategic thinking and behavior of individuals and teams in one-shot normal-form games …. Besides making choices, decision makers have to state their first- and second-order beliefs. We find that teams play the Nash …
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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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This paper studies the impact of diversity in cognitive ability among members of a team on their performance. We … complex decision-making. We propose a model in which greater ability dispersion generates greater knowledge for a team, but … conduct a large field experiment in which teams start up and manage real companies under identical circumstances. Exogenous …
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regional accents? This paper reports a laboratory experiment where we address this question. Participants in our experiment …
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We use a simple, three-item test for cognitive abilities to investigate whether established behavioral biases that play a prominent role in behavioral economics and finance are related to cognitive abilities. We find that higher test scores on the Cognitive Reflection Test of Frederick (2005)...
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ethnic diversity on the performance of business teams using a randomized field experiment. We follow 550 students who set up … ethnic diversity has no effect on team performance in terms of business outcomes (sales, profits and profits per share …). However, if at least the majority of team members is ethnically diverse, then more ethnic diversity has a positive impact on …
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conflict or coordination cost) as well as "homophily" (people's inclination to bound with others with similar characteristics … is team additions had the same characteristics as the initial team members …
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top team diversity is amplified in the London city-region …A growing number of studies find linkages between workforce diversity and business performance, but key aspects of this … relationship remain unclear. First, within the firm, the role of 'top team' demography on firm outcomes is surprisingly little …
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temporary contract, while others are permanent members of the same team. In a laboratory experiment we analyze the cooperation …In organizations, some team members are assigned to a team for a predefined short period of time, e.g., as they have a … levels resulting from diverse teams, where some team members remain with a team and others are switching teams. Our results …
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