Many committees---juries, political task forces, etc.---spend time gathering costly information before reaching a decision. We report results from lab experiments focused on such information-collection processes. We consider decisions governed by individuals and groups and compare how voting...

Existing studies have investigated the environmental dividends of substituting high speed rail for other energy intensive vehicles from an engineering standpoint, but they have yet to explore the economic effects of high speed rail and the associated carbon emission reduction benefits. To fill...

Idea evaluators in organizations need to consider a multiplicity of audiences and stakeholders when evaluating ideas, which requires them to focus on these stakeholders' needs and take their perspectives. In this paper, we argue that framing of the idea evaluation task can be a powerful tool to...

We use a randomized controlled trial in Zambia to measure the economic impacts of house screening against the transmission of malaria. We focus on malaria prevalence rates, labor supply, and income, and consider individual and household level outcomes. The treatment group received house screens...

We examine the impact of CEOs’ early-life and career experiences on corporate investment efficiency in the Chinese economy. We identify two extraordinary events that are likely to underpin the formative experiences of CEOs, comprising of the economic reforms which commenced in 1978, and prior...

We investigate how well firms can collude with partial communication in comparison to full communication. We find that firms vary their communication strategies with different network structures. In the network with either isolated firms or full communication, more players send "pure promises”...