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This paper is concerned with the role of committees in collective decision-making processes in a world where agents … must be motivated to collect information. Committees improve the quality of decision-making by providing information and by … affect final decisions? Second, what is the optimal composition of a committee from the decision maker's point of view? As to …
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> This paper is concerned with the role of committees in collective decision-makingprocesses in a world where agents must be … motivated to collect information. Committees improvethe quality of decision-making by providing information and by coordinating … preferences of the committeemembers should be aligned to those of the decision maker. Members with similar preferences asthe …
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> This paper is concerned with the role of committees in collective decision-makingprocesses in a world where agents must be … motivated to collect information. Committees improvethe quality of decision-making by providing information and by coordinating … preferences of the committeemembers should be aligned to those of the decision maker. Members with similar preferences asthe …
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The monetary policy decision, as any other decision, is the product of a procedure assembling a lot of primary … information, but also what type of other ingredients contribute finally to a certain monetary policy decision. …
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Administration in organizations emerged as a specific field of inquiry for social sciences in the middle of the twentieth century. Herbert Simon has defined a program that allows social sciences to move from principles to concepts about action and action taking. Four main perspectives of...
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L'objectif de cet article est de reconsiderer la theorie des irréversibilités decisionnelles dans un cadre non …
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Time-inconsistency of no-bailout policies can create incentives for banks to take excessive risks and generate endogenous crises when the government cannot commit. However, at the outbreak of financial problems, usually the government is uncertain about their nature, and hence it may delay...
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cognitive neuroscience identify key processes in the human brain and shapes our understanding of decision-making. JEL …
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This paper provides a model of the market for news where profit-maximizing media outlets choose their editors from a population of rational citizens. The analysis identifies a novel mechanism of media bias: the bias in a media outlet's news reports is the result of the slanted endogenous...
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This paper presents a model and an experiment, both suggesting that wishful thinking is a pervasive phenomenon that aect decisions large and small. Agents in the model start out with state-dependent payos, and behave as if high-payo states are more likely. Subsequent choices maximize...
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