personality traits. -- gender ; group decision-making ; risk ; leadership ; experiments …

Using an experiment with incentivized decisions of groups in the economics laboratory, I investigate the effect of …: nationality, language, university degree and gender. I find that group decisions, when taken during face-to-face discussions … on risk taking is gender: risk taking is increasing in the number of male group members. …

-choice experiment, where payments are made either directly or in 3, 9, or 18 months after the experiment. We find that risk preference …

-free option less frequently. Finally, we document gender differences in investment behavior: groups of two female subjects choose …

principles of Expected Utility Theory (EUT) and of Portfolio Selection Theory (PST). The experiment is performed with individuals … providing additional risk that is not compensated by additional expected value. We find that the results of our experiment are …

We report a controlled laboratory experiment examining risk-taking and information aggregation in groups facing a … common risk. The experiment allows us to examine how subjects respond to new information, in the form of both privately …

making in teams. I find in an investment experiment that individual decisions with salient group membership are largely the …. -- individual behavior ; group membership ; team decision-making ; experiment …

We report an experiment examining risk taking and information aggregation in groups. Group members come to the table …